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| Wike Vs Umahi |
BY Mcdonald
Onu
Chieftain
of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity of the
defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwumeka Eze, has
berated the Executive Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, over his claim of
spearheading the current court ordeal of his Ebonyi State counterpart and
Chairman, South-East Governors Forum, Engr. Dave Umahi and his Deputy and
bragging that PDP will reclaim Ebonyi state by every means possible.
The Rivers Governor had in a
statement made in a public outing taken responsibility for the controversial
pronouncement of the Federal High Court, (a judgement which basis Nigerians
have continued to question, having failed to comply with the principle of
judicial precedence) and requiring that Gov. Wike explains to Nigerians how he
now influences and interferes with the Nation’s Judiciary without being a
Judge.
Recall that Justice Nyang Ekwo, of
the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had asked the Governor
and his Deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, to vacate their offices for dumping the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the political platform through which they rode
to power but Governor Umahi has since appealed the court judgement, insisting
that he remains the Governor of Ebonyi state.
In a statement made available to
media houses in Port Harcourt, the party Chief said the judicial rascality
witnessed in Justice Ekwo’s judgement against Gov. Umahi is validated by Gov.
Wike’s recent outburst which exposes the shady merchandise transacted to
sacrifice justice and truth on the altar of a selfish, private and egoistic
vendetta.
Chief Eze said the Rivers APC
suffered similar fate in the build up to the 2019 general elections when the
state judiciary was turned into an arm of the Wike government, always receiving
orders and prohibitions from the Governor especially on those matters
instituted against the APC by Senator Magnus Abe and his cohorts. His undue
interference, Eze said, gave rise to the painful exclusion of the Rivers APC
from the elections of 2019.
It is now made sufficiently clear
to all Nigerians what Rivers State, her people and public institutions have
been suffering in the hands of the shady character called Wike who has
constituted himself into a serious cog on the wheel of the state’s progress.
Eze counseled Rivers people to
stand up against political bullies and overlords and utilize the 2023 elections
to demonstrate strength to unshackle themselves from Wike’s entanglement and
dethrone bullies and highhanded public officials in Rivers State under the PDP.
With a starved army of committed
Civil Servants, pauperized legion of pensioners, a multitude of jobless youths
roaming the labor market and a sabotaged economic system with poor policy and
zero implementation, Rivers State ranks top in every negative index despite the
monumental oil wealths she has reaped in the last seven years under Gov. Wike
and the People’s Democratic Party.
“The Governor has continued
to deny civil Servants and pensioners their dues, sabotaged all economic
activities of the Igbos and Northerners in the State, thus turning the entire
Rivers people into beggars in a State God has blessed and that should be a
thing of serious concern to Nigerians of goodwill.”
Commending Governors Umahi of
Ebonyi State, Ayade of Cross River State as well as the Governor of Edo State,
Mr. Obaseki, for exposing Wike’s anti-democratic antics , Eze said it is
unfortunate for a political party that prides itself as an alternative to the
APC to sit back and watch Wike turn the PDP into a personal estates to the very
extent that he talks to anyone and everyone in a degrading and denigrating
manner because he has fraudulently scooped so much from the coffers of of
Rivers state through over-bloated petty flyover projects and therefore
has so much money to throw about.
According to Chief Eze, the type
& size of flyover constructed with a whooping N8.2bn at Elimgbu Junction,
Port Harcourt, is what the Ebonyi Governor does with N1.2bn, with its integrity
confirmed by engineering experts. What could be more fraudulent than what is
going on with public funds in Rivers State?
The party Chief called on the
Presidency, National Judicial Council and even security agencies to the
Nigerian judiciary by promptly investigating the latest antic of using the
Judiciary to unseat Governors for exercising their rights under the constitution,
viz, joining the All Progressives Congress.
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