The political crisis in Rivers State has reached its pinnacle at the weekend following the planned dissolution of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The planned dissolution as we are rightly informed will also affect the Local Government Areas and the wards executives.
According to the source the last year’s April court judgment that brushed Chief G.U. Ake aside as the chairman of the Rivers PDP and declared Hon. Felix Obuah as its new chairman did not dissolve the entire executives of the party, especially at the LGAs and the wards levels.
The said judgment as reported by our political correspondent affected only Chief G.U Ake and the state party secretary, Hon. Adokiye Oruwari, adding that the judgment was silent on other party officers from the state to the wards level.
Hon Elemchukwu Ogbowu is the arrow head of the current struggle to oust the leadership of the party from state down to the wards. Ogbowu is fighting his last fight because he has been expelled from the party for what the leadership of the party calls anti-party activities”.
Though Ogbowu has petitioned the national leadership of the party under the headship of Adamu Muazu, protesting his expulsion.
The reason behind the call for the sack of the PDP exco in the state is to scuttle the gubernatorial ambition of the Minister for State in the Federal Ministry of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike.
Wike’s gubernatorial ambition is no longer hidden as ethnic groups and nationalities on daily basis declare their supports for him.
If the National Working Committee, NWC of the party goes ahead to dissolve the party excos in the state, there is no doubt that it will negatively affect the governorship ambition of Chief Nyesom Wike because the entire excos are under his watch as at the time of filing this report.
However, information before us shown that a court has restrained the NWC of the PDP not to dissolve or change the Rivers exco led by Felix Obuah. This was a tactical move targeted at stopping the party to make any change in this month mini convention.
Meanwhile, a sponsored media campaign to smear the image and hard earned reputation of the Minister of Education for State, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike has been uncovered.
The media campaign which is in form of advertorials with pseudo names is alleging all manner of evil including membership of secret cults which members and leaders are only know to these mischief makers.
There is no gainsaying the fact that the sponsors and unseen hands of the malicious and libelous materials are political opponents and enemies of the PDP leader in Rivers State, Chief Barr Nyesom Wike.
The object of these political cowards is no other but to deceive the unsuspecting members of the public and the highly informed Rivers people who have continued to prevail on the Minister of Education to make himself available for election for the office Governor of the State in 2015 which they know too well that if he accepts, will definitely win.
Though not disturbed by this satanic plot borne out of fear of Barr Wike’s intimidating credentials and rising political profile as well as the lack of confidence in themselves to confront necessary and unavoidable challenge, we are most ready to take it up with anybody who may have taken it upon himself to go outside politics to attack the person and integrity of its leader in the name of politicking.
As an avowed and devout Christian, the Hon Minister of Education, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike does not belong to any other group than the fellowship of Christian believers and wish to challenge these agents of ‘pull him down’, to be bold enough to disclose their identities and the proof of their concocted and baseless allegations.
We however, enjoin the unsuspecting members of the public to discountenance such malicious publications and continue to support and pray for the PDP and its leaders for victory over tyranny, madness and kleptomania to steal and waste Rivers State resources in the name of politics while the reasonable majority of our people are dying in abject poverty as the only reason for the campaign against Chief Barr. Wike is to destroy his character ahead of 2015 election. ###
