An ally of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers state, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has advised the present governor of the state, Sir Siminialayi Fubara to be wary of the Rivers state representative in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, management board, Tony okocha.
Eze gave the advice in a statement in reaction to a comment credit to Okocha that Gov. Fubara should re-present the 2024 budget of the state to some former lawmakers for passage even though same had been presented to a legally constituted legislature during plenary and passed into law after a thorough scrutiny and deliberation.
He said the unsavory comment compels one to ask where he (Okocha) was in the 8 years of Wike’s administration where the state annual budgets were shrouded in secrecy to the delight of same lawmakers ; unwitting victims of Wike’s political misadventure who have suddenly retreated from slumber to put up a fight after they’ve lost their seats.
Eze who is a chieftain of All Progressives Congress(APC) further said Okocha is on the frolics of his own, having no mandate to speak for APC in Rivers state.
‘As a harbinger of Wike’s selfish political misadventure, Okocha only exhibited a tip of another premeditated crafty scheme devised against the Rivers Governor, which must be detonated with dispatch.
”He is a parasitic, valueless political hireling engaged to contaminate, sabotage Fubara’s government. He should be treated as a worthless piece of paper”, Eze warned.
Responding to Okocha’s quest to know what Fubara has achieved with the federal allocations and internal generated revenue he has received so far, Eze said despite the glee of distractions from Wike and his team, Fubara has offset the accumulated pension arrears of pensioners who were overlooked all through the years Wike held sway as Governor.
”The Governor also gave Christmas allowance of N100,000 to each and every civil servant under the state payroll. And aside that the sad state of the state secretariat ignored by Wike is receiving attention”, he noted.
Eze added that apart from major internal roads that have been executed by the Fubara’s administration, the multi-billion naira ring road involving multiple local governments will be concluded before the end of the year.
The party chieftain promised to buy fuel for Okocha to power his vehicle to enable him move to the Greater Port Harcourt City to see the ever biggest housing project embarked upon by any State Government including the Federal government, comprising of over 20,000 Houses while the Federal government could only embark upon about 3,000 Renewed Hope Housing Project at Abuja.
While urging Gov, Fubara to throw Okocha and his ill-laden, worthless, and valueless opinion into the waste-bin, Eze counseled Okocha and his congregation of ex-lawmakers to learn to appreciate good deeds so that good things will not elude them in life.
Furthermore, Eze condemned in strong terms the actions of immediate past Governor Nyesom Wike, who according to him, is clearly fighting the state through the instrumentality of some ex- lawmakers still laying claim to their former seats to ferment trouble in a bid to sabotage the smooth administration of the state and incite the people against the government of the day.
”It is unheard of that lawmakers who freely exited their seats still convene plenaries to make laws; laws that only service the interest of Nyesom Wike to the detriment of the state government and the good people of Rivers State.
”More worrisome is the fact that the political madness currently in exhibition in the state enjoys the approval of President Bola Tinubu who chose to back the crude political advances of Wike against the government and people of the state.
”The former lawmakers despite their exit have continued to dish out obnoxious laws that have made it clearly difficult for government to function and yet there seems to be no institution capable of stopping them because they have the backing of the President and the Police which in saner climes functions to protect the constitutional interest of the country, is servicing whims of the President and his bunch of bootlicking loyalists”, he alleged.
He concluded by Imploring both the elders, stakeholders and all those who love the progress and greatness of Rivers State to rally around the governor at this period and save the state from the hands of internal and external enemies.
