Cautions against further Media Attack on Tonye Cole
By Olawale Lamina
An APC Chieftain, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has called on his counterparts in the media to forthwith, desist from according any form of recognition to Mr. Tony Okocha, either as Rivers APC Chairman or member,arguing that there exists only one lawful and undisputed party structure headed by Chief Emeka Beke,and to do otherwise could undermine the authority of he judiciary.the Judiciary Eze, the Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) described Tony Okocha as a jobber and prying agent whose constant preoccupation is to meddle in the affairs of the Rivers APC “like a snooping rabbit in search for prey.”.
The party chieftain reacted on the sidelines of the latter’s comments against the branches of Nigerian Bar Association ,NBA, who had expressed dismay over his attitude as the judiciary for asked him to desist from masquerading as Rivers APC Caretaker Committee Chairman.
On that premise, Chief Eze, in his word carpeted Mr. Okocha as “an unruly agent who plays the spoiler’s script for former Rivers Governor and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and therefore a total stranger, unknown to the the party in the state.”
He stressed that the Nigerian Bar Association is aware and the public is notified “to regard all comments by Mr. Okocha on any issue as personal to him and his overlord- the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and not in any way representing, partly or wholly, the opinion of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress.”
The media practitioner and party chieftain further condemned Okocha for his conduct, calling the on the NBA to decisively deal with Okocha by putting him where he belongs in order that “the pile of loathsome garbage he exudes in media spaces and their unhealthy impacts can be treated.,”
He said: “Okocha is morally contaminated and the loudness of his self-assertiveness has the perceptible tincture to corrupt public manners and therefore portends danger to society, justifying the need for an intervention from a professional body like the NBA and in fact, the judiciary, which are the latest victims of his abrasive display of media rudeness.”
Eze called on Okocha and his team of of alleged conspirators to take their prying eyes off the concerns of the Rivers APC, stressing that no amount of prompting from his paymasters or smear campaign against the judiciary can confer a dint of authority on him to act on behalf of the Rivers APC or any part thereof, now or in the future.
“The uncultured manners, moral defects and sense of mental ill-being Mr. Okocha has displayed is such that merit decisive disciplinary measures, in this instance expulsion; but the Rivers APC can only take action against a person who is a member. Okocha is not a member of the Rivers APC, his name is nowhere on the party’s register, else he would have been expelled long before now. He is just a mole, a jobber, a mercenary on the payroll of the FCT Minister, deployed to cause crisis in the APC”, Eze noted.
Recall that Mr. Okocha and others were constituted into a caretaker committee to steer the affairs of Rivers APC, by the Ganduje-led National Working Committee , despite the fact that the tenure of the congressionally elected State Working Committee headed by Chief Emeka Beke, was still subsisting.
Eze alleged: “The political robbery committed by Ganduje on the prompting of Wike, was however addressed by a court of competent jurisdiction which reinstated Emeka Beke and his team and asked the “uninvited tombo fly” called Okocha and his club of masqueraders to go home and never to poke-nose or disturb the peace of Rivers APC,” and castigated the politician for what he described as “ihis vitriolic spews on the Governorship candidate of the APC in the 2023 elections, Pst. Tonye Cole for referring to him as a member of the stranded political family of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.”
According to Chief Eze, Okocha had alleged that Pst. Tonye Cole is not a factor in the politics of Rivers State, and was merely drafted into the equation by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, both of whom he described as business partners.
On this note, he reminded Okocha that he was never in the equation “when Amaechi picked him from the gutter like a destitute, dusted him and threw him up to the position of Chief off Staff, to succeed Wike who was nominated by Amaechi for Ministerial appointment, despite stiff opposition from same people he worships as gods today, including the FCT Minister whom he adores like an idol.”
In the same vein, the APC stalwart carpeted the Forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) State Chairmen, over their position on the Rivers APC crisis, particularly their recent alleged indiscreet chatter, extolling the National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for his bold act of contempt – trying in vain to impudently extend the life span of the caretaker committee in glaring contravention of a subsisting Court judgment.
Describing the group as a congregation of marauders plundering the spoils gathered by the FCT Minister from the coffers of Rivers State when he held sway as Governor, Chief Eze said the group by their action, has signaled to Nigerians that the party is averse to rule of law and Orders of court and chooses which decision of court it would obey and the ones to bluff.
Eze reminded the forum that the party in the state is safe in the hands of Chief Emeka Beke as Chairman and no amount of conspiracies can thwart a position that has been cemented by a competent court of jurisdiction.
Eze, a member of APC Legacy Projects Media Team and former National Publicity Secretary, nPDP concluded by referring to Okocha as an unfortunate development in the politics of Rivers State, adding that the same Okacka remains one of the biggest political mistakes of Chibuike Amaechi during his days as governor of Rivers State.
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