{"id":325,"date":"2023-11-01T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/?p=325"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:12:31","slug":"fubara-i-need-my-base-to-remain-politically-relevant-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fubara-i-need-my-base-to-remain-politically-relevant-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Fubara: I need my base to remain politically relevant \u2013 Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said he is politically irrelevant without his base.<\/h4>\n<p>Wike said once he loses his base as a politician, he has lost his relevance politically.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor of Rivers State said no amount of calumny levelled against him would make him lose sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving South-South leaders in his office on Tuesday in Abuja, Wike said the right thing must be done.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike: \u201cAll of us want to be politically relevant; all of us want to maintain our political structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it not your political structure? Will you allow anybody to just cut you out immediately? Everybody has a base. If you take my base, am I not politically irrelevant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Wike and the Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara is believed to have gone sour.<\/p>\n<p>This led to some lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly moving to impeach Fubara.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers who moved to impeach Fubara are said to be Wike\u2019s loyalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said he is politically irrelevant without his base. Wike said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,105,33],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-fubara","tag-rivers","tag-wike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}