By Valentine Amanze
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has advised the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, to think before talking on political matters, particularly as they concern the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which he pretends to love.
Governor Uzodinma also restated that he did not regret his comment that the PDP and Wike were instrumental to the attempted plot to remove the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole.
Governor Wike had berated Governor Uzodinma on a national television on Tuesday in a manner many wondered if the office the Rivers State governor occupies today is the same with his predecessors.
In a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser, Mr. Oguwike Nwachuku, Governor Uzodinma said that Wike arrogates to himself the strength he does not have going by the way he talks.
Uzodinma said: “There is no better way to pin Governor Wike down to the recent crisis rocking the APC and its National Chairman than the careless way he spoke against me. I obviously was echoeing what many already know about Wike and his type of politics.
“Is it not unfortunate that Governor Wike pretends to have a court injunction on how to speak carelessly, the reason many erstwhile members of the PDP, including founding members, had abandoned the party which is about to collapse on Wike’s head.
“Rather than engage in some kind of introspection on what went wrong with his party, Governor Wike thinks that trivializing serious issues of national and international importance will bring accolades his way.
“If Governor Wike did not have a hand in the Oshiomhole saga, why insult me, whose only crime was that I brought Wike’s mischief tendencies to the fore for everyone to see?”
Uzodinma also accused Wike of pretending to
love the Judiciary more than anyone else, stressing, “the truth is that every opportunity he gets to stand the judiciary on the head he does so with relish.”
He said that Wike’s interest in the attempted removal of the National Chairman of the APC was legion, stressing that he [Uzodinma] does not talk much and when he does it is not frivolous.
Uzodinma said unlike Wike, he believes in the rule of law like the APC and has not hidden his respect for the judiciary as a critical organ for national development and survival of Nigeria’s democracy.
“If Governor Uzodinma were to be you, he would not have followed through all the processes he painstakingly adopted to emerge the governor of Imo State on Januray 14, 2020, and reaffirmed Governor on March 3, 2020 after you worked so hard to truncate the judgment of the Supreme Court,” he said.