By Daniel Kanu (Assistant Politics Editor)
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday predicted that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, will become the albatross of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if the it fails to take urgent steps to checkmate him.
APC alleged that Wike has destroyed both the party (PDP) and governance in the state, concluding thta he will likewise “destroy the entire PDP in a matter of months.”
Rivers APC predicated its prediction on what it called Wike’s “sickening obsession to destroy” his predecessor Rotimi Amaechi.
Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, and Wike, once political allies, have become bitter political foes with seeming irreconcilable political differences.
Rivers APC in the statement signed by the chairman, Chief Davies Ikanya Ibiamu in Port Harcourt, said: “Though PDP is happy to use Chief Wike as the party’s cash cow in detriment to the welfare of Rivers people, Wike will eventually become the force that will finally destroy the troubled party once his Vice Presidential ambition is scuttled.
“His mobilisation of his violent GDI group to stone and embarrass the northern governors that came to Rivers State to sympathise with the then Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in 2014, will continue to haunt him and PDP even though he spends more time in the North these days scheming to be relevant in the sharing of positions within PDP.
“However, PDP leaders should realise that the leopard does not change its spots. If Wike could use forged documents to try to decimate Amaechi, who made him politically, he is also capable of destroying PDP once his inordinate ambition to control the party machinery fails to materialise.”
The statement advised PDP to take advantage of the Supreme Court judgement on its protracted leadership dispute to get it acts together so as to offer constructive opposition to the ruling party.
“More importantly, PDP leaders should end their celebration and be in sober reflection of the shame and punishment their party’s corrupt administration has brought to Nigeria and Nigerians in its 16 long years of dominating the Nigerian political space,” the statement said.