The Newswriter Newspaper authoritatively gathered that the Supervising Minister for Education, Chief Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike will finally bow out of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the month of July to pursue his gubernatorial ambition come 2015.
Information reaching our political desk had it that the Federal Minister has concluded plans to quit the FEC. If Chief Wike quits President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’ administration by July and declares his ambition to take over power from the out going Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, it would put to an end the rumour making rounds that Wike will not contest the 2015 governorship election. “Chief Wike is fully prepared to contest,” a source revealed to our political correspondent.
July 27, 2014 dependable sources informed this weekly that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be in Port Harcourt, for a PDP South-South Unity rally.
It will be an avenue where Wike might clearly made his gubernatorial ambition known to the Rivers people. The President might also use the forum to declare his ambition to run for second term in office.
Chief Wike, a pragmatic and grassroots politician does not rest on his oars in his ambition to become the next governor of Rivers State, despite the lot of opposition emanating from the riverine communities, especially the Kalabari axis of the state.
The Supervising Federal Minister for Education had visited prominent politicians in his bid to capture the Brick House in 2015. Beside this, Chief Wike had also paid visit to some ex-agitators in the Niger Delta namely: Amb. Sobomabo Jackrich alias Egeripapa. Egberipapa is the leader of Kengema Unity Forum, KUF. He is one of the advocates of a Kalabari governor in 2015. Wike had gone round all the nooks and crannies of the state, the areas he had not reached has already been visited by his pet political group known as the Grassroot Development Initiative (GDI).
Wike delivered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state from the hands of a tyrannical government under the leadership of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
The Governor has since left the party and moved to opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). Though Wike’s ambition is facing stiff opposition, however so many ethnic nationalities have endorsed him as the next governor of Rivers State come 2015. According to them, Wike is the only grassroots politician for now to deliver the state for the ruling PDP, else the party might be crushed to pieces by Amaechi’s political force.
Meanwhile, some politicians under the aegis of Rivers Ijaws had on Monday met at Yenegoa, the capital city of Bayelsa. Top on their agenda was “who occupies the Brick House in 2015.”
The Newswriter gathered that the intention of the Monday’s meeting was to devise ways to stop Wike from contesting the gubernatorial primary in August, 2014.
According to one of the politicians who attended the meeting told our political correspondent that, “the reason why we met was to stop Wike from contesting because we know that if he is allowed to contest, he (Wike) will win. All the party executives are with him, so there is nothing we can do than to protest so that he will not contest.”
We were also hinted that, if PDP fails to produce a governorship candidate from the riverine communities then the Rivers Ijaws would team up and produce a gubernatorial candidate on the APC platform to ensure that the dream of a riverine Governor in 2015 is actualized. ###
