Florence Nwaeke, wife of a former Head of Service in Rivers State, George Nwaeke, has suggested that her husband was under duress during the interview in which he made allegations against suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
She was seen on a trending video calling for help over the whereabouts of her husband following his resignation.
Florence said she was afraid of the safety of her husband complaining that she could not reach him on phone.
She said someone asked him to come to Abuja and that she later saw her husband granting the interview.
She said: “When he got to Abuja, he called that he had landed. I said, ‘Thank God.”.
Claiming the interview was suspicious, she 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?’ This is the message I sent to him when I saw his interview online,” she said.
She continued: “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. I said, ‘Daddy, why? Were you in hostage?’ I said, ‘Why didn’t you talk to me?’ These are the messages I sent to him, but he didn’t reply to me. His numbers are not going through. Nigerians, help me! Nigerians, help me!”
Nwaeke earlier accused Fubara of plotting to back Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed, for the 2027 presidency and encouraging militants to attack oil facilities.
But Florence was also seen speaking to Fubara in a telephone, begging him to help her husband.
“Governor, help me. My husband is in trouble. He is in trouble,” the woman said, claiming the husband resigned under duress.
The Governor demanded to know from the woman why her husband could go to the extent of cooking up what he described as lies against him.
“Despite all I have done for you people, is this how you will pay me back,” Fubara queried, but later promised to do something about the woman’s request.
“All I know is that in this life, if you do good you will reap it, if you do bad you will reap,” the Governor said.
