Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC, Chief Eze Chukwumeka Eze, has criticised Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state for meddling into the affairs of Ebonyi State.
Reacting to a statement credited to the governor that he spearheaded the current court ordeal of his Ebonyi State counterpart and Chairman, South-East Governors Forum, Engr. Dave Umahi and his Deputy, the party chieftain said the governor’s action depicts meddlesomeness and wondered why he will be meddling when in his own state, he has alot of challenges unaddressed.
He said businesses in Rivers state have gone down, owing to punitive policies of the governor, particularly as it affects non indigenes.
“The Governor has 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.”
Furthermore, Chief Eze berated the governor for bragging that PDP will reclaim Ebonyi state by every means possible.
Commending Governors Umahi of Ebonyi State, Ayade of Cross River State as well as Obaseki of Edo State, for exposing Wike’s anti-democratic antics, he said that it was 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.
“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”.
“I call on 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”, he stated.
Eze noted that the type and 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.
