ABATI'S INVECTIVES ON GOVERNOR NYESOM WIKE
– The Puerile Diatribes Of A Political 'Hallelujah Boy'

By Hon. Michael John Williams[sup][/sup]

The unprovoked outburst of erstwhile Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan and media practitioner, Dr. Reuben Abati, where he threw caution to the wind, by attacking the person and office of the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike, is to say the least, very unfortunate and unbecoming of a supposed veteran journalist

Abati, who should know better, as a supposed 'unteachable' journalist, chose to discuss personality, rather than issues.

He failed to separate his personal interest by dispassionately looking at the critical issues, raised by Governor Wike in his referenced statement by Abati that the Arise TV crew failed to ask pertinent questions to their Guest and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, during his recent interview.

Abati in his infamous outing, displayed the highest level of incivility, meddlesomeness, crudity and pettiness, in a sordid manner, most Nigerians viewed as a desperate move by a political 'hallelujah boy' (praise-singer) and self-appointed spokesman of Atiku, ostensibly to curry favour from him (Atiku) to be appointed a media spokesman.

Abati, the new volunteer spokesman of Atiku, who sadly lost his voice and failed to perform the role of a Presidential Spokesman, under Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, when the likes of Lai Mohammed and the All Progressives Congress (APC) launched coordinated media propaganda to badmouth his administration, despite Dr. Jonathan's sterling achievements in all sectors of the economy, has now finally found his voice.

The same Reuben Abati, who lacked electoral value in 2019, worked against the overall interest of the PDP by conniving with his erstwhile associate, late Sen. Buruji Kashamu and conducted parallel primaries to emerge governorship and deputy governorship candidates respectively in Ogun State, but failed woefully in the general elections, trailing a distant fourth position in the following order;

1st: APC –241,670 votes

2nd: APM –222,153 votes

3rd: ADC –110,422 votes

4th: PDP –70,290 votes.

Reuben Abati, who refused to accept the candidacy of the PDP National Working Committee-backed Ladi Adebutu, but rather chose to rock the boat, lacks the capacity and moral justification to talk about a committed party man, like Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, whom he (Abati) acknowledged in his puerile diatribe that singlehandedly stood-by and rescued the party from the brinks of political oblivion, when many other fair-weather politicians, including Abati, either decamped, withdrew or lost their voices completely.

Governor Wike, who had been a faithful of the PDP since its formation in 1998, had repeatedly maintained his resolve to support any candidate that emerges from the party's primary election. And by the grace of God, he has remained committed to that assurance till date.

However, unfolding events in the party's post primary election, give the governor and other critical stakeholders, who genuinely love the PDP and wish it well, grave concern, as fifth columnists and other Interlopers are now scrambling to reap from where they did not sow, by doing everything within their whims and caprices, including sowing seeds of discord amongst party members.

Unlike Reuben Abati, who failed woefully to actualize his obvious lifelong deputy governorship ambition in Ogun State, His Excellency, Chief Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, GSSRS, POS Africa, is a fulfilled politician, who is currently a second term governor, having previously served as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief of Staff in Rivers State Government and two times Chairman of Council in Obio/Akpor LGA of Rivers State.

He is a brave, courageous and outspoken leader, who is not only a force in the PDP and his home state, but equally commands a large pool of followership across the length and breadth of Nigeria.

In quick response to Abati's puerile enquiry of where Governor Wike was in 1985, when he purportedly started Journalism practice, Governor Nyesom Wike was at the period, grooming himself for leadership.

Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike, as a strong pillar of the PDP has every right to express his feelings, and can not be cowed by fair-weather politicians like Reuben Abati, the political journalist.

The media as the fourth estate of the realm and watchdogs of the society, should be divorced from Abati's partisan politics and grandstanding.

Abati should come out and play full-time politics or practice Journalism with professionalism, by upholding its tenets of objectivism and responsibility.

The PDP and its Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar needs the support of every committed party member to win the 2023 elections, not the self-serving shenanigans of some political mercenaries.

As we gravitate towards the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar should do the needful by urgently putting the PDP house in order and avoid the wrong Counsel of Ahithophels, before it is too late.


Hon. Michael John Williams

Don't mind people like Abati who after ruining PDP ran to hide in Arise to save face and today has the temerity to Insults the man Wike who kept our party alive for 7 solid years ..if Wike had behave like all of them Atiku included, would there be any PDP to even fight over today..Just look at Abati that despite all the material gain he made from PDP has not been able to deliver his ward once or install even PDP councilor since 2015