AGAIN, APC CHIEFTAIN SLAMS MAGNUS ABE… Stop the Eye Service Now.
"Your counsel to Wike on hostility towards FG is
diversionary, inconsequential, half-hearted 'eye-service', Eze tells Abe ...
"Expresses
happiness that Wike understands the meaning of Abe telling him publicly to be
wise".
Describes
Abe's damage control as lifeless as he helped foist Wike on Rivers people...
A
chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the South-South
region and former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People's
Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has dismissed as
inconsequential, Senator Magnus Abe's open counsel to Gov Nyesom Wike over his
unguarded utterances and spurious claims against the APC-led Federal Government.
Abe
had reportedly, made these spurious claims recently in his widely criticized
State-wide broadcast.
In
a statement made available to media houses on Monday, Eze noted that Senator
Abe merely tried to divert attention from his crafty mien and antecedent in a
failed attempt to present himself clean and unblemished to the public.
According
to Chief Eze, Abe merely wants to disassociate himself from his bosom friend
and political partner who is at the verge of imminent downfall, saying such was
Abe’s stock-in-trade; always ditching friends in distress and finding a way to
join a winner.
A
statement from Abe and made available to Media Houses, the embattled Abe had
said; "Now is not the time to settle issues of supremacy between elected
and unelected functionaries of government".
“I
want to use this opportunity to publicly appeal to the Rivers State government
to immediately seek and secure back channel lines of communication, and resolve
any outstanding issues with the federal government through dialogue", Abe
had further stated.
Did
Abe not seek to spike his new friend, Wike, by telling him in public that he
(Wike) was not ‘wise’ in his actions? To tell your so-called friend in public
that: ‘Wisdom is not weakness’ is simply to tell him in a nice way that he is
not wise. Eze asked.
Abe
had told Wike publicly that, “It is one thing to have a political dispute with
an individual whose attitude and conduct, a lot of people may not approve of. But,
it is a different matter for sub-national entity like Rivers state to challenge
the sovereignty of Nigeria at this time when we should all be working together
to combat an unseen but deadly enemy".
“What
is Abe attempting to do here? To turn the almightiness of the Federal
Government against our own brother, this is the highest height of hypocrisy”, the
former nPDP scribe stated.
Chief
Eze revealed that Abe had gone on to tell Wike that, “I (Abe) had earlier
stated my determination not to be party to any action that will politicize our
ability to confront the corona virus pandemic as a people and I maintain that
position".
Reminding
the reading public that it was Senator Abe who connived with Gov. Wike and the
PDP to deprive Rivers APC the opportunity of fielding candidates for the 2019
elections through a floodgate of litigations laced with injunctions, Chief Eze
said this had denied the electorate their chances of electing their preferred
representatives in the parliament and in other positions in government.
“Turning
around to counsel one’s evil accomplice on civility and good conduct without
self-contrition is merely pretentious, diversionary and unacceptable”, Eze
said.
Eze
wonders if Abe have forgotten his group's slogan insinuating that PDP is more
organized than APC to warrant their movement to PDP "If we, too, after so
much and nothing is happening, decide to move, that will not make us bad people.
If we can no longer organize ourselves and the powers-that-be are not helping
matters, we will look at those who are organized, if we must continue to play
the game. There will be realignment of forces".
This
was before the massive movement of Abe's Group to PDP but let me ask, does it
mean with Abe's recent attack that Wike is no longer more organized?
Eze
tasked Abe to tell Nigerians the fate of Senator Barry Mpigi, Peter Meedeh,
Bariere Thomas, Alwell Onyesoh and several others whom he led to PDP and Wike
after frustrating the electoral chances of the APC in Rivers State.
The
APC chieftain said Abe is coming out now to criticize Wike because the deal he
struck with him has been frustrated with the emergence of Austin Opara, as the
preferred PDP guber candidate for 2023.
Eze
cautioned Abe to continue enjoying his Wike, as his sudden criticisms and
counsel only portray him as grossly unstable. Many already have the foreboding
feeling that it may be terrible for Senator Abe if at the end he is neither a
force in the APC nor in the PDP in 2023.
One
wonders if Abe's counsel to Wike is out of ignorance; whether he no longer know
the antecedents of Wike and his type of politics for him to have yielded to the
offer of such a satanic collaboration from a character like Wike to frustrate
his acclaimed home, the APC, from fielding candidates and participating in the
2019 general elections. Or, is he expecting Wike to change at this period knowing
very well that Wike is un-teachable.
Abe
would not be regretting what Wike has turned Rivers State into today if he had
allowed reasons to prevail and support APC during the election. It is too late
for Abe and those that guided him into this misfortune and political
wilderness as nothing will stop Wike from continuing to torture Rivers State
and her people from misguided governance style of the governor and the
attendant lack of peace.
Eze
wondered the premise on which Abe is advising Wike and sought to know whether
Wike, out of magnanimity, appointed him one of his Special Advisers, or the
feeling of frustration from the reckless abandonment he suffers from the
governor after using him to achieve his selfish aim of making Rivers State a
mockery and laughing stock among the States in Nigeria due to his visionless
agenda has caught him up.
If
by his utterances, Abe has fallen apart with Wike, Eze tasked the ex-lawmaker
to explain to Nigerians what the fates of Chief Allwell Onyesoh and thousands
of APC loyalists would be; those who out of his prompting joined PDP and the
Wike administration.
“What
about Senator Barty Mpigi who is now a Senator under the PDP banner?" Eze
queried. "What will be the fates of Dr. Peter Meedeh and Bariere Thomas
who are Abe's allies and are today Commissioners and members of the Rivers
State Executive Council. Will they drop from the Wike's administration because
their mentor cannot be criticizing Wike from the outside while they remained in
the inside. Gov Wike would think they are leaking government secrets to their
mentor to warrant those public attacks. Or, does Abe and his cohorts think Wike
is dump to consider what he said as harmless advice? Be sure Wike will clearly
read the signs and understand the meaning of your so-called advice” Eze further
opined.
The
party Chief counseled Abe thus: “You can't eat your cake and have it. If Chief
Nyesom Wike is the Wike that I know, he has moved on and if he has promised
making you a Governor by 2023, forget about it as Chief Austin Opara has
already been handed over the flag of PDP for 2023".
“The
damage you have caused Rivers State and her people will live with you.” Eze
lamented.
Eze
urged Abe not to bother to help President Buhari and his administration in the
hands of Gov Wike. He highlighted that Wike's confrontation and onslaught
against the Federal Government or the APC doesn't make any meaning either to
the Party or the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as his attacks
would not prevent the Federal Government from impacting on the lives of the
people of Niger Delta region and Nigerians at large.
Eze
maintained that all those who defiled every sound reasoning and conspired to
put Wike into power against the sound leadership that APC would have provided
will ever live the rest of their lives in torment and woe.
The
media mogul counseled the people of Rivers State to continue to endure the
hardship occasioned by the lack of direction and plans by the Wike
administration as efforts are being made to assemble quality leadership that
would take the state back to the golden rule of the Amaechi era.
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