The New Peoples Democratic Party this evening came
down heavily on Minister of State for Education, Chief
Nyesom Wike, describing him as a traitor and a misfit for the exalted office he is occupying.

The party was reacting to Wike’s allegation that
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and
the New PDP are behind the prolonged strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which
started on July 1.

“We would have ordinarily ignored Wike’s outburst as
the ranting of a confused and clueless minister but have decided to reply so as to set the record straight. We challenge Wike to produce evidence to back up his
allegation or bury his head in shame forever,” said New
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Eze
Chukwuemeka Eze, in a statement, a copy of which was made available to News Express.

Continuing, Chief Eze said: “If we may ask, was it Gov.
Amaechi or any other of our members that negotiated
on behalf of the Federal Government in 2009 when it
reached the agreement with ASUU, which it has
inexplicably refused to honour, thus laying the
foundation for this lingering strike that has mortgaged
the future of innocent Nigerian youths? And did any
member of New PDP negotiate on the part of ASUU
during the recently deadlocked talks with the FG over
the strike?

“It is unfortunate that instead of committing himself
towards finding a solution to the crippling strike, Wike
has instead chosen to trivialise the issue and to ridicule
himself. Unfortunately, it is the actions and utterances
of court jesters like Wike that have made perceptive
Nigerians to describe the Goodluck Jonathan
administration as a kindergarten government.

“For Wike to have made this statement against a group
that ordered her members to fast and pray for this
unfortunate strike for over a week and even set up a
Committee under the Chairmanship of His Excellency,
Gov Babangida Aliyu to proffer solutions on how to
come out of the quagmire occasioned by Wike’s inability simply demonstrates the lack of wisdom on his side!

“We are at a loss as to how a supposedly serious
government should continue to retain such an
incompetent and unserious mind as a Minister of the
very strategic Ministry of Education in a country
teeming with accomplished educationists and
administrators if not for undemocratic motor-park
democracy he specializes on.

“In any case, we are not overly surprised by Wike’s
tirade because a man who could engineer the stoning of visiting State Governors from other parts of the country without caring a hoot about the consequences is capable of saying or doing anything, no matter how outrageous.

Let us reiterate that should he ever make another
derogatory statement about the Baraje-led PDP, we will teach him some lessons on how to talk as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and he should note that New PDP is not Rivers State where he has because of his greed messed up governance!

“The fact remains that to say that Wike is a disaster as a Minister is to state the obvious. We advise him to
minimize the damage which he is doing to the Jonathan administration by concentrating on his work instead of busying himself making enemies for the President whom he pretends to be loyally serving but whose downfall he is secretly plotting in keeping with his traitorous nature.

“Instead of President Jonathan addressing enemies
within his cabinet he is busy persecuting and embarrassing his true friends and political associates
that matters in his political calculations!”

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