… Says, “rather you Are Ingratitude Personified,
…reminds him that who the gods want to destroy, they first make mad.
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has labelled the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barr. Nyesom Wike, as an ingratitude personified and a serial traitor who only sought to score cheap political goals in the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Chief Eze was reacting to a recent statement credited to Wike, wherein he described the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, as an ingrate.
In a statement released to newsmen in Port-Harcourt, the former member of the APC Media Legacy Team said everybody knows that Wike has turned himself into a demi-god and a rabble-rouser who delights immense joy in using uncouth and derogatory remarks against his perceived political foes at will.
Nigerians know that Wike has turned himself to a no-respecter of persons, and this explains the rationality in ignoring his street talks whenever he loses his sense of sanity and decorum.
We have tolerated the former governor and his newfound habit of raining torrents of abuses on some elder statesmen in the country, particularly those from Rivers State.
But what we cannot ignore is allowing Wike to denigrate the office of Rivers State governor in the name of fighting Governor Fubara.
It will amount to a great disservice to the people of Rivers State and the height of ineptitude on my part if I stand aloof and hands akimbo to watch Wike deride, blackmail, demarket, and attempt to dehumanise Fubara before the world.
In one of Wike’s recent outings in Rivers State, the former governor had described both Governor Fubara and his followers as a bunch of ingrates but forgot that he is the embodiment of ingratitude.
Eze likened Wike’s statement to a case of pot calling kettle black, adding that if Wike had taken a cursory look at his political life and behaviour of recent years, he would not have resorted to abusing his governor.
In view of the foregoing, Chief Eze told Wike that Fubara is not an ingrate but on a divine mission to rescue and reposition Rivers State.
Wike should wake from slumber and to the reality on the ground that he will never in life be governor of Rivers State again. I advise him to come to terms with the fact that Rivers and its people are bigger than him. No matter the level of Wike’s blackmail, betrayal, and tyrannical tendencies, he cannot cause unrest or call the shots in Rivers politics.
Since Wike has feigned ignorance, and has thrown caution to the wind in his self destructive mission, let me remind him that there are political heavyweights, seasoned democrats, patriots and other prominent sons and illustrious daughters of Rivers state who cannot sit back and watch him decimate Rivers state. Many
have at a point in time governed the State without making frantic efforts to promote instability, disunity and hatred like Wike is doing.
For the umpteenth time, I want Wike, ousted Speaker Martins Amaewhule and his 26 Committee of Friends, to know that with the formal dissolutions of both his induced Local Govt Chairmen, APC and PDP State Excos by the Courts, they don’t need a soothsayer to decipher that their lunacy and relevance is politically dimmed.
If Fubara is an ingrate because he has not allowed Wike to turn him to a mere figure head, what will Dr Peter Odili and his wife Mary JSC, Barr. Rotimi Amaechi, Mbate etc call Wike? Of course, Ingratitude Personified.
Though the FCT Minister may be shocked with the boldness and actions of Governor Fubara in his attempt to rescue and reposition Rivers State to take her rightful position in the comity of States in Nigeria, the fact remains that Fubara is just a tool in God’s hand and not the main force behind what is happening in Rivers State.
Ordinarily, Fubara may not summon the boldness in most of his actions in view of the distractions, evil machinations and grand plots of Wike to rubbish him out of office, if not for God’s interest in the affairs of the State. So, describing Fubara as an ingrate doesn’t hold waters because the whole world and followers of politics in Nigeria and Rivers State in particular, know between Wike and Fubara, that Wike is full of ingratitude.
If Wike should blame anybody for the pragmatic, people oriented and genuine democratic governance being provided by Fubara, he should go ahead to blame God for being on Fubara’s side.
Eze told Wike that what is happening in Rivers State today is not ordinary but a divine setup orchestrated by God and not by any human being or group of persons.
“Fighting, abusing or struggling with Fubara means that such a fellow is confronting God and no human being, no matter how powerful such a fellow thinks he is, will win such a fight.
“Who could believe that Wike who allegedly compromised the Judiciary while as Governor of Rivers State to stop every form of opposition in the state to enable him govern the way he wanted, could within a space of months lose political relevance in a State he once hold as a chiefdom, if not for God, Eze queried.
“With the formal sack of Martins Amaewhule and his 26 Committee of Friends, dissolutions of both the illegal APC and PDP State Executives, by the Courts, one needs not to tell Wike that his game is up and this is just countdown to his formal political decimation.
“My only sympathy is for Tony Okocha, Chukwuemeka Aaron, Magnus Abe and many who were conscripted by Wike into this futile attempt to destabilize Rivers State.
On this note, I commend the Judiciary for delivering yet another landmark judgment on the 14th of January 2025, nullifying the ward, local government and state congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The judgment of the Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, is another indicator that Wike’s concerted effort to gain control of the political structure of PDP has amounted to a wild goose chase.
It is noteworthy for Wike to face the administration of FCT and distance himself from an ill-fated mission of trying to dictate the momentum and pace of Rivers State politics.
