Stanbic IBTC Bank founder, Atedo Peterside, has criticised Senate President, Godswill Akpabio’s behaviour at funeral of the late Access Bank CEO, Herbert Wigwe in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, tahging it self-centred, insensitive and in poor state.
The Senate President had come under fire on Saturday, March 9 for tackling Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, over his statement at the funeral. The governor had asked politicians who attended the funeral the essence of their struggle and killing for power.
Governor Fubara had been quoted to have said:
“What is this struggle all about? You want to kill, you want to bury, what is it all about? This is a man, he’s not a politician. He made his money through us, our investments. He had the world in his palm financially. He controls even the political classes. But today, with all that [financial] power, couldn’t control life.
Senator Akpabio who was displeased with the governor’s statement had clapped back, saying that if there was nothing in the struggle for politics, the governor should quit his office.
In reaction to the current debacle, Peterside had in a post on his official X page (formerly Twitter) said that it was insensitive of the Senate President to originally complain that Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, received greater applause than he did.
The Stanbic IBTC Bank founder also berated Akpabio for requesting for the people at the funeral to join him in consoling Wigwe’s wife, who was lying dead in one of the three caskets in their front.
He had posted:
“For the record, I was among those who found the Senate President’s comments at the Wigwe Family Funeral in PH to be in poor taste.“Political jibes at a solemn Combined Funeral? Methinks that was self-centred, uncalled for & totally insensitive.” The post partly read.
