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YourKarma:
You and your fellow urchins are a complete disgrace. Did you watch the video at all? That's a road still under construction

substandard road construction

So because they are FUBARA supporters they are now above the law not to be arrested

Papparassi:
Press Release,



The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has condemned the arrest and detention of some loyalists of the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara GSSRS in Abuja on Thursday 18 April 2024, urging the Inspector General of Police to order their release without further delay.

It would be recalled that supporters of Governor Siminialayi Fubara, including Hon. Goodboy Sokari Goodboy, the Lawmaker representing Ahoada East Constituency in the State House of Assembly and Mr Ezebunwo Ichemati were arrested by the Nigeria Police, under the supervision of the Ikwerre local government Council Chairman, Samuel Nwanosike.

Publicity Secretary of the Party, Sydney Tambari Gbara said in reaction to the incident that the arrest was part of plans by enemies of the State to intimidate Fubara's loyalists to provoke crises that could spill over to Rivers State despite efforts by Sir Siminalayi Fubara to maintain peace in the State.

"The arrest at the Wadata House where party men of timber and calibre from the PDP were meeting to forge unity in the rank and file of the party is another sad and embarrassing experience of unending acts of harassment suffered by PDP members loyal to Governor Fubara.
It was unimaginable that associates and supporters of Governors and leaders from other states were cheering their leaders as they arrived at the Wadata House unhindered, those from Rivers who came to identify with Governor Fubara were being harassed, intimidated, arrested and detained by the Police without provocation. We have time without number advise the police to remain neutral and not allow themselves to be used by political jobbers to settle political scores, especially those concerning Rivers State.

The PDP also called on Rivers people, particularly supporters of Governor Fubara to remain strong and unwavering in their commitment to the success of his administration.

Signed:
Tambari Sydney Gbara .
PDP State Publicity Secretary
April 19,2024

socialmediaman:
There’s this rumor that this was a hurried disbursement that was originally scheduled for late 2026 or early 2027, but seeing the good things Peter Obi was doing in the north recently and nothing positive going for the government, they had to do an early disbursement

Win win for suffering Nigerians, but this mistake will not be repeated again in 2027!

good thing by donating substandard borehole ABI ? Thank God northerners warned him never to try such stupidity anywhere in the north

Poor people and over edited pictures are like 5 and 6 mteeeew

Lizzysamuel:
This useless thread was posted by Reno Omokri minions. That if anyone can prove that Peter Obi built a single school.

Well, out of a the schools that Obi built, I have just one picture that I want to use and claim my prize😂.

I will also add bonus pictures of school bus and borehole and gen set that Obi donated to one of the schools during his tenure.

So please, Pastor Reno, how can I calim my money. Thanks

https://www.nairaland.com/8067119/ill-offer-10k-individual-prove#129531644

WIKE is a big asset to any progressive minded person

coputa:
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

ALEX OTTI is a disgrace to good governernce :-

Nigerians are lucky to have TINUBU as president

Comrade WIKE is the father and mother of PDP

Comrade WIKE the commander general of PDP well done

aran:
They say looks alone tell many stories, so what could be going on in FCT minister's mind with that kind of look at Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara?

What's going on...

Stale try again

Minjim:
If no one on Nairaland received or know of anyone that did . Then it's a scam

ok

Ofunaofu:
I appreciate it, but after this, what next?

Alot of profit is next

Chiefpriestt:
Keep defending corruption Akuya

Yonko

Jostoman:
then other nigerians who are not APC member are from zambia.

May be

Ofunaofu:
50k for all they have been true under this calamitous Tinubu regime

#50k is something to someone, try to appreciate .

Jostoman:
Nigerians or Apc member

is APC member no longer Nigerian

Ofunaofu:
Of course Nigeria is progressing with the sharing of N50000 grant

I hope you have received yours

that is evidence for you, FG is actually giving out the money

That's very commendable from seyi MAKINDE

Ofunaofu:
What a monumental achievement never witnessed in the history of this country.

A blue print

Nigerians are proud to have TINUBU as president. Only the bitter ones don't want Nigeria and Nigerians to progress

The same way you were endowed to defraud small Anambra state as governor abi

Straybullet:
God must punish all thieves

gbam

Nothing is missing in kogi state, EFCC should leave the white lion alone

MaziX:
the remaining 5k na incase e cut abi? Mk he use am drink garri

comrade

EFCC please go back to your office, yahaya bello did not mismanaged even #1kobo

ottersberger:
You're obviously pained, as usual.

i am obviously pained at the level of poor Photoshop

Fake news and over edited pictures alert nairalanders

ottersberger:
That's right.

The misinformation FC are busy insinuating that there is a problem with his excellency, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, visiting Mama Charlie's country. I have bad news for the #30k gang, he is currently drinking tea in London while you and your household, to your shame, do not even qualify to apply for a visa.

So, what else do you have to lie about?

This is very commendable from the Lagos state government

Ofunaofu:
It's quite unfortunate that this set of people mistake sycophancy for patriotism and view any constructive criticism against the Tinubu regime as an unpatriotic act, an enemy of progress, but you wonder, Where is the progress? Some of them have gone to the extreme of suggesting that any individual who criticizes Tinubu should be charged with treason.

To them, Tinubu can do no wrong. Tinubu's calamitous economic policies, which have successfully turned the entire country into a huge IDP camp, are the best thing to have ever happened to this country.

These people have taken sycophancy and ass-licking to another level.

How did we get here?

They are always quick to tell you to move on and that Goodluck Jonathan has moved on when reminded of how they criticized Goodluck Jonathan, sponsored protests, and engaged in civil disobedience, but none of them were called enemies of Nigeria, arrested, or charged with treason.

The below quote is for them

"Propaganda does not deceive the people; it merely helps the APC, Tinubu, those working with him, their supporters, Agbadorians, and Bulabans to continue to deceive themselves."

with all this long rubbish, yet you are not saying any meaningful thing mteeeew

Why will the court Grant him bail