Jesus, help me. Nigerians, help me. My husband is in trouble – Florence George Nwaeke
The wife of the former Head of the Rivers State Civil Service, Mrs. Florence George Nwaeke, has asserted that her husband was forced to organize a press release in which he made damaging claims against Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers state who has been suspended from his position.
During a Friday news briefing, Nweke accused Fubara of ordering bombing of the state House of Assembly facility in 2023 to avoid impeachment by members supporting Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike.
He claimed to have seen Edison Ehie, a former Assembly leader who later became Fubara’s Chief of Staff, receive a bag of money to attack the Assembly Complex on Moscow Road in Port Harcourt.
In his resignation letter, which was sent last week, Nweke made the allegation that the suspended governor had planned to remove President Tinubu from office and had ordered the bombing of the state House of Assembly complex in 2023.
The distraught wife told journalists that she has been unable to get in touch with her husband since he departed Rivers for Abuja.
Florence said, “When he got to Abuja, he called that he had landed. I said, ‘Thank God’. The next thing I saw this night (Friday night): people were calling me and said he got an interview. I said, ‘What interview? Interview for what?’ Not until I saw things flying on the internet that he granted an interview. What happened? I said, ‘That is not my husband. That is not my husband.’
“So I sent him a message. I said, ‘Are you under duress?’ I sent him a message. I said, ‘Have they kidnapped you? Talk to me now. Why are you not talking to me?’.
“Oh, Jesus, help me. Nigerians, help me. My husband is in trouble. My husband is in trouble. My husband is in trouble. My husband is in trouble. Look at the message I sent to him. See the message I sent to him.
“Governor, help me. My husband is in trouble,” she said. “He is in trouble,”
Florence stated that her husband quit due to the fact that he was being pressured by certain individuals to sign documents that would indict Fubara.