By Olawale Lamina
A former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party, nPDP, and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has faulted the recent reconciliation between Senator Magnus Abe and SDP Governorship candidate in the 2023 election and the Minister of FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike, describing it as a mere media frenzy and a “distraction carefully schemed to curry public attention in a bid to excite political interest in their own divide.”
In a statement titled: “Abe, Wike Reconciliation Furor….,” The state APC chieftain alleged that Sen. Abe was never in disagreement with the immediate past governor of the state, Wike, but was sent on an assignment, claiming that, ” it is now time for him (Abe) to report back to his boss for a recompense. So the news of reconciliation should be discountenanced as a thrash….”
Eze condemned the claims by Abe when the latter asserted that he had made peace with Wike.
He described the duo as ” long time evil conspirators in the battle-royal for the soul of Rivers State and the purported claim of reconciliation by the former Rivers Southeast Senator is a blatant falsehood deployed to sway the public and should be thrashed as there was never a time they severed from each other but have always worked symbiotically to crumble dissenting voices from the Rivers APC.”
Abe’s statement further reads, “I want to publicly thank the Minister, he could have behaved like other politicians_made peace with me, and still encourage me, Tony Okocha and others to continue fighting (You bring Magnus in the morning through one door, then bring Tony in the evening through the other door). But his style is direct, truthful and sincere, and it will create a united team.
The disagreements within is over and done for good, because the oxygen for conflict has been extinguished….,”
IEze Chukwuemeka noted that Sen. Abe recognized the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike as the leader of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State but same Wike who, at the same time is busy jostling and lobbying for the leadership of the PDP in the state.
He described the moves as corruption of politics and only persons with moral bankruptcy “like Abe will subscribe to this cadre of irking insipidity,”(sic.)
He alleged that Abe was the one who played a spoiler against the Rivers APC in 2015, an event which led to the scuttling of the party’s chances at the polls.
Similarly, Eze stated that in the wake of the 2019 elections, Nigerians saw Senator Abe deploying some sort of sophisticated sleight against the APC at the time and the party was unable to present any candidate for the elections of that year, arguing that the ploy made a way for the former governor Wike to have a free ride to a second term. He alleged that , for this role, Sen. Abe, “as a political merchant, he was handsomely rewarded handsomely by the Wike led government of Rivers State.”
And, while Eze claimed that Abe left the APC for the gubernatorial ticket of the Social Democratic Party,SDP, in the state., noting that the Senator did when he had very little or no chance of victory, “but only used the SDP platform to campaign against the APC and President Tinubu, while always lauding Wike for dishing out obnoxious executive orders to inhibit the APC and other rival political parties in the state from holding rallies and engaging with electorate.”
The APC chieftain maintained that as a key player he would be failing Nigerians and the world if he shys away from exposing what he described as “Abe’s political antecedents littered with debasing trajectory, especially his latest gimmick to sneak himself into the long list of those scampering for federal appointments through the FCT Minister, who has elevated himself into the status of a Governor of the federal capital.”
He emphasized that as much as he would not work against Abe benefitting from his acts against the APC,it is erroneous for the former lawmaker to deceive the public with the false narrative of reconciling with Wike to strengthen the APC “when the question of Wike’s legitimate membership of the party and his status in the PDP are unknown.”
The APC chief highlighted that the reconciliation narrative had been schemed to present a formal re-entrance of Abe into the APC in other to allow the later checkmate of Tony Okocha, whom he claimed failed in his assigned duty to tackle the administration of governor Fubara.
Eze observed by concluding that, ” the funny reconciliation between two greatest enemies of APC, I wish to plead with President Tinubu to consider favourably all that my good friend Abe have done to assist you achieve your political aim in Rivers State by granting him his desired political office. He has suffered enough and entitled to a very high compensation.”
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