Businessman, Atedo Peterside has taken a swipe at Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over what he described as ‘’insensitive and self-centred’ comments the Senate President made at the funeral of the former bank chief, Herbert Wigwe.
On Saturday, March 9, the funeral service of the Wigwes was conducted at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Isiokpo in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
While speaking at the event, Governor Fubara 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 has the world in his palm financially. He controls even the political classes. But today, with all the power financially, couldn’t control life.
Is it not enough today to ask ourselves why are we struggling? Why are we not making an impact in the life of our people? Please, political class, let’s go home with that question, and be answering it in our minds, and reflecting it in what we do.”
Reacting to the governor’s comment, Akpabio said if Fubara believed there was nothing to the political struggle, then he should withdraw from the acclaimed struggle.
The Senate President said
“We’re not going to cry in one day alone, we’ll cry so many days. When you look at the university, you will cry. When you pass through his personal house and edifice, you will cry. Any of the Access Bank branches worldwide, whether the one in Dubai, or whether the one in Kenya or anywhere, you will cry. The children that he touched, those that he sent to school and the lives he touched, when they are talking about it and they mention his name, you will cry.
Then you will ask yourself, just like Governor Fubara said, what is the struggle all about? Your excellency, Governor Fubara, if there is nothing in the struggle, don’t struggle.”
Reacting to Akpabio’s comment, Atedo in a post shared on X this morning, said the Senate President’s comment was in poor taste.
‘’ 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. He began by lamenting that @PeterObi received greater applause than he (Akpabio) got & later told us to join him in consoling the widow who was lying in one of the 3 caskets in front of him. Jokes? Political jibes at a solemn Combined Funeral? Methinks that was self-centred & totally insensitive”
Watch a video of both men speaking at the funeral below…