We read with huge laughter, the latest drivel published by Chief Eze
Chukwuemeka Eze captioned in his usual verbose style and titled:
“Eze to Wike on IPOB: Your bizarre propaganda against Amaechi is
ill-conceived, wicked, sad, unfortunate & diabolic.. Reminds Governor of
how he used IPOB mob to win 2015, 2019 elections… Says it’s illogical
to claim same IPOB which attacked Amaechi in a foreign land now works
for him.”
Truth be told, the entire article, from beginning to end is just, plain,
tired, over flogged, incoherent garbage. His anger is that Governor
Nyesom Wike, during a recent AIT Television Interview, accused
Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, as the political
figure behind the Oyigbo carnage by IPOB, in which 10 police and Army
officers were killed and Chief Eze described Governor Wike’s comment;
“as a mountain of illusion merely palpitating in the web of a debacle”.
I mean, who uses this kind of language anymore in this day and age? This
is actually the kind of archaic, stone age language that the #EndSARS
protesters were even protesting against; the language of old men who
still want to feel relevant and confuse the youths with their analogue
thinking and grammar in an age when the world has gone digital. What a
pity.
One thing that has become obvious when reading Chief Eze’s
‘gobbledegook’ to borrow one of his own ancient vocabularies, is that
the old man appears to wake up periodically in a time loop firmly
located in a past era when Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi was Governor of
Rivers State and then launches himself into whatever topic is trending,
with scant knowledge or understanding of the realities of his present
situation.
So, to jog his memory a bit and rouse his obvious dementia, we refer to
an excerpt from his convoluted headline which reads;…”Reminds Governor
(Wike) of how he used IPOB mob to win 2015, 2019 elections…” and ask
him how exactly did Governor Wike use the “IPOB Mob” to win two
consecutive elections back to back convincingly and comprehensively.
The only answer is that the Igbo community in Rivers State, which IPOB
erroneously claims to represent, voted massively for Governor Wike in
the two elections and the Rivers Governor, like the true statesman and
leader he is, has always acknowledge this, even in his recent meeting
with the leaders of the non-indigenes community in Rivers State, on
Monday, November 2nd, 2020.
Let us equally remind Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, in case he has
deliberately decided to forget, that this same Igbo community, which he
describes as “IPOB Mob”, also voted massively for Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi for Governor by proxy as a PDP Candidate in 2007 and directly
and even more emphatically in 2011, when interestingly, Chief Barr.
Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike was the Director-General of the campaign Council
that delivered his victory.
As for Oyigbo, it’s important to inform and educate Chief Chukwuemeka
Eze of the criminal activities and menace of IPOB in that local
government area, as it’s hoodlums hijacked a peaceful #EndSARS protest
in Rivers State, to wreck havoc and destruction on the community.
For starters, the Federal Government had declared the Indigenous Peoples
of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist, seperatists group and Governor Wike
reinforced the proscription, yet the outlawed group went ahead and
killed 6 soldiers, 4 policemen and burnt down all police stations and
court buildings in Oyigbo.
The security agencies and indeed most Rivers people are aware that IPOB
has also used Oyigbo as a launching ground for its nefarious activities,
but because they had not been called to order over the years, they now
made the unfortunate attempt to rename a local government in Rivers
State, in clear disregard and contravention of a supreme court ruling
and the declaration of the Federal boundary adjustment commission.
As at today, Oyigbo, despite the massive influx of Nigerians from
neighbouring states, especially Abia, is a legally certified, bonafide
local government amongst the 23 LGAs in Rivers State and under the
protective authority and administration of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
Oyigbo indigenes, naturalized and settlers are full fledged Rivers
people and the Local Government has a member representing the area in
the Rivers State House of Assembly and not in another state, yet the
audacity of IPOB in Rivers State was revealed, when security agencies
during their search of some residents in Oyigbo, saw shrines with IPOB
flags and the photographs of their fugitive leader Nnamdi Kanu which
sent out the red signal that, if IPOB is allowed to continue to operate
from Oyigbo, it will soon overrun the State.
IPOB even hoisted it’s seperatist flag in Komkom town in Oyigbo; an
audacious indication that it had annexed the town like Boko Haram did in
some parts of the North and Intelligence reports also revealed that the
Ikokwu area of the state capital, was host to a lot of IPOB illegal
cells which prompted the decision to impose a curfew on that axis.
The fact remains that even the Governors of the South-East, where IPOB
claims to draw their strength, have never supported the group and even
asked the Federal Government to legalize it’s proscription, so why
should a Governor from the Niger Delta tolerate IPOB?
Even the Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who many Rivers people, including Chief
Eze Chukwuemek Eze know so well, would never have allowed this
deliberate effrontery and impunity in any of his local government areas,
when he was Governor of Rivers State. That of course may have been the
reason why IPOB attacked him in Spain, because they know him well.
It is also germane to point out here that just days after disgracefully
embarrassing and making a fool of himself by openly rejecting a gift
from Governor Nyesom Wike under a spurious excuse of impassable roads
and the, unfounded allegation that the Governor says “he does not even
know me from Adam”, Hon. Promise Chisom Dike, member representing Tai,
Eleme, Oyigbo Federal constituency in the National Assembly, decamped
from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress,
APC, in September, 2020.
Addressing only his Igbo supporters in flawless Igbo language, in a
Federal constituency he represents, that also has Tai and Eleme
constituents, on the day of his decamping, his words, as captured on
video, were very explicit and instructive. He said: “We have to tell the
whole state and Oyigbo people that we are the people that make things
happen in this local government. Let us go and join our brothers in APC.
They are young people like us so let us go and collaborate with them…”
He has moved with his over 5, 000 supporters to APC and we all know who
the maximum leader and dictator of the party is in Rivers State. It is
also important to point out that these are the same people IPOB claims
to be representing and in whose name and agenda “to make things happen”,
that Soldiers and Policemen were killed and Courts and police stations
were burnt down by IPOB. So when Governor Wike accuses the
Transportation Minister of being behind the unrest and carnage in
Oyigbo, the facts on ground support him completely.
As for Governor Nyesom Wike’s rising political profile, only a demented
old psychophant, who has been living in a time loop since 2015, will
claim that he is not aware of the burgeoning pedigree of the Rivers
State Governor, who has emerged in the last five years, as the only
Governor who speaks the minds and voices the expectations and desires of
the people. He has transformed from “Mr. Projects” to become the peoples
Governor and a champion of the South South and the new slogan from
Rivers State to virtually all parts of Nigeria is that: “Wike is Working
and Winning.”
By the way, just in case Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze is not aware, 5, 000
jobs for Rivers youths are coming, civil servants in the state have
started enjoying the consequential adjustments of the new minimum wage,
the Rivers State Cassava processing company is already running and ready
to employ over 3, 000 Rivers youths and provide a solid platform for
hundreds of sideline medium/small entrepreneurs, the Real Madrid
football Academy has also advertised for massive recruitment in academic
and non-academic staff positions
The state-owned farms and assets are all up for concessioning with
thousands of jobs already bookmarked for Rivers youths. The formalities
for the Water Resources project which will upgrade 496 kilometres of
pipeline and produce 330,000 cubic litres of potable water per day, has
been done and dusted and would create 1,200 direct jobs and over 5,000
indirect jobs.
And here’s the icing on the cake; the commissioning of the legacy
flyovers will commence from November 7, 2020, with the Rebisi (Garrison)
flyover, thus fulfilling Governor Nyesom Wike’s promise of delivering
them by the end of the year. Governor Wike has also redeemed the N200
million Naira pledge he made to the family and children of the 10
soldiers and policemen killed by IPOB and confirmed that he will rebuild
all the burnt police stations and courts to standard levels just like
everything he builds.
Old, sleepy, outdated folks like Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze who are still
living in the past, should wake up and smell the coffee and accept the
fact that Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike is the man and leader at the
forefront of leading Rivers State, the South-South region and indeed
Nigeria to a new dawn and glorious future for our youths and our people.
We at Rivers Patriotic Front are indeed proud of our leader, Nyesom
Ezenwo Wike.
Signed:
Ekine James
President, Rivers Patriotic Front
Johnbull Jenson
Rivers Patriotic Front