“Wike’s very best,
can never equal, not to talk about surpassing Amaechi’s sterling, innovative, radical,
trend-setting and absolutely revolutionary records as Rivers State Governor.
Take it or leave it, Amaechi remains a hero of global reckoning.”
Wike and Amaechi: Who’s Satanic and
Needs Psychiatric Attention? An Insider’s Input
Written
By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze
Preamble
The urge and need to embark upon
this treatise titled, “WIKE AND AMAECHI: WHO’S SATANIC AND NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC
ATTENTION? AN INSIDER’S INPUT’ became compelling and imperative when I read
some of these sad and unfortunate headlines in the media – “Amaechi is a
Lucifer, psychiatric patient – Wike”, “Amaechi is
Diabolic, He is A Devil – Wike“ and “Amaechi Is Satan, He
And His Boys Should Go For Psychiatric Test – Nyesom Wike” – all of
which were attributed to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State recently about
his mentor, predecessor and benefactor, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former
Governor of Rivers State and incumbent Federal Minister of Transportation.
According to Wike in his unguided
outbursts, “You are all aware that the Acting President came and
held a stakeholders’ meeting with all of us, irrespective of affiliations. Even
the Minister of Transportation was there. But, as you know, a chameleon will always be a chameleon
and you know Satan will never sleep. Lucifer will always stay awake. Anywhere Satan sees light; he will always want to turn it into
darkness. Just because the Acting President decided to stay in Rivers state, Lucifer went on rampage. I had no problem with the
fact that Prof. Osinbajo wanted to hold a meeting with his party members. They
are all members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), but I was surprised
that a meeting they tagged APC stakeholders meeting turned out to be something
else. They left what they gathered for and started making demands for the
people of Rivers State. Who sent them? If I were them, they should go for psychiatric test. I have never been treated by a psychiatrist. I don’t even have one as my doctor, but
when your personal doctor is a psychiatrist,
then you should know there is a problem. I don’t want to talk about what
his (Amaechi) boys (Dakuku Peterside and Magnus Abe) were saying but, I was
happy for one thing. I was happy that the Minister of Transportation could not
believe his eyes when he came into Government House. It was like a paradise.
When he came to the Presidential Lodge, he couldn’t believe it and he entered
my car, my BMW 7 Series with the Acting President”. What a comic
and unfortunate statement from a fellow occupying the exalted position of a
Governor of a State?
According to records, let me explain
what prompted the need of the meeting of APC stakeholders with Prof Osinbajo:
Wike and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders that gathered to act
as if they were the only recognised organ to speak for Rivers State people
ensured that the APC stakeholders were denied entry to the Rivers State Government
House, during the assumed stakeholders’ meeting with the Acting President, Prof
Osinbajo, coupled with the fact that APC’s banners and signposts welcoming the
Acting President to Rivers State were all destroyed by Wike and his boys.
Under this situation, one can only
applaud the doggedness, sagacity and wisdom of Rt. Hon Amaechi in initiating
the APC stakeholders’ meeting with the Acting President, who is of the APC
extraction at, least, to ensure that the positive side of the demands of Rivers
State people are tabled and discussed. Most of the needs of the Niger Delta
region tabled before the Acting President in both forums were needs that Wike,
in collaboration with some of these misguided PDP leaders, killed during the
tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan. I will discuss this further later
in this treatise.
Although one can’t fathom why the
meeting by Prof Osinbajo with Rivers’ APC stakeholders could be a reason for
Wike to berate his mentor and benefactor with such harsh and derogatory
statement, calling him Satan, diabolical and
psychiatrist, but sadly, this is not the first time that Wike will
utilise any opportunity to abuse and run down Amaechi before his cohorts,
associates and the general public. At times, one wonders if Wike was actually
prepared for governance or he just found himself in the government house,
unprepared and at a loss as what to do, except on how to run down Amaechi for
recommending him to former President Jonathan as a minister of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
For Wike to call Amaechi - his
mentor, benefactor and whose influence in his life is not in doubt – Satan is not any issue that can be swept under
the carpet, just like that. It is probably on this that Israelmore Ayivor stated, “Do not rush to judge
someone unless his/her fruits reveal the truth. However, don't forget; mostly,
it's not the fault of the tree to produce bitter fruits. Sometimes, the soil
determines that; blame the source! Deal with the soil! Don't deal with the
tree! Other trees are there that the same soil can influence! Don't deal with
your enemy, deal with the Satan that sponsors them”. It is based on the
need to reveal the truth or otherwise of Wike’s stand that prompted this
research, of unearthing between Wike and Amaechi, who is actually satanic and
psychiatric.
Wike and his cohorts copied the
speech of Amaechi on why he joined APC, to present to the Acting President
during his visit to Rivers State.
Reading through what Wike and his
cohorts presented as the needs of Niger Delta region before Osinbajo, I don’t
know whether to cry or to laugh at the characters of our so-called leaders from
Rivers State. Read through - what Amaechi stated at the height of his
persecution in the hands of Wike and some of these funny PDP leaders in 2014 -
and then judge for yourself why these people can’t be said to be serious minded
fellows. The desperation of the PDP leadership to completely destroy Amaechi
led to his departure, alongside six other PDP governors, to form the New PDP,
with five of them later joining the opposition party, APC, to dislodge PDP from
the centre. I was privileged to be the spokesperson of this group then. But let
us hear what Amaechi said, which Wike and his misguided group shamelessly
reproduced and presented before Prof Osinbajo as the needs of Niger Delta
region: Explaining why he joined APC, Amaechi said:
“Unfortunately, recent events within
the PDP have given me reason to reconsider our collective interest as people of
the South-south and, indeed, as Rivers people. At various times, as the one
whom you gave your mandate, I had cause to complain about the marginalisation
of our state and our people, despite our huge contribution to the national
coffers and our unflinching commitment and support for the ruling PDP. While
the political and economic importance of Rivers State cannot be contested, we
continue to hold the shorter end of the stick.
A few instances may suffice: Our
demand that the Federal Government return oil wells belonging to Rivers State
to us has gone unheeded and been treated with levity under this administration.
Rather, our oil wells have been ceded to Bayelsa, Abia and Akwa Ibom states.
Even after we got a judgment that the oil wells were wrongly ceded to Akwa Ibom
State and should be returned to us; only dry wells that were no longer
producing oil were returned.
In the specific case of the
Soku oil wells, despite a decision reached that the monies should remain in an
escrow account till all matters concerning it are resolved, the Federal
Government continues to pay neighbouring Bayelsa State the revenues meant
for Rivers State, in a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. It is,
indeed, noteworthy that we have made several representations formally and
informally on this matter.
A second instance is the total
absence of federal presence in Rivers State. The ‘National Good Governance
Tour’ provided a good opportunity for the Federal Government to showcase its
presence in Rivers State. The tour, if nothing else, proved that there was not
much to show in a state that is the cash-cow of the federation. The East-West
Road remains abandoned, work has been deliberately slow on the Port Harcourt
International Airport, the third busiest airport in the country, while all
airports started along with it have long been completed and commissioned. The
Bonny-Bomu Road that leads to the only functional liquefied natural gas project
remains uncompleted. In the midst of all these, our administration went ahead
to fix federal roads to the tune of N103 billion. Several representations and
letters after, not one kobo has been repaid. The Federal Government is actively
discouraging investments in Rivers State.”
Let me reiterate that apart from all
the listed attacks against Niger Delta region because of his hatred for
Amaechi, Dr Jonathan took the proposed biggest dockyard in Africa meant for
Bonny in Rivers State to Lagos State. When he lost the election, he revoked the
project that was already 40 per cent done. He equally stopped the
implementation of the cleaning up of Ogoni land, renovation of the Port
Harcourt International Airport as well as repair of major federal roads in the
state. To Wike and his misguided Rivers State PDP, Dr Jonathan is the hero of
Niger Delta, while Amaechi is a villain!
What Amaechi is to Wike
To understand this article better,
the need to explain the relationship between Amaechi and Wike at this juncture
becomes imperative. As a close associate and one who has worked under the two
leaders, I am ably qualified to speak on the two. Both are of the Ikwerre
extraction in Rivers State. From 1999 to 2007, Amaechi was the Speaker of
Rivers State House of Assembly; an office he used to lobby and influence the
election of Chief Nyesom Wike as two-term executive chairman of Obio-Akpor
Local Government Area, one of the richest LGs in Nigeria. While Amaechi was the
chairman, Council of Speakers’ Forum, Wike was chairman of the local government
chairmen’s forum in Nigeria.
From 2007 to 2015, Amaechi was the
Governor of Rivers State, with Chief Wike as his chief of staff from 2007 to
2011. Besides, Wike was the director-general of the re-election campaign
organisation of the then governor Amaechi, which he executed satisfactorily. As
a result, Amaechi nominated him as a minister to represent Rivers in the
Federal Cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan.
From the above, it should be very
clear that Amaechi was the leader of his political dynasty, with Wike assisting
him, accordingly. But reading and observing what is coming from Wike against
his erstwhile boss and mentor, one may not look for a better definition than
what David Levithan said: “It was a mistake, you said.
But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” Reading
what Wike is doing to rubbish and ridicule Amaechi, after all that he did to
assist him in his political life, Amaechi would be regretting the very day he
set his eyes on this man that has turned a monster, ready to devour him.
Contrary to the lies in Wike’s
interview with the Sun Newspapers, where he stated that he never wanted to be
Governor of Rivers State, but the revelation that his ambition to succeed
Amaechi as the governor of Rivers State actually started from his days as chief
of staff to Amaechi maybe shocking to most political watchers. But the fact
remains that while Amaechi was busy providing dividends of democracy to the
people, Wike, on the other hand, was busy undermining him and using the
connections and goodwill of the Rivers State Government not only to station his
men in strategic positions in government, but to empower most of them
financially through award of contracts, initiation and other means. He tested
the ground of his ambition when he was appointed director-general for the
re-election of Amaechi as governor of Rivers State in 2011. He ensured that only
his men were appointed to strategic fields to serve as key mobilisers at the
grassroots’ level.
By the time he was appointed
minister of state in the Ministry of Education – based on the recommendation of
Amaechi to Dr Jonathan – Wike went further with his gubernatorial ambition plot
by forming the Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI), a political pressure
group he used to deceive the public, that it was formed to assist in the
re-election of then President Jonathan. But, in fact, the outfit was formed to
pursue his gubernatorial ambition. He used the outfit to formally recruit his
foot soldiers for the battle ahead. This body was heavily financed and
motivated, and its presence was established in all the constituencies of Rivers
State.
It was this group that he used to
dislodge over 11 key Peoples Democratic Party members that wanted to contest
the 2015 governorship election under the PDP platform. Those that wanted to
play games were properly beaten up and molested at the party’s national secretariat
at Abuja. Before this time, Wike, based on political exigency, tactfully
suppressed his gubernatorial ambition from public view. Instead, he offered
himself as a tool to spearhead the political battle between Jonathan and
Amaechi. He gave everything within him to execute this, with the PDP ticket as
a target.
Plot against Amaechi
Genesis of the creation of and
manufacture of the in-fight with Amaechi, by Jonathan and Wike, stemmed from
claims and rumour developed and spread around by members of their camp to win
the hearts of Niger Delta people to their devious plot. That is, that the then
Governor Amaechi will contest the office of the president or vice-president,
with a candidate from the northern part of the country in 2015, thereby
truncating the second-term ambition of President Jonathan who is from the same
geo-political zone (South-south). This strategy sold like wild fire in the
region. And, based on this evil assumption, Jonathan, using Wike as a tool,
created the type of Rivers State and Niger Delta region where lives make no
meaning, and the economy of the nation is being destroyed
Hostility by Jonathan, Wike against
Amaechi
Despite Amaechi’s show of love to
former President Jonathan, in order to humiliate and annihilate him politically,
the following steps, among others, were adopted: A private jet of the Rivers
State Government was grounded for no just cause; the PDP structure in Rivers
State was taken away from Amaechi; his election as chairman of Nigeria
Governors’ Forum (NGF), which was duly certified and widely acknowledged, was
annulled by President Jonathan and his cohorts; he also supported the
destruction of the once vibrant NGF by supporting 16 governors against 19.
Besides, on May 27, 2013 Amaechi was suspended from the PDP, a party he so much
loved and spent so much to build. They followed this up with his expulsion.
Indeed, if not for divine providence, he would have been illegally impeached by
five legislators -(Chinda, Kelechi Godspower Nwogu (Omuma), Evans Bapakaye Bipi
(Ogu/Bolo), Martins Amaewhule (Obio/Akpor I) and Victor Ihunwo (Port Harcourt
III) - who were loyal to the then minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike,
in a House of 32 members. Jonathan withdrew the security details attached to
Amaechi. As if these were not enough, the ex-president used state power to
prevent Amaechi, then a sitting governor, from reaching Ekiti, in the
South-western part of the country, to support the re-election of Dr Kayode
Fayemi, because they were in the opposition then. Above all, a Police
Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mbu, was posted to Rivers State to haunt, harass,
torment, insult and abuse Amaechi publicly.
Wike and Amaechi, who is satanic,
diabolical and psychiatric? Be the Judge!
Chief Wike has shamelessly proved that
his one single futile project: is to run down his predecessor, mentor and
benefactor, former governor Amaechi, which he has carried out so religiously
since he was erroneously declared the Governor of Rivers State by the Supreme
Court at the expense of over hundreds souls of Rivers State people who were
slaughtered in a bid to install him. Observers of the politics of Rivers State
could have noted that since his assumption of office as the Governor of Rivers
State on May 29, 2015, he has only emphasised and embarked on carrying out this
sinister single agenda by throwing caution to the wind and there is nothing in
the book of propaganda, dirty politics, blackmail and falsification of records
that Wike has not employed and deployed in his desperation to drag Amaechi’s
name to the mud. Apart from commissioning a commission of inquiry with the sole
agenda: investigate, condemn and find Amaechi guilty and, if possible, arrest
and imprison him. And to his chagrin, this kangaroo commission could still not
found Amaechi culpable or wanting in all aspects of its investigations. Wike
went ahead in his frustration to issue a white paper indicting Amaechi of
corruption, without any recourse to the findings of the panel of inquiry set up
in this regard.
Wike, through the then infamous CP
Mbu, heartlessly dispersed 13,000 teachers who gathered to receive their
employment letters, aided the five renegade lawmakers to attempt the
impeachment of the then speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, barricaded
and sealed the State Assembly for one legislative year, and even blocked the
access road to Government House on one occasion, preventing Amaechi and his
visitors from using the road. Wike, with the backing of the then First Lady
Patience Jonathan, ordered his thugs to stone state governors who visited
Rivers in solidarity with Amaechi, for the humiliation he suffered under the
watchful eyes of then-President Jonathan. Wike later used the Police and the
Army to forcefully break into the newly-constructed stadium, just to prove his
powers.
Wike’s desperation to drag Amaechi’s
name in the mud, in order to frustrate his nomination or appointment as a
minster, made him (Wike) to sponsor a satanic documentary on Amaechi, aired on
Africa Independent Television (AIT). This documentary was part of Wike’s
propaganda war against Amaechi, for which he earmarked billions of naira in his
plot to destroy the person and character of Amaechi. Other propaganda tools
planned and deployed during this period, in the war against Amaechi, include
sponsored publications such as advertorials, columns, editorials and Op-Ed
articles in major international, national and local print media; sponsored
personality discussion programmes in the electronic media and sponsored special
documentaries on television and radio through independent groups and
organisations.
Other insidious plots by Wike to
undermine Amaechi include commissioning a team made up of persons within and
outside Rivers State to initiate, formulate and contrive false, damaging
reports bordering on alleged corrupt practices by Amaechi, which were
circulated to individuals and institutions within Nigeria and abroad, with a
view to damaging the character and rising profile of Amaechi; in order to
blackmail and put pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari not to appoint him
into his government. These cooked reports, to the shock of many Nigerians, was
sent to the Senate and presented through one misguided Senator Thompson Sekibo,
which the Senate referred to its Ethics Committee. This caused the delay in
Amaechi’s screening and confirmation as a minister. Amaechi has through both
the immediate past Secretary to the Rivers State Government, George Feyi,
and the Commissioner for Finance, Dr Chamberlain Peterside, and others denied
any form of corruption against him by Wike and his cohorts.
Wike did not stop at these, but went
further to set up Justice George Omereji Panel, to investigate the
administration of ex-governor Amaechi. Though the panel did not found any
wrong-dealing, or corrupt practices by Amaechi, Wike went ahead to issue a
white paper indicting him of embezzling the sum of N53 billion. How on earth
can someone in his right senses describe funds withdrawn with the approval of
the legislature and spent as prescribed by the state budget to be missing?
Wike, in his desperation to stop Amaechi’s appointment as a minister, resorted
to dancing naked in the market place.
But, as God will have it, and
contrary to the expectations of Governor Wike and his gang of ingrates, their
ferocious campaign to blackmail, disparage and portray Amaechi as a very
corrupt person unfit to be appointed as a minister of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria failed to achieve the desired objective. On September 30, 2015
President Buhari went ahead to list and submit Amaechi’s name, along with 20
other Nigerians, as ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.
And to the shock and chagrin of Wike
and his cohorts, the Senate, after three sittings on the screening of the
ministerial nominees, screened Amaechi on October 22, 2015 and formally
confirmed him on October 29, 2015. He was subsequently sworn-in with the 35
other ministers on Wednesday November 11, 2015, by President Buhari, who as a
further mark of confidence in the ‘Lion of Niger
Delta’ assigned to him the strategically important Ministry of
Transportation.
What President Donald Trump of USA
and Senator Modu Sheriff, PDP national chairman said about Wike:
When Trump, a world political leader
and current President of the United States was told about one Wike from Rivers
State, he sighed and in demonstration for his repugnance for most of the
political actors in Rivers State expressly stated: “One of the key
problems today is that politics is such a disgrace; good people don’t go into
government.”
While to Sheriff, “I will
engineer a restructuring of the PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose
cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in
the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their
crude and godless politics, which is at variance with the principles upon which
our founding fathers built our great party. We must find a way to sieve things
so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of
responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country. We
must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and
Fayose has brought our party, making Nigerians to mistake PDP as a training
ground for thugs. I advice Fayose to resign immediately as the chairman of PDP
Governors Forum, a thug cannot lead our governors. That is the urgent task we
have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take
us seriously.”
Amaechi reacts
Ameachi said his sin against many
people in the South-south and the former president was supporting a Muslim
candidate from the north. His words: “Our offence was supporting a
Muslim. Not only that, our offence was supporting a northerner. What they
failed to realise is that money does not know ethnic group; the stealing the
current president is fighting cut across the whole nation; it is not the
South-south people that stole the money, every part of the country stole that
money. But it was under the supervision of a South-south president, and we are
watching.”
However, one thing Wike and his
strategists fail to understand is that President Buhari is already aware of
their desperation to victimise Amaechi, and also knows the politics of Rivers
State as he knows his fingers. Therefore, their evil plot is an exercise in
futility.
To throw more light on the level of
betrayal by Wike, Amaechi – on February 15, 2014 at the thanksgiving
service held in honour of Senator Magnus Abe (who had to be flown to London for
further medical treatment) in Bera, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers
State, after surviving the January 12, 2015 bullet shot by policemen during the
inauguration of the pro-Amaechi’s Save Rivers Movement (SRM), at Obio/Akpor LG
chapter – said: “Wike used the names of his children to swear that
he would not betray me. He told the congregation that a notable cleric earlier
prophesied to him not to nominate Wike as minister, that he would betray him at
last. I believe in prophecies. Apostle Suleiman said I should not nominate
Nyesom Wike as a minister; that he would not only betray me, but would try to
destroy me. When I confronted Nyesom Wike, in the presence of Chima Chinye, he
swore with his children that he would not betray me. Any man that swears with
the lives of his children is a wicked man. He does not appreciate those
children at all. People who do not have character, you don’t give them
political power. Nyesom Wike, Dakuku Peterside and Magnus Abe are among those I
helped that passed through our friendship.”
Amaechi added that he intervened and
assisted Wike to secure second term tenure, when the people of Obio/Akpor Local
Government Area vowed to deny him a second term as chairman of the council over
alleged disrespect for elders, arrogance and poor performance. “What is his
political history? Without the rest, God did them through me?”
Rivers PDP Affirms Amaechi’s ‘Sins’
Supporting the attack against
Amaechi, Rivers PDP, through Mr. Felix Obuah, the factional PDP state chairman,
in a press statement stated: “We are, however, shocked that Amaechi,
who has shamelessly brought so much insult to the people of Niger Delta, is
playing a major role in pushing out the son of the Niger Delta as the president
of this country, in preference for his new-found love, and killer of his
kinsmen (no thanks to the military invasion of Rivers State) will, against all
odds, be nursing the ambition to launch a come-back to the region, after
inflicting so much pains and agony on the people.”
The Rivers APC, through its State Publicity
Secretary, Chief Chris Finebone, reacted as follows: Much more than that,
the statement, in some ways, underscores the nexus between the hurting of 2015
election to wailing wailers, the spate of destruction of oil installations by
the Avengers and other restive youths in the Niger Delta, and the recent
blowing up of Shell trunk line to Bonny Export Terminal. Little wonder the PDP
in Rivers State fails to see the need for peace, which the Abuja meeting was
meant to bring about in the Niger Delta. Is anyone still wondering those behind
the ongoing bombing and bursting of pipelines in the Niger Delta? It is sad
that an individual that sold his soul to Satan and connived with Wike to steal
a political party structure in broad daylight could muster the courage to talk
about betrayal. What betrayal can be more than that exhibited by a man that was
shot and left to die, but was rescued and flown abroad to save his life. The
same man turned around later to bite the hand that God used to save him.
Indeed, Obuah should not forget to tell his children the true story of his
miserable life.”
Who’s Amaechi?
Amaechi is an enigma that defies
description. His erstwhile deputy, Engr Tele Ikuru, who seems to know him
better than most of us, tried to give an insight into who this man is when,
during the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court judgement that brought
Amaechi to power, stated: “Today, we have come to celebrate a resourceful
leader, a dogged fighter, a political enigma, a change agent, people defender,
transformer, catalyst, trailblazer, phenomenon of our time, His Excellency, the
Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the executive Governor of Rivers State. A
leader whose word you can take to the bank. A trusted friend and ally, a man
who stands by his friends and confidants, both in good times and in times of
difficulties and challenges. A man of conscience who does not hide under the
veil of circumstances to betray his friends and allies; a compassionate leader
whose love for the development of the state and its people has no parallel. A
sincere and honest leader, who rather than cart away the commonwealth of Rivers
people entrusted to his care, has diligently applied it to the development of
the state to the admiration of the true Rivers people and even his traducers. A
visionary leader who knows and sees his people first.” I don’t know if
any other person can beat this definition of the enigma known as Amaechi.
To Victor Nwokocha, a
renowned social commentator, “Wike’s very best, can never
equal, not to talk about surpassing Amaechi’s sterling, innovative, radical,
trend-setting and absolutely revolutionary records as Rivers State Governor.
Take it or leave it, Amaechi remains a hero of global reckoning”.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I am counselled by
Isaiah 33:1 “Woe to you, O destroyer, While you were not destroyed;
And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him As
soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; As soon as you cease to
deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.”; and
by Michael Bassey Johnson who
stated: “When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the
trick of karma.”
Finally, Senator Abe, representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District,
summarised this treatise when he described Wike as uncouth in public speaking,
and his comments as embarrassing to every Rivers man. Reacting to a statement
credited to Governor Wike, who described his predecessor, the Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi as Lucifer,
Satan and chameleon, Abe said such foul
language ought not to come from a governor of a state, despite their political
differences, although the governor has a history of incivility in public
speaking, for the fact that he is a governor should make him weigh his words,
the import and the connotation to his image, before speaking. It was unfair for
the governor to call the minister unprintable names, for accompanying the
Acting President to Government House, Port Harcourt. But if Wike should refer
to Senator Abe and Dr Dakuku-Peterside as Amaechi’s boys, he (Wike) should also
refer to himself as Amaechi’s boy, because he is what he is today by virtue of
serving Hon Amaechi, as it was on that strength that he became a local
government chairman, chief of staff and, later, appointed a Minister of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
I have nothing else to
say than to ask the reader to decide who, among Wike and Amaechi, is satanic
and needs a psychiatric physician.
