Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC highlighted that nothing has exposed most public officers in Nigeria than the EndSARS protests and riots, and this seems most tragically true with the helmsman in Rivers State, Gov Nyesom Wike. This is especially so because, whereas other Governors have looked before leaping, he seems to leap before looking.
Nothing could have proved this assertion more true than his ban on protests only to gleefully welcome the same protesters to Government House where he glowed in the euphoria of someone who started the End-SARS campaign.
Next, the same man who mocked his kinsman and Minister, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi for allegedly being mobbed overseas by the same IPOB is now turning round to accuse a Rivers man of sponsoring IPOB. Many have thus wondered if Gov Wike must call his former mentor’s name in every evil flying around Rivers State to such an obviously embarrassing level to himself. This is the same IPOB that stands against anything and everything North; everything Buhari; and everything APC of which Amaechi symbolises.
Thus, Wike’s recent calumnious and odoriferous outburst against the Transportation Minister, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, as the proponent and financier of the topsy-turvy and huge human and material destruction allegedly perpetrated by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been described as a mountain of illusion merely palpitating in the web of debacle.
Governor Wike, had during a live interview on AIT on the fallout of the End SARS protest and the report of mass killings of IPOB members in Oyigbo, a Local Government Area in Rivers State, accused the Transportation Minister of sponsoring the crisis that rocked the #EndSars protest in the troubled LGA and other violence spots in Port Harcourt and other areas in the state, stressing that the Minister is disturbed by his rising political profile.
Excerpt from the reported speech of Gov. Wike on the AIT Program beamed live Monday, 2 November, 2020, reads: “I know where all this is coming from. They think they can sponsor all sorts of rubbish against me. I know it is coming from the Minister of Transportation. Why will he (Amaechi) not do that? He thinks that I am rising politically, and he is doing everything to bring me down. Everybody knows that. It is not hidden. I cannot change my identity.”
Referring to the claim as a cocktaildestitute utterances, the party chief said Gov. Wike may have been deceitfully immersed into a pool of egotistic make-believe by attaching to himself a strange and exaggerated sense of self-importance in his hilarious comment about his self-deluded ‘rising political profile’.
“To where is his political profile rising when his actions and programmes have shattered the economy and general fortunes of the state?” Eze queried.
“I salute his rising political profile which has earned the state the unemployment capital of Nigeria; I thank him for instigating the menace of insecurity and endangering the lives of Rivers people who now sleep with their two eyes widely opened in the midst of his rising political profile; with Pensioners not receiving their pensions, civil servants begging to be paid their salaries and Rivers youths have been denied their due and their futures stocked in limbo, yet, Wike brags about his rising political profile. One wonders where his profile is rising to”. Eze said.