The defeated 2015 Rivers State APC Governorship Candidate, Mr Dakuku Peterside is a political comedian, who is skilled in the art of political hide and seek.
This is a politician who had the privilege of being the Commissioner of Works during the glorious era of excellent excess crude, but achieved nothing with his political godfather, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. He failed woefully.
Dakuku Peterside and his principal, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi squandered over N3trillion, with little or nothing to show for the wealth that accrued to Rivers State under their watch.
It was on the platform of their total failure, that Rivers people rejected Dakuku Peterside in 2015. His ugly antecedents were such that nobody would touch him with a pole.
After his rejection and the confirmation of Governor Wike’s mandate by the Supreme Court, Peterside went to the APC National Secretariat to cry for empowerment. He cited the quantum of Rivers State funds committed to Buhari’s election as his ticket to compulsory empowerment.
Blackmailed by Dakuku’s effrontery, he was appointed the Director General of NIMASA. His principal said this appointment is the centre of dollars. Aside from making dollars, Dakuku Peterside has been a liability to Nigeria.
He has spent his time at NIMASA siphoning national resources to have a second go at the Government House Port Harcourt. This obsession, premised on the inordinate quest for primitive accumulation of the people’s wealth, has led to Dakuku’s failure at NIMASA.
Instead of discharging his responsibilities at NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside spends all his time in the studios of Port Harcourt Radio Stations, concocting lies against Governor Wike.
Peterside judges others by his very low standard of “come chop”. He believes in his “APC-ed” mind that everyone will embezzle funds like himself and Amaechi, without leaving legacies behind.
If Dakuku Peterside and his godfather had expended Rivers resources providing road infrastructure, hospitals, schools, security infrastructure and jobs, Governor Wike wouldn’t have started from the scratch.
The defeated 2015 Rivers State APC Governorship Candidate was quoted by a Port Harcourt Radio Station as saying that Governor Wike is running a secret administration wherein details of developmental projects are unknown. He went ahead to claim that Governor Wike awards contracts to himself and his cronies amongst other funny allegations.
Dakuku Peterside is a man with several flaws. One of them is his inability to be truthful, he abhors truth.
The other day during the APC Factional rally at Bori, Dakuku Peterside lied that Governor Wike has not done any project for the the Ogoni people. The crowd shouted him down. It was his godfather, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi that grudgingly admitted that the dualization of the Sakpenwa-Bori Road is a major achievement.
What Amaechi didn’t tell the restive crowd was that Governor Wike has substantially touched all the 23 Local Government Areas of the state. He didn’t tell them that the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo-Nkoro Unity Road will get to Dakuku’s hometown by May.
Dakuku Peterside will most definitely ride on that road to Opobo-Nkoro to go and lie to the people. If he did it at Bori, after riding on the Sakpenwa-Bori Road, he can lie again.
Contrary to the allegation by Dakuku, Governor Wike runs a transparent administration. The best practices are folllowed in the award of contracts, as the Rivers State Bureau of Public Procurement is functioning at its peak.
Key contractors in the State are internationally recognised. Some of them are: Julius Berger, CCECC, Setraco, Raffoul, MCC, Lubrik etc. Unless, Dakuku Peterside is saying that these construction companies are owned by Governor Wike.
The salaries and pensions that Amaechi could not pay, was cleared by Governor Wike. The governor has continued to pay salaries and pensions monthly, while the governance structure has been reformed and consolidared.
The rot inherited from the immediate past Amaechi administration is being tackled across the board. Rivers resources have been deployed to Rivers communities.
For the information of Dakuku Peterside, an infrastructural revolution is taking place in Rivers State. For every campaign his failed political party will convene, they will directly or indirectly use facilities developed by Governor Wike.
Let Dakuku Peterside point out one APC Governor that is close to Governor Wike in terms of projects delivery and transparency. Let Dakuku Peterside point out what his political party has planted in Rivers State in terms of projects and programmes.
Dakuku Peterside personifies the shameful failure of the APC Federal Government. This politician is a highlight of an APC Federal Government that thrives on lies and propaganda, but hates performance. All talk and no action.
Dakuku Peterside’s conscience has been lost to his lust for the resources of Rivers State. He is only interested in desperately working to grab the levers of resources, with no capacity to deliver. If he can deliver, he should use his position at NIMASA.
For now, he is battling to extricate himself from the bench warrant issued for his arrest over questionable deals by the National Assembly.
Opinion appeared originally on THEWILL
