The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has narrated how former Senator for the Cross River Central Senatorial District, Sandy Onor, endured several challenges due to their association.
Speaking over the weekend during the former lawmaker’s 60th birthday celebration in Abuja, the Minister lamented that Onor lost so many opportunities for standing with him.
The minister recalled how Sandy was blocked from lucrative appointments because he (Wike) supported the former lawmaker’s governorship ambition.
He disclosed that when President Bola Tinubu established the South South Development Commission (SSDC), he suggested that the chairmanship of the Commission go to Onor
He said, “I remember the time of NDDC; I called Sandy, and somebody’s name was proposed. Because I supported him for governorship, they blocked it, and I said, ‘Don’t bother yourself; what will be, will be.’
“Now, the president, in his magnanimity, established the South South Development Commission (SSDC). The chairmanship of that commission was for Rivers State. I said, ‘Look, this my friend has done well, I will make the sacrifice, let it go to Cross River State, and he (Senator Sandy) should be the one.’
“But the state said they should remove it from him, and I said, ‘If you’re removing it, I will take it back.”
