•Says governor’s bid to remove him as minister failed
•Minister is an empty vessel— Amaechi
The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, has described Rotimi Amaechi’s government in Rivers State as fraudulent. He asked the governor to pack and go and that he is no longer sleeping, as he (Wike) promised him.
He also declared that he would not allow Amaechi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), to open a secretariat of the parallel Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, not even in Government House, Port Harcourt.
Wike, a two-term Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, stressed that Amaechi is not God and cannot be God, while teasing him that the condition he gave President Goodluck Jonathan to remove him as a minister did not work.
He stated these yesterday evening at the playground of the Girls’ Secondary School, Abonnema of Kalabari Kingdom, the headquarters of the coastal Akuku-Toru LGA of River state, at the LGA and Wards (17) inauguration of the Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI), of which Wike is the grand patron.
There was a thanksgiving service earlier at the same venue, with the minister of state for education, whom sources said would soon be made a senior minister, arriving the venue at 4:41 pm, in an Aero helicopter, marked BN-BHG, which left immediately.
Wike immediately proceeded to the nearby palace of the Amanyanabo (monarch) of Abonnema, King Gbobo Disrael Bobmanuel, on a courtesy visit, with the royal father asking the minister to give the ancient town a federal secondary school.
The minister of state for education returned to the playground at 5:41 pm for the inauguration, while the chopper returned at 5:50 pm, but had to wait till the end of the programme.
Wike, a former Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, was also the Director-General of the Amaechi Campaign Organisation in 2011, before being appointed as a minister, while he and Amaechi are both Ikwerre.
Earlier on Thursday, the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, inaugurated the Rivers secretariat of the New PDP at No. 38, Forces Avenue, old GRA, Port Harcourt, before policemen invaded and sealed off the expansive premises.
The New PDP secretariat, directly opposite the old GRA Police Station, was the headquarters of Amaechi Campaign Organisation in 2011.
On Thursday evening, policemen prevented Amaechi and the visiting former speakers from accessing the nearby Government House, through the Forces Avenue.
Amaechi, through Okocha, in a telephone interview last night, described the minister of state for education as a misfit, empty vessel, intellectually dry, a ragamuffin and playing God.
Wike said: “Change has come to Rivers State. I will plead with you to join me and say this: ‘Amaechi, you are not God and you cannot be God,’ because you are a tenant. Your house rent has expired and you cannot pay. Pack and go. Tenant, pack and go.
“Man proposes, God disposes. They thought they could give condition, because of your prayers, all they have done have come to nothing. Help me thank Mr. President, for the confidence he has in me, to keep me back, as a minister in the Federal Executive Council.
“Continue to support our brother, continue to support our son. Preach the message that come 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan will come back. Continue to support Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
“There is only one PDP. Those who said they have two million votes; they are still going for meetings to give conditions. We are not accepting any condition. The only Chairman of this party is Felix Obuah.
“They wanted to dare us, to see whether we are still in government. We are in government. We are PDP government and nobody can open office of any parallel party in Rivers State. They should go to their Government House. I will not allow them to open it, even in Government House, because their rent has expired.”
According to him, “Before, they said we were Abuja politicians. Now they are saying we are in Rivers State every week. The politicians have come home. When I told them they would not sleep, they did not understand. Are they sleeping now? You can now see 4-1-9. They have been showing the same model primary school since 2007. 4-1-9 government, pack and go.”
Amaechi stated that every citizen of Nigeria had the rights of the freedom of association, freedom of speech and the freedom of movement, and that the minister of state for education had no right to restrict the governor’s movement.
Rivers chief of staff said: “Wike should be told that the new PDP, led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has come to stay in Rivers State. There is nothing anybody can do about it. The secretariat of the New PDP has been opened and the party’s flags have been hoisted.
“Wike has no pedigree. He is a tout. I do not know who is more 4-1-9 than Wike. He awarded to himself, all the contracts under the auspices of Almajiri, using pseudo names, without following due process. He never bothered about the quality or standard of education in Nigeria, but he is concerned about infrastructure to make money. ASUU strike does not concern Wike.
“Wike, as a lawyer, has never worked in any firm. He has never practised law anywhere in Nigeria. Wike, as the supervising minister of education, is a misfit and appointed in error. Wike is one of the indices to measure a failed state, by putting a square peg in a round hole, when all nations of the world know the importance of qualitative education.
“Governor Amaechi is not playing God. Wike is the person playing God. What is Wike’s business of campaigning for Rivers 2015 governorship in 2013, when INEC has not lifted ban on campaigns? He is using President Jonathan as a smokescreen. Wike is playing to the gallery, instead of focusing on ASUU strike.”
The Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Uche Secondus, in his remarks, stated that change had come to Rivers State, while the Rivers PDP Chairman, Chief Felix Obuah, said there was no cause for alarm, with President Jonathan to be re-elected in 2015.
The President-General of the GDI, Bright Amaewhule, said members of the Rivers PDP would never be part of the Baraje-led PDP, while the Coordinator of the GDI in Akuku-Toru LGA, George Georgewill, assured that Wike would ensure good governance.

Is this man not the new minister of education? Is he now the minister of rivers state? Is he not meant to be concentrating on how the ASUU strike is gonna end?

Wike is an animal, a tout and a rogue.

I wonder what business a fool like Wike has managing our educational system.