…Says APC has Credible Individuals with Trajectory of Excellence in Public Service who Would Perform Better as FCT Minister
“….Nevertheless, Chief Eze aligned with Governor Mohammed on his position that Wike is a mole working with the APC to fuel crisis in the PDP…”
Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has contended that President Bola Tinubu, appointed former Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, to punish residents of Rivers State and the FCT for voting against him in the 2023 Presidential election.
In a statement made available to the media, Chief Eze said the legacies of wickedness, administrative incompetence, general ineptitude and anti-democratic tendencies traceable to Wike and his administration while in office as Rivers State governor, earned him his current position in the cabinet of President Tinubu.
Chief Eze insisted that “Tinubu unleashed Wike, as a poisonous venom on the inhabitants of the FCT as a punishment for massively voting against him during the 2023 presidential election and for him to sustain crisis in Rivers State to drive away Investors while his Lagos State is safe for Investors
The outspoken APC bigwig was reacting to a recent assertion by Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, who doubles as Chairman, PDP Governors Forum, that Wike was appointed FCT Minister because the APC suffers a dearth of capable individuals whose leadership penchants suit the roles of a Minister of the FCT.
But contrary to Governor Mohammed’s statement, Eze, said he was squarely wrong in his assertion.
Excerpt from Governor Bala’s statement reads – “the APC picked the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to serve in its administration because they do not have people who can perform better than PDP members.”
“I read the postulation of my friend, Gov Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State that APC borrowed Nyesom Wike and appointed him the FCT Minister because the PDP has a lot of brilliant leaders.
“Truth be told, I don’t doubt the fact that PDP has some very brilliant and credible Leaders as same fact also applies to APC, but to attribute brilliance to that dented, uncultured dimwit and political nuisance called Wike is an embarrassing misnomer and unfair blunder that should not be spread abroad” Eze submitted.
Eze stressed that Bala’s Socratic irony is however fathomable given that Nigerians are very much aware that as a governor, Wike destroyed the structure of democracy in the state and deployed authoritarianism as the preferred model for his inglorious regime synonymous for everything antithetical to societal growth and development.
According to the APC Chieftain, Wike belongs to the class of leaders who are considered unfortunate development in society and who ought not to go anywhere close to the seat of power for the despicable evil they have committed against the Nigerian State and her suffering citizenry.
“Wike is playing a dangerous politics that negates the principles of democracy, thereby setting a dangerous precedent in Nigeria’s political landscape. One leg in APC and one leg in PDP; and you call that politics?
“No, it’s politics of an errand boy and habitual betrayer, bereft of political ideology, Eze stated.
“Good the thing is that we in the APC are watching him closely. He fought and insulted virtually all the PDP Governors opposed to his Presidential ambition.
“He is working clandestinely to decimate the PDP for his selfish interest and you think those of us in the APC are not mindful of his autocratic tendencies?
“So, Tinubu decided to appoint him as a Minister not because APC lacks capable people but because he needed bootlickers, vampires and political tradesmen with zero character like Wike who can manipulate and easily be manipulated. And this is one of the reasons he has succeeded in turning the APC into a laughing stock with a near-zero electoral value, Eze posited.
Nevertheless, Chief Eze aligned with Governor Mohammed on his position that Wike is a mole working with the APC to fuel crisis in the PDP.
Bala had stated that, “They want us to be in disarray; It (the crisis) is the creation of the APC. They always want to have moles within us; they want to have the knowledge of what is happening within us.”
In spite of Wike’s overbearing influence and undemocratic activities in the history of Nigeria’s democracy, the Bauchi State Governor assured that efforts are underway to take decisive action to unify the party, stating, “We cannot compromise the peace and unity of our great party.”
