Mr John Bazia, a former commissioner for chieftaincy and local government affairs under governor Nyesom Wike’s first term says the chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last week were moles in the APC.
Bazia said during a Channels TV program on Tuesday night that they were transmitting information about the APC to the PDP.
The former state chairman of the APC, Davies Ikanya and Igo Aguma, a former acting chairman on Saturday, defected to the PDP.
But Bazia said that they were moles in the APC who didn’t like the party.
According to him, Igo Aguma and Ikanya lack integrity, adding that they were in a party that they didn’t like.
He accused them of conniving with the PDP to undermine the APC which made the APC lose elections.
On governor Wike, he said the governor does not understand the importance of the office he holds, adding that those still working with the governor know what they’re going through.
“You see him on television, and you see the way he carries himself. He forgets the exalted position he occupies, the office of the governor.
“He behaves like a thug,” he said.
Bazia who represented Tai Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly from 1999 to 2007 had on the 17th of September 2020 defected to the APC.
But Wike said his defection was insignificant, describing him as a political neophyte.
He said Bazia caused him so much embarrassment.
According to Wike: “During the 2015 presidential campaign, the President brought Kola to the Traditional Rulers. You can’t believe what happened. The Chairman of Rivers State Traditional Rulers Council called me that the chiefs are waiting for their Kola. I was amazed and said which Kola, you have not received it? They said no. The then commissioner of Information who was the chairman of the Subcommittee of our campaign said they gave the Kola to John Bazia. Do you know what Bazia did? He took Eighty per cent (80%) and brought 20 per cent of the Kola to the traditional rulers.
“The then Commissioner of Information got angry and slapped him and called him an armed robber. Everybody was angry and compelled him to bring the Kola. What an embarrassment.”
Governor Wike, also claimed he had to personally intervene and pay off the 40,000Euro debt Bazia was owing.
