•Says Gov must beg him
•Declares: ‘If President Jonathan removes me as
minister, I’ll continue to fight’
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State must brace up
for more trouble from the opposition in the days and
months ahead, if the threat, yesterday, by one of the
forces against him, is anything to go by.
Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, boasted at
a reception for him in Port Harcourt that he is ready to
make life even more uncomfortable for the governor who
is locked in the political battle of his life with the
Presidency and his party (PDP), at the state and federal
levels; the State Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu
and the Police Command; the Minister and his five
supporters in the State House of Assembly; ex-militants;
as well as other political forces from within and outside
the state.
The reception also doubled as a grand finale of the
inauguration of units of the Grassroots Development
Initiative (GDI) in Obio/Akpor LGA of the state.
Wike is the grand patron of GDI.
“We will make sure they will not sleep again, as they are
sleeping now. They will not sleep with their two eyes
closed. One eye will be open because they know there is
danger,” the minister said, 24 hours after Amaechi told a
delegation of Niger Delta Bishops who are trying to
resolve the political crisis in the state that Wike remains
a minister today by “the grace of God” and his
(Amaechi’s) effort.
The governor’s words: “Nyesom Wike was appointed
Chief of Staff by me. Nyesom Wike as a Minister of State,
I nominated him. I was under pressure by the President
to drop him, I refused. The President persuaded me to
drop him and bring a woman but I refused.
” I heard he is going all over town saying I didn’t appoint
him, I didn’t appoint him, the President appointed him
but I nominated him to be a minister as the Chairman of
Nigeria Governors’ Forum. I did, but you know character
doesn’t come easily, character is a very difficult thing
and I am a man of character.”
But in what looked like a response to the broadside fired
at him on Friday by Amaechi, the minister said yesterday
that the governor and the 27 members of the State
Assembly on his side have not had enough trouble
occasioned by their April 22 suspension of the Obio/
Akpor Local Government Council.
Wike, who is aspiring to replace Amaechi as governor in
2015, hails from the local government area. He was a
two-term chairman of the council.
The minister, speaking at yesterday’s rally, said: “They
said we are nobody. Then they have seen. When you are
dealing with nobody, be careful. The nobody will show
you that he is somebody. We will make sure they will not
sleep again. As they are sleeping, they will not sleep with
their two eyes closed. One eye will be open, because
they know there is danger.
“Those who are saying they must remove me, I have
even overstayed. For you to be minister for two years,
you must thank your God. If today we are no longer
minister, do not worry yourself. It will not change us. We
will continue to fight for what we believe in.
“We were not minister when we fought for them in 2007.
When we were here, they were not having problems.
Now, we have gone, they are having problems.
“We have always told them: you cannot do it. What you
do not know, you do not know. It does not matter,
whatever money you have, money cannot buy
everything. Now, they are having sleepless nights. When
we were here, were they having sleepless nights?
“When we were here, were they not travelling up and
down? Are they travelling again? Tell them, they should
come and beg us. Tell them to come back and beg us.
We will tell them the secret. What God has not given to
you, you do not need to do anything about it.
“I can assure you, all they are asking for: they want a
commissioner of police that will be arresting you.
Anytime they call the CP, he will arrest you. But let me
tell you, we are not interested in whoever comes here
(CP), all we are interested in is to have somebody who
will not be partial.
“Let them bring whoever they want to bring (as CP).We
want somebody who will want democracy to be practised
in Rivers State. They said one man, one vote. Now, they
do not want one man, one vote again.
“Obio/Akpor LGA is not a place you can toy with. Those
who feel they can suspend Obio/Akpor council officials,
we will make them uncomfortable. They felt once they
had dissolved the council, they would sleep.
“The party has suspended them, because they have
touched the lion and when you touch the lion, you know
the consequences. Since they said the councillors will
not take their salaries, they also will know that they will
not belong to the PDP.
“The party chairman (Chief Felix Obuah) warned them
and they said he would not be able to do anything. At the
end of the day, they are going to court to challenge us.
We will meet them in court. We are not afraid of the
court. We are accustomed to it. All the ones they have
gone, we have been winning them and we will continue
to win them.
“They are doing everything they can. They are using
their power and their money. Money cannot solve all
problems. Sometimes, you have to come back home and
realise that the people matter a lot. It is the power of the
people that has put us in positions and you must come
back to thank the people.
“Forget about what they are doing to you (his
supporters). Do not worry. We are all together. Do not
lose hope. God is on the throne.”
Wike said the suspended Chairman of Obio/Akpor LG, Mr.
Timothy Nsirim, who also attended the rally; his deputy,
Solomon Eke, and the 17 councillors have been denied
their salaries since April, but said that is part of the
sacrifice to make democracy survive.
The minister asked the people of the state to continue to
support President Jonathan and the party.
He urged members of the GDI, in particular, to go to all
the wards, communities and families in the state not to
abandon President Jonathan and his wife.
Wike added: “Your duty as GDI members is to go and
mobilise the entire state for our son (Jonathan),
eventually when he decides to run and we believe the
people of the Southsouth zone cannot sacrifice, for
whatever it is, our own son, for anything less than
President.”
Factional Chairman of the PDP in the state, Chief Felix
Obuah, pledged at the function to reconcile Amaechi,
Wike and other aggrieved members of the party in the
state.
Obuah said: “I want to invite the governor (Amaechi), the
minister (Wike) and all aggrieved members of Ikwerre
community, to be with me in my palace next weekend.
Let us sit down and fashion a way forward. I will not sit
down and see my children quarrelling, and I will not feel
concerned.”
A former Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Austin Opara, described Obio/Akpor
LGA as the home of the GDI and the PDP, stressing that
“anybody standing on your way is standing before a
moving train and will be crushed.”
The President-General of the GDI, Bright Amewhule, in
his remarks, stated that President Jonathan would be
supported to return in 2015 and that they were solidly
behind Wike.
The ceremony is the latest by the anti-Amaechi camp in
the state.
Similar ceremonies by pro-Amaechi groups are routinely
disallowed by the police, prompting observers from
within and outside the state to accuse the police
leadership in the state of taking sides.
A rally scheduled for last Tuesday by civil rights groups
to protest what they called anti-democratic tendencies in
the state was not allowed to hold by the police.
Some militants even threatened that the lives of some of
those expected at the rally were not safe should they
come.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/ill-make-life-more-uncomfortable-for-amaechi-wike-vows/

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This coming from a federal minister abi common thug?

What a country..

There was a country

*yawn*

Absolute nonsense.! And we think this is the minister that can help call our ASUU back to classroom. They are interested in killings!

Shut da phuck and take a bow....thousands of wike and shepopo cannot bend the iron rod of amaechi.

....amaechi is a dondada!

Wike stop boasting, a Governor is like a small President. U are in a position to approach him for reconciliation.
Love is Better Than Hatred!

Power tussle is getting too much, wike need to be recall

Whaooo wike wike! A federal minister? Of education for that matter!!! No iota of education is seen in wike mehn!

The cables in your head are bridging fortunately for you, your cure is at Yaba left. The only problem is that, our roads are bad so, you'll have to trek to yaba left and I pray, may you not grow dead locks before you reach dier. May your craze not be permanent.

Look at the trash and public threat been spewed by a minister in Jonathan's cabinet to a sitting Gov'nor. Smh, this madness must have to stop. Jonathan pls call your boy to other as he is only answerable to you and what ever thing he says/do will be linked directly to you.(according to d setting of a presidential system of govt via d constitution). Enough is Enough!

for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

So all these is for an aspiration to be the Governor come 2015? DEMONCRACY

This Wike has lost every iota of shame and self-restraint in his bid to become governor, He is just deceiving himself if he thinks he can become the governor of Rivers state with the way he is going. I wonder why GEJ has not removed this man as minister. He is at the center of the Rivers crisis.

See the amount of police protecting him. GEJ will not stop this man, he thinks it's Wike that will deliver 2015 to him. Okay o, we are watching to see how this drama will end. One thing I know, Wike can never be governor of Rivers state.