The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has descended
heavily on the Caretaker Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike,
over the sack of 344 Lecturers of the Rivers State Polytechnic
recruited in September 2014 by the immediate past administration of
Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. “This is madness taken too far,”
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said Thursday in a
statement in Port Harcourt. He also lamented the order handed down to
the Director of the institution, Mr. Obiankor Elechi, to proceed on
compulsory leave with immediate effect.
“It is also being reported that the 13,200 teachers employed by
Governor Amaechi to ease the suffering of unemployed Rivers youths are
programmed to be sacked by next week as part of Wike’s ‘Operation kill
Amaechi’s Legacies’. Just last week, all the Boards and Parasatatals
in Rivers State were dissolved in Wike’s bid to reconstitute and fill
them with his family members and cronies,” Ikanya said. “To
demonstrate his disdain for decency and promotion of nepotism, Wike
appointed his immediate cousin, Surveyor Okas Wike of Emma Wike &
Partners, as a Director in the reconstituted Greater Port Harcourt
Development Authority (GPHDA). Also appointed was his direct in-law,
the immediate direct younger brother to Dr. Obuzor, his father in-law,
Architect Nnamdi Obuzor, to same board of merely eight members,” the
Rivers APC Chairman added.
Wike, according to Ikanya, boasts that Rivers State has been conquered
and that nobody can question him or direct him on how to run the State
as none of the bigwigs or elders surrounding him contributed a kobo in
his election. “Wike has been telling anyone who cares to listen that
he must recoup all the funds he spent in his bid to become governor.
We wish to remind him that there will be a day of reckoning, even as
we demand that he must not treat persons from the riverine and other
parts of Rivers State as hewers of wood and drawers of water while
lucrative offices are reserved for his family members, relatives and
cronies. Whatever his grievances may be, he must not vent his anger on
innocent lecturers and the poor masses of Rivers State who are not
politicians and have not offended him in any way,” Ikanya said.
The statement challenged Wike’s godfathers to call him to order,
asking: “Where is Dr. Peter Odili? Where is Prince Uche Secondus?
Where is Dame Patience Jonathan? Where are the elders of Rivers State
who brought this shame on our dear State? Is this the type of governor
you people want for Rivers State at this critical period of the 21st
Century? What crimes have we committed to warrant this type of callous
government whose promotion of infamy, impunity and nepotism is
unprecedented?”
Rivers APC noted that “if they fail to call Wike to order and he
succeeds to run down our State, they are can rest assured that history
will never be favourable to them.” It pointed out that “Amaechi is not
the one on trial here but you all that by crook installed Wike as
governor,” adding: “To dismantle all that Amaechi laboured to achieve
for Rivers State these eight years cannot be said to be the best
strategy to demonstrate Wike’s evil plot against Rivers people for
stating that it is unholy to deny the riverine areas their turn to
produce the next Governor of Rivers State after the upland has
governed the State for a whopping 16 years.”
The party pleaded with Rivers people, “particularly those that are
being hunted and humiliated, to keep hope alive as it is only a matter
of weeks before salvation will come their way as we are fasting and
praying that the Election Petition Tribunal comes to our aid as soon
as possible to save us from the hands of this man who does not know
what governance is all about.”
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA on Media and Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers State
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