A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC) and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party, nPDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has blasted the River State Governor, Nyesom Wike over his comment against the ruling APC.
Recall that Wike, on Tuesday, August 30th, 2022, during the commissioning of the Ogbunabali Sand-filled Area in Port Harcourt, said that he and his team were busy destroying the structure of the Rivers APC with his numerous project.
According to Wike, “Some of you, those you rate, you won’t even buy them for a naira. At the appropriate time, I will tell you who they are; the kind of characters we are talking about – people will speak here today, and tomorrow, they will say a different thing. I begin to wonder is it this leader that spoke to me last night? It is very unfortunate. Wike and his team are busy here bringing down all structures of APC, providing dividends of democracy. In your own state, you are only talking about Wike."
In his response via a statement made available to CEOAFRICA on Thursday 8th September, Eze said that Governor Wike has no capacity to bring down APC in Rivers state.
He said the Governor had failed in several attempts to bring the party down, and will continue to fail, as the party is an indissoluble structure.
According to Eze, "It is laughable to see the Governor deploy very flamboyant claims as a gimmick to sway Presidential candidates and political lobbyists to continue to see him afloat the waters of political relevance ahead of 2023 elections.”
"It beats one’s imagination to comprehend the parameter used by Governor Nyesom Wike that gave him the deceptive conclusion and false impression that he is either destroying or capable of destroying the APC Structure in Rivers State.”
"It will amount to gross disappointment for the Governor to bank on the emptiness of the irrelevant and politically worthless former APC members whom he bought over to his side after they were swayed by his cash gifts running into millions of Naira, to destroy the Rivers APC, noting that the departure of those former APC members has very little or no negative impact on the stability of the party in the state.”
"The fact that the Governor used some political jobbers who marauded as party men to scuttle the chances of APC in the elections of 2015 and 2019 should not give him courage to think that same regrettable mistakes will ever be allowed to happen in 2023.”
"Those who left the APC are moles planted by Wike and what happened is simply that he took them back to his fold formally to show them appreciation for constituting nuisance to the progress of the party in the state and that does not qualify as defection because they were not part of the progressives in the first instance.”
“Are you counting that these elements rejoining you in order to receive their pay for aiding you to continue to ruin the economy and future of Rivers State is what gives you the impression that you are destroying the APC Structure? If the answer is in the affirmative, then your stand becomes laughable as it doesn't in any way portray that APC in Rivers State has been decimated.”
"By retrieving some of these elements who have, by their actions, lost political relevance,as far as politics is concerned, in Rivers state, you have only succeeded in making the Rivers state APC structure stronger and well-positioned to send you and your funny group out from the Brick House and salvage the state from her present sorry state.”
"It is regrettable that God gave you a unique privilege to write your name in gold but see what you have done to yourself; instead of being a governor, you turned yourself into a laughing stock, an entertainer and Nigeria’s best government comedian. I don't know if the elders amongst those that you entertain find time to counsel you on your rating in the eyes of the world.”
'Today, instead of improving on what your predecessors have achieved for the state, you only succeeded in taking the state many years backwards in her drive to join other developed economies.”
"What Wike has failed to understand is that ‘Everybody leaves the ATM once it stops dispensing cash’. Once you are no longer in position to misuse Rivers state’s funds in currying favour and buying those that are purchasable, you will find out if truly those that are taking selfie with you are truly in love with your style of governance. It is matter of few months and your eyes will be clear.”
“I can now understand what one of the big fishes you feel that you have captured told me, ‘Eze, what Wike is dishing out to the public uncontrollably is Rivers’ money and we are sons and daughters of Rivers state and are entitled to those funds; so, if it means taking selfie with Wike to get our own portion of the fund then we will join him until such a time it becomes imperative for us to collectively join hands together to salvage the state’. If this is the stand of most of these political actors, we will send more of them to you.”
"Seriously, how do you crumble a party structure that has members of the federal lawmakers, a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, an ambassador and persons like Rt. Hon. ChibuikeRotimiAmaechi andDrDakukuAdolPeterside, who recently emptied the PDP Structure in the local government area of your imposed gubernatorial candidate, a party with the likes of Pastor Tonye Cole, Ambassador Ngofa, Hon. Ojukaye, Prof Ugboma, DrAsita, Chief EmekeBeke, Hon. Brown Onari, Dr Innocent Barikor, DrNdubuisiNwankwo, Hon. Ike Chinwo, Dame AleruchiCookeyGham, Hon. Dave Okumgba, DrSokonte Davies, Hon. Henry Halliday, Hon. Barr. Forgiven Amachree, Hon. BiokpomaboAwara, LadyObyNdukwe, Mrs. Beatrice AmobiDappa, Mrs. OpemUdose, GbaratoBaridakara, DarlingtonNwauju, Sam-Sam Etetegwung, Hon. Douglas Wa-SeriteDodiyi Manuel, Barr. Mrs Winnie Morganson amongst other top party chieftains, stakeholdersand thousands of credible personalities that you cannotpurchase?”
“Eze wishes to know which political party the Governor is dumping these political commodities he has been purchasing from APC. Is it PDP that is no longer existing in Rivers state, which the key strongholds have deserted or is Wike unaware that Senator Lee Maeba, Sir Celestine Omehia, Rt Hon. Austin Opara, Prince UcheSecondus, Senator George Thompson Sekibo, DrAbiyeSekibo, former Minister of Transportation, Hon. ChinyereIgweh, including his former boss Rt. Hon. ChibuikeRotimiAmaechi have all deserted him? So why plotting to crumble APC when he has failed to strengthen or keep his crumbling party structure intact and cohesive?”
"Eze counsels the Governor to continue to deceive the general public as if he is the sole determinant of how Rivers state and her people will vote in the 2023 general elections, as Nigerians will come to know,in the next few weeks, that the so called PDP in Rivers state is just an empty structure without any sound political leader.
"Eze expresses happiness over the untoward statement of Wike that while he is destroying the APC structure in the state some funny leaders of the party are hobnobbing and encouraging him in his weightless destructive acts. He assured that what most people fail to understand is that 2019 is not 2023, noting that Rivers’ people have learnt lessons and are now ever ready to take on Wike and his conscienceless followers.”
