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Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by coputa(m): 12:38am On Apr 20 |
By Rex Akindele Politics, they say is a game of interest. No permanent friend, no permanent enemy but permanent interest. But in every sphere of life, there’s morality and a man is best respected by his principles and the values he stand for. There’s this school of thought that says “if you don’t stand for anything, you fall for everything”. This is the crossroad where the former governor of Rivers State and incumbent Minister of the FCT, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike stands. Loud, brutish and loquacious with a touch of arrogance, the APC as a political Party was always the butt of his not so funny jokes while he held sway as governor of Rivers State. Wike rose from the ashes of the crisis that engulfed Rivers State in 2007 after the gubernatorial primaries of the PDP in the State which the then president, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo described as having a K-leg. The winner of that primaries, Rotimi Amaechi with a natural K-leg was not the preferred candidate of the powers that be and he was unceremoniously substituted with Sir Celestine Omeiha to fly the flag of the Party. What ensued after was a pre-election legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. After the general elections which Omeiha won and was inaugurated as governor, the heat became unbearable for Amaechi and he escaped to Ghana on a self-imposed exile. It was Barr. Wike, a former Council Chairman of Obior/Akpor Local Government and close ally of Amaechi that stayed behind to coordinate the legal team and supporters of Amaechi until the case was decided by the Apex Court. In appreciation of the job Wike did while he was away, Gov. Amaechi appointed him as his Chief of Staff during his first term in office. The Chief of Staff in the current system we practice wields a lot of powers and Amaechi, seeing how powerful and ambitious Wike was becoming, decided to cut him to size by not re-appointing him when he won his second term in 2011. Amaechi in one of his interviews, confessed that Wike was getting depressed and when an opportunity came to nominate a Minister from the State, a mutual friend of theirs pleaded with him to consider Wike in order to save him from a mental crisis. That was when Wike was nominated, and appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan as Minister of State for Education in his government. When Governor Amaechi and President Jonathan fell apart, Wike took advantage of the crisis to build a parallel structure for Jonathan in Rivers and when Amaechi joined forces with 4 other PDP governors to create a faction within the PDP known as the New PDP, which later joined the APC, Wike, a cabinet Minister, took charge of PDP in Rivers State as the leader being the highest political office holder from the State. With the entire Party structure in his kitty and as the right hand man of President Jonathan who was contesting for a second term in office, the Governorship ticket of the PDP was an easy pick for Wike and despite the opposition from the then incumbent and his estranged friend, Rotimi Amaechi, Wike rode on the South-South sentiment and the popularity of President Jonathan in the region to clinch the governorship seat. This was Wike’s journey to limelight. I have taken time to explain this to let you see that Wike is a crisispreneur and among active politicians in the country today, he has benefited from crisis the most. That’s why he rejoices whenever he sense a crisis anywhere as crisis to him is like the green grass to the green snake. His involvement with the APC during the last general election was as a result of the crisis that engulfed the PDP after their presidential primaries of 2022 in which he was an aspirant. His role in President Tinubu winning Rivers in 2023 can never be overemphasized but while he presented himself as someone fighting for the interest of Southern Nigeria, he lost what could have been a tremendous goodwill from such act by accepting a ministerial appointment from the president and the Party he had bad-mouthed for 8 years. It means it was all about his personal interest all along, which on its own is not bad if only he can swallow his pride and show some respect for others. Mr Wike’s brazing use of his vantage position as a cabinet Minister in an opposition government to interfere with the governance of his home State of Rivers without reservation is becoming a moral burden for the Tinubu administration. Crisis of mistrust and disloyalty is common between successive governors and their predecessors in Nigeria since the inception of this democratic dispensation and on all occasions, the sitting governor always have the sympathy of the people. At present, like Rivers, there’s a cold war in other States between governors and their benefactors, particularly in Benue State where Senator George Akume, a former governor of the State and incumbent Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and his anointed governor, a Catholic Priest turned politician, Fr. Hyacinth Alia are fighting for supremacy. Senator Akume has maintained a dignified silence and conducted himself in a manner befitting of a high profile government appointee while allowing his men to battle it out with the governor. In the case of Mr Wike, he talks at every given opportunity in a demeaning language directing his missiles not only to his State governor but also to any elder that dare to associate with the governor. Some of those words are not even good enough to be used on an opponent not to talk of members of the same political Party. His supporters continue to abandon him on daily basis as it seems the communities are now turning against those fighting the governor. Rivers State is a very delicate State. One of the oil producing States in the country that has the privilege of serving as the operational base of most oil companies in the region. It used to be the hotbed of militant activities until the intervention of late President Umaru Yar’Adua who introduced an amnesty programme to appease aggrieved youths fighting many years of neglect and insensitivity to the plight of their people. Today, anything that threatens the peace of Rivers State is a threat to national security and it’s becoming obvious from the tone of Elders, traditional leaders and stakeholders of the region that the Minister of the FCT is seen more as a threat to peace in the State, a character unbecoming of someone who served as Chief Security Officer of the State for 8 years. On the political side, Wike is lost between the devil and the deep blue sea. After the 2023 general election where the PDP failed woefully due to some decisions and miscalculations of her presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Wike was supposed to be the rallying point of aggrieved stakeholders and frustrated supporters of the Party. He was being looked upon, along side members of his G-5, to become the new face of the opposition in the country and give the Party new direction until he tumbled from his Olympia height. He had Governor Ortom, the former governor of Benue State who was a torn in the flesh of the Buhari led APC administration with him. But by choosing to serve as minister in an opposition government, he lost the trust of his fellow ‘comrades’ and the first to abandon him was the only remaining governor among them, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. His appointment as Minister from Rivers, with Mr President not giving extra consideration to the State in order to accommodate someone from the original APC family, threw the APC into confusion. Today, while the national secretariat of the APC dissolved the State Working Committee and installed Wike’s loyalists in a caretaker capacity, Wike remained a PDP member in the day and APC at night thereby allowing both Parties to suffer in the State as he continue to play the double game. Lovers of multi-Party democracy will definitely question President Tinubu’s democratic credentials on the account of this. A virile democracy strives on the foundation of a strong and healthy opposition and the President will do his image in the international community a lot of good if he concentrate on strengthening his Party rather than being seen as destroying the opposition. Regardless the number of State Assembly members standing with the minister, it’s a near impossibility to impeach the governor as the State will go up in flames. Seen as the first person to emerge as governor of the State from the riverine communities since the return of democracy in 1999, Gov Fubara has played the ethnic card very well to his advantage. He has also succeeded in harvesting all the other former governors who were also at the receiving end of Wike’s arrogance, vindictiveness and winner-takes-all approach to politics. It has now come to the public that with all the noise from Rivers during his time as governor, Local Government workers were denied the statutory minimum wage of ₦30,000 and for 8 years, their promotion was stagnated. The national leadership of NULGE had to send a powerful delegation to governor Fubara to commend him for righting the wrongs of the past by implementing minimum wage for local government employees in the State and effecting their backlog of promotions. If these and more is been done to ingratiate himself to the people, Fubara has succeeded to a great extent as it continue to eat into any godwill left of Mr Wike as his former trusted allies throng the government house in Port Harcourt on daily basis to pay homage to the governor and pledge their allegiance. If an election were to be conducted in Rivers State today, can Wike still be able to deliver for Mr President? The answer is a big NO and the situation will get worse with time. It is therefore high time President Tinubu begin to see Wike as a political liability and social disaster by reaching out to other stakeholders and making new friends in Rivers State in order to safeguard his political future in the Niger Delta. Akindele wrote this piece from Kubwa, FCT and can be reached at rexakindele2000@gmail.com 3 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by yarimo(m): 1:36am On Apr 20 |
WIKE is a big asset to any progressive minded person coputa: 10 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Ofunaofu: 2:07am On Apr 20 |
yarimo: Who is a progressive minded person? |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Sannisege: 2:56am On Apr 20 |
People that can’t even win a local government election will feel that they have the capacity to advice the great Asiwaju, the god of Nigerian politics. 3 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Iamanoited: 3:55am On Apr 20 |
THE TWO ARE WISE AND ADROIT. |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Onogiede(m): 5:16am On Apr 20 |
Sannisege:did ur satanic APC actually won the election? I beg shift comut from here. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by helinues: 6:16am On Apr 20 |
The oppositions are still crying about the Wicked Wike... 10 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by ddippset(m): 6:25am On Apr 20 |
Ideally and in a sane clime, he should be a big stain and a huge embarrassment to the government or anything he goes close to. But the government already lacks decency, honour and reputation. A government that has persons like Tinubu as President, Shettima as VP, Akpabio as Senate President, Ganduje as National chairman,,,, What more shame could a Nyesom Wike add to such a government? 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by BigkokoRep: 6:30am On Apr 20 |
The Night of the Long knives is fast approaching! Good morning to Wike! better go use your cutlass hold sides ohhhh. This hush hush signaling dey receive, go soon turn reality for you! Asiwaju don settle you, 2027 is the new bae! |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by ddippset(m): 6:34am On Apr 20 |
Sannisege:What is great about Asiwaju? Did he found Microsoft? Or did he discover cure for Covid or even Malaria?? What makes him great? |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by victorclean(f): 6:47am On Apr 20 |
Without Wike s vote Tinubu still wins the election by far margin. He is a blessing as a tool to destabilize SE and SS. By giving him money, he throws away his sense. Remember he drinks ogogoro a lot and exactly like Rajudeen Agbade, mc oluomo etc but was given political appointments through Peter Odili 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by FatherOfJesus: 7:01am On Apr 20 |
The next election in Rivers will reveal the political might of Wike. Until then, we wait |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by ObiPandora: 7:02am On Apr 20 |
Is that because he is not Igbo from your 5 Igbo state n because he does not support the bastard Pandora curse criminal Peter Pandora Obi ?! ddippset: 4 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by richiemcgold: 7:28am On Apr 20 |
Wike is both a liability and asset to Mr President, but Tinubu knows how to play this kind of game; he is not a baby politician. Wike and Funbara are the enemies here, Tinubu and Wike are not enemies, Tinubu and Funbara too are not enemies. If you read his actions on Rivers crisis very well, his aim is to make sure both of them work for his reelection in 2027; just the same way they did in 2023. 3 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by garykoeman: 7:34am On Apr 20 |
ddippset: Peter obi is not in any different from those people u mentioned, stop being a tribalist. 1 Like |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Nonexisting1: 7:46am On Apr 20 |
It's good to have an acquaintance like Wike but it's wise to keep him at arm's length. He is mostly a liability but also a good asset in time of despair. I'm sure Tinubu understands this which is why he is handling Wike's troubles quietly. Everyone has a friend like that, I have one too. 1 Like
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Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Soulsymbol99: 9:04am On Apr 20 |
Both |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by lionshare: 9:50am On Apr 20 |
I suspect this writer is on Fubara's payroll because he alluded that Wike is in currently in-charge of both APC & PDP in rivers state yet concluded he cannot win election in the same state. 3 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by helinues: 10:01am On Apr 20 |
Ofunaofu: Those who wish the best for their country 1 Like |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by ddippset(m): 10:12am On Apr 20 |
garykoeman:Stop being silly anonymously. At least if you want to be silly, do it in real life not on the net. I don't have anything to do with Peter Obi. I am not from the South East. This topic has nothing to do with Peter Obi. And yes, Peter Obi is better than all the above mentioned... |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by AcadaWriter: 10:17am On Apr 20 |
Both |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by ddippset(m): 10:17am On Apr 20 |
ObiPandora:And what if I am not Ibo? Honestly it's kind of idiotic to just assume people's bio info in a faceless place. And since he's so good if I pray for you for your children to turn out in attitude like Wike I hope you can say Amen to it! And yes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by id4sho(m): 10:19am On Apr 20 |
Wike is a asset to Tinubu but if Wike gets PDP ticket in 2027 . My hand no dey oOoOO 2 Likes |
Re: Is Wike An Asset Or A Liability To Tinubu by Bulldozer90: 11:00pm On Apr 22 |
Wike loathes Tinubu more than atiku hates Tinubu. He is the weak link in Tinubu's government. He will use the influence Tinubu is giving him against him when momentum builds up in the north against Tinubu. |
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