A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has accused Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike of pioneering crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to negotiate his way into the party’s Presidential ticket for 2027 elections.
Eze said after failing to grab the PDP’s ticket for the 2023 Presidential election and his inability to emerge as the Vice Presidential Candidate to the party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the Rivers governor has devised a plan ahead of 2027.
In a statement made available to media houses in Port Harcourt, the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) said having spent more than sixteen years actively participating in the politics of Rivers State and closely relating with key political actors in the state, it is easy for him to predict the move and body language of any political actor from the State.
According to him, “Having studied his style of politics, particularly how he managed to impose himself as the Governor of Rivers State in 2015 and 2019, I can tell Nigerians for free that Wike is not only one of the most deadly political strategists around but one who plans ahead of most of his contemporaries in this game of politics.”
The party Chief said when Wike started inviting most political actors to Rivers State from different political divides to commission one project or the other, pointers showed that the governor is on a mission that has bloomed into the current crisis in the PDP.
The statement reads in part, “Just to ensure that Rivers’ resources are wasted on foolish ventures to earn cheap political relevance, most of these guests invited for commissioning ceremonies are from States where their Governors receive little resources but are doing wonders in their various States. But they come and praise Wike to high heavens just to get their share of the common patrimony of Rivers State.
“I must commend both the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, and the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila who acted as true men by pointing out to Governor Nyesom that arrogating to himself for projects executed with funds the APC led Federal Government released to Rivers based on what Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi erstwhile Governor of Rivers State saved doesn’t in any way make him anything better administrator. Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila spoke my mind when he teased Wike who is proud of himself as an exceptional Governor by constructing twelve unnecessary flyovers in two Local government areas in a State that have 23 LGAs that have no meaning to the people of Rivers State while in a State like Lagos over a thousand Flyovers are constructed and nobody is making any noise about them. He concluded by telling Wike that if you don’t have it upstairs you don’t have it.
“This notwithstanding, let me state that after wasting Rivers State funds over this elusive dream, he went ahead to aim for the Vice Presidential ticket of PDP to work under Atiku Abubakar whom he abused severally without restraint but not knowing that Atiku Abubakar is a giant so far as national politics is concerned in Nigeria.
“To many people, Governor Nyesom Wike has become a sort of Mecca in the politics of Nigeria given the many political leaders that are trouping to Rivers State seeking one help or the other from the man they all know means no good for this country.
“Now he has boxed the party leadership to a corner to meet up with his demands of Atiku Abubakar doing one term and for the party to zone its 2027 presidential slot to him and recommending the sack of the National Chairman of the party so that he can install his stooge that will pave way for his 2027 presidential dream. I must state that Wike’s demands are full of sinister motives and should be decoded wisely.”
Eze noted that “Wike will not rest until he gets commitment that Atiku will only do one term and that Ayu is removed and most importantly the party will hand over the party’s presidential slot to him by 2027.”
He further maintained that succumbing to the alleged demands will scatter the PDP and cause its failure before the 2023 general elections.
“Should anybody dispute these facts then such a fellow doesn’t know who Wike is,” Eze added.
