Ned Nwoko, a former House of Representatives member, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from the party, following his grievance with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Nwoko accused Wike of trying to destroy the PDP because he out-spent Atiku and other aspirants during the party’s presidential primaries.
The constitutional lawyer wondered if Wike would have campaigned against Atiku if he had been picked as the party’s presidential running mate.
Wike has been at loggerheads with the PDP leadership after he lost at the party’s presidential primaries.
While accepting Atiku as PDP’s presidential candidate, Wike, however, called for the removal of Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s National Chairman.
Wike and his G-5 group have been agitating for a Southerner to occupy the position of National Chairman.
He stressed that a particular region can’t produce the PDP’s National Chairman and the presidential candidate.
However, Nwoko said Wike must not be allowed to destroy the former ruling party, stressing that the governor was fighting a selfish and personal interest.
A statement by Nwoko reads partly: “Wike is trying to destroy a house we all built. Yes, he was not nominated as presidential candidate of the PDP, he also lost out in his quest to be the vice presidential candidate and we all participated in the whole process.
“It was very transparent; he spent so much money. He outspent virtually everybody else. He did; he out-spent Atiku but the battle was fought and won or lost as the case may be.
“But that is not a reason to pull down his own party. He has taken his vendetta too far.
“The only question I always ask is, what if Wike has been chosen by Atiku and he is campaigning with Atiku as Atiku is doing now, will he in the same bend be asking the national chairman to resign or go?
“He should be expelled. He has done enough damage, there is nothing more Wike can do.”
APC Knocks Wike After He Accused Rotimi Amaechi of Emptying Rivers’ State Treasury
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State says it is clear that Nigerians no longer take seriously comments credited to Governor Nyesom Wike.
Governor Wike had during a project commissioning in Obio-Akpor local government area on Saturday, November 26, 2022, accused former governor Rotimi Amaechi of emptying the state treasury before leaving office in 2015.
But the spokesman of APC in the state, Darlington Nwauju in reaction to the comment, said Amaechi will not engage in a media war with his former Chief of staff.
Nwauju, however, said it is important to set the record straight by confirming that Amaechi has to the credit of his administration, the “Agip, Eliozu Obiri Ikwere, Eleme, and Woji flyover projects”.
He maintained that the projects like others under Amaechi’s administration were done with “utmost regard for due process as they went through competitive bidding processes with premium standards delivered in the best interest of Rivers people”.
Nwauju further claimed that while the Amaechi’s administration had an Internally Generated Revenue of between “N1.5 billion to 1.9 billion monthly to work with”, the Wike administration is getting between “N10 billion and N15 billion monthly in IGR”.
The APC spokesman said the APC can beat its chest and boast that its leader and former Governor Minister of Transportation did so much for Rivers State including the “employment of 13,000 teachers, and 400 doctors”.
He further stated that pharmacists and nurses were all employed “without clannish, tribal or political sentiments” unlike what he said recently happened at the Rivers State University where according to him only persons from Governor Wike’s community were given employment against the Oath of Allegiance sworn-to by the governor.
Source: Daily Post
