The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday described the recent visit of former Ministers under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led administration to the State Governor, Nyesom Wike as “shameful and a bad omen” to the state.
The party said the visit of the former Ministers, especially the former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, who it alleged exposed the “evils of the Jonathan’s administration and contributed to its fall” is an indication that Wike may turn “Rivers State to Rivers of Blood.”
The party in a statement signed by its State Chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, claimed that the solidarity visit of the Ministers was not necessarily informed by their love for Wike but “the love for Rivers State money which Wike has continued to spend as he wishes, forgetting that one day he will be asked to account for all the public funds being wasted on a party that brought Nigeria to its present sorrowful State.”
According to Ikanya, “We are shocked that Sule Lamido, erstwhile Jigawa State Governor and member of the defunct New PDP (nPDP) that exposed the evils of the Jonathan administration and thus contributed to its deserved fall, could lead such a solidarity visit to Chief Wike, who is notorious for his lawless administration, thus endorsing and motivating him to continue with the killing of both civilians and security agents, turning Rivers State to Rivers of Blood, thereby endangering our nascent democracy.
“We must sincerely sympathise with the ex-ministers, especially Lamido, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was among visiting Northern Governors that were stoned and shot by members of Grassroot Democratic Initiative (GDI), the armed pressure group of Nyesom Wike, then Minister of State for Education, after which he described them as Fulani herdsmen. Today the same Sule Lamido is leading some disgruntled former ministers to support Wike in his killing spree in Rivers State.
“We can now understand why Wike after two days of this sinister nocturnal visit decided to embarrass himself during the commissioning of Ozuoba-Rumuoparaeli-Choba road on January 10, by brandishing a matchete in public and threatening to cut down all who stand in his way in Rivers State politics. One cannot but wonder how in the first place Rivers State people got here and when the governor’s office became reduced to this harum-scarum. How can a man occupying the exalted office of governor be talking like a motor park tout? This man has only succeeded in bringing shame to Rivers State, forgetting that power is transient.”
Advising the former Ministers to stop wasting their time, APC warned that “no amount of solidarity visit to a drowning man whose cup is full will save him and those supporting him from accounting for all the atrocities under their watch in Rivers State.”
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