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Reminds Governor Of How He Used Ipob Mob To Win 2015, 2019 Elections
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Says It's Illogical To Claim Same IPOB Which Attacked Amaechi in Foreign Land
Now Works For Him
Chief
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New
Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress,
APC highlighted that nothing has exposed most public officers in Nigeria than
the EndSARS protests and riots, and this seems most tragically true with the
helmsman in Rivers State, Gov Nyesom Wike. This is especially so because,
whereas other Governors have looked before leaping, he seems to leap before
looking.
Nothing
could have proved this assertion more true than his ban on protests only to
gleefully welcome the same protesters to Government House where he glowed in
the euphoria of someone who started the End-SARS campaign.
Next,
the same man who mocked his kinsman and Minister, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi for allegedly being mobbed overseas by the same IPOB is now turning
round to accuse a Rivers man of sponsoring IPOB. Many have thus wondered if Gov
Wike must call his former mentor’s name in every evil flying around Rivers
State to such an obviously embarrassing level to himself. This is the same IPOB
that stands against anything and everything North; everything Buhari; and
everything APC of which Amaechi symbolises.
Thus,
Wike’s recent calumnious and odoriferous outburst against the Transportation
Minister, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, as the proponent and financier of the
topsy-turvy and huge human and material destruction allegedly perpetrated by
members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been
described as a mountain of illusion merely palpitating in the web of
debacle.
Governor
Wike, had during a live interview on AIT on the fallout of the End SARS protest
and the report of mass killings of IPOB members in Oyigbo, a Local Government
Area in Rivers State, accused the Transportation Minister of sponsoring the
crisis that rocked the #EndSars protest in the troubled LGA and other violence
spots in Port Harcourt and other areas in the state, stressing that the
Minister is disturbed by his rising political profile.
Excerpt
from the reported speech of Gov. Wike on the AIT Program beamed live Monday, 2
November, 2020, reads: "I know where all this is coming from. They
think they can sponsor all sorts of rubbish against me. I know it is coming
from the Minister of Transportation. Why will he (Amaechi) not do that? He
thinks that I am rising politically, and he is doing everything to bring me
down. Everybody knows that. It is not hidden. I cannot change my
identity."
Referring
to the claim as a cocktaildestitute utterances, the party chief said Gov. Wike
may have been deceitfully immersed into a pool of egotistic make-believe by
attaching to himself a strange and exaggerated sense of self-importance
in his hilarious comment about his self-deluded 'rising political profile'.
"To
where is his political profile rising when his actions and programmes have
shattered the economy and general fortunes of the state?" Eze queried.
"I
salute his rising political profile which has earned the state the unemployment
capital of Nigeria; I thank him for instigating the menace of insecurity and
endangering the lives of Rivers people who now sleep with their two eyes widely
opened in the midst of his rising political profile; with Pensioners not
receiving their pensions, civil servants begging to be paid their salaries and
Rivers youths have been denied their due and their futures stocked in
limbo, yet, Wike brags about his rising political profile. One wonders where
his profile is rising to". Eze said.
Eze
reiterated that only idle minds will be bored by the said Wike's raising
political influence as it only exists in pages of newspapers and AIT TV but not
based on current political reality.
The
party stalwart posits that although the PDP Leadership has continued to
tolerate the excesses of Wike but expressed confidence that he will soon pay
for the very many embarrassments and shame he has brought to a party that was
once the best political party in Africa.
Eze
counselled Gov. Wike to desist from making nonsense of the exalted position of
a Governor and show some respects to the office he occupies. He said the
Governor could as well strive to acquire some skills in public speech-making so
as to improve his performance next time his application to appear on a national
TV scales through.
The
party chief said it pricks the conscience to learn that Gov. Wike, who once
served under Amaechi as Chief of Staff and was later recommended to be a
Minister by Amaechi will make such untoward, wicked and disparaging allegations
against his all-time benefactor.
Eze
wondered how Amaechi could have anything to do with a proscribed group when in
fact, he was a victim of their rampaging madness in 2018.
Eze
reminded Wike that Amaechi, an Igbo man by marriage (married to one of
the finest Igbo Ladies, Dame Judith Amaechi) is always entitled to discuss and promote
issues pertaining to the future and progress of the Igbos and to be accused of
having a hand in any criminal activity of any Igbo man or group is very
unfortunate and unacceptable.
Condemning
in strong terms the wanton destruction allegedly perpetrated by IPOB miscreants
in Oyigbo and other parts of Rivers State, Eze described as unacceptable the
attack on other innocent Igbos living in Rivers State and other parts of the
country by thugs and some security agents, adding that a majority of the Igbos
are peaceful, patriotic and hospital citizens and should not be victims of
miscarriage of justice.
Eze
called on Wike to resolve any issue he has with IPOB members which are the
creations of his insincerity and dishonesty, stressing that Amaechi was not
there when he engaged these fellows as part of his 2015 and 2019 election
rigging mercenaries. He said the powers Gov. Wike handed the IPOB members
during elections gave them the impetus to operate recklessly and his refusal to
keep to terms of their agreement gave rise to their uncontrolled
operation.
Igbo
traders at the Mile One and Ikoku spare parts markets are today under siege by
Wike who has suddenly feigned ignorance of how he dubiously instigated them
against the APC to win election. Today, Messiah 'Wike' is doing everything to
ensure that their businesses in Rivers have collapsed. Wike is systematically
doing this through many fronts.
Governor
Wike should try to leave Amaechi out of his self-inflicted and avoidable
political woes as I end this statement with a quote from one of the most
respected sons of Rivers State, Dr Jackson Omenazu who stated and I quote,
"Wike is a loose cannon. Amaechi uses good governance and leadership to
promote peace among Rivers people. But Wike uses bullying and crass
brigandage to ascend to power hence his restlessness. Amaechi has never
been known to associate with violent people nor have he ever supported demented
souls. We know ourselves in this state, we know those whose life style is
synonymous with violence"
