governors of the People Democratic Party (PDP) are the major problem of
opposition party in the country even as some of them were lobbying to
travel with General Muhammadu Buhari.
Frank said aside governor Wike of Rivers state, so many of other
opposition party governors are daily lobbying to be in the good books of
General Buhari, hence they don’t talk on national issues affecting
Nigerians negatively.
Reacting to a media report that the PDP was planning to stage a
nationwide protest against the Supreme Court ruling in Imo, Frank said
the move is belated.
“PDP’s planned protest is medicine after death, why didn’t they protest
when the former CJN Onnogen was forcefully removed from office? Why
didn’t they protest when the last presidential election was rigged in
favour of APC by INEC and the Army? Why didn’t they protest when Supreme
Court unjustly threw out presidential election appeal? Today Nigerians
are seeing the result of the forceful removal of Onnogen from office;
it’s a bit late for PDP to protest.”
The Bayelsa born activist specifically condemned in strong term the Abia
state governor, who was seen on Friday travelling to London with General
Buhari at a time his colleague in Imo (Emeka) was removed as governor.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, Frank
said it is shameful that PDP has 16 governors and only one or two is
committed to the cause of the party.
“Some PDP governors are the problem of Nigeria, some of them go to the
extent of lobbying the cabal to travel out with the President so as to
be on his good books, they are selfish, corrupt, over ambitious and
shameless.
“Some of them betrayed the PDP during the last presidential election,
and gave the APC 25% in their states in return for not being prosecuted
after they leave office and to win their 2nd term.”
According to Frank, a sitting PDP governor said: “If you say you dey
there (APC), know I am already there. If you go to APC, I am an APC
member. If you go to PDP, I am there”, what did the PDP as a party say
or do? The PDP as a party could not caution or penalize him and now they
want to protest?
“Apart from the governor of Rivers state Nyesom Wike and sometimes, the
Benue state governor Samuel Ortom, other PDP governors are PDP by the
day and APC by night; they fraternize with the APC thereby rendering PDP
incapacitated and unable to function properly and cannot play the role
of an effective opposition.
“Nigerians are being taken for a ride by the APC administration and the
PDP can’t do anything to checkmate government because most of the PDP
members and especially some governors are compromised, otherwise they
could have fought Buhari the same way the opposition governors fought
Jonathan, whereas those governors refused to compromise during
Jonathan’s tenure.
“Nigerians should observe that apart from Governor Wike and Governor
Ortom, no other PDP governor dares to criticize Buhari and even make any
statement about national issues. If there is any governor that Buhari
and the APC would have loved to remove, it is Governor Wike; this is
because he is not PDP by the day and APC by night, which is the reason
why he has the support of his people and despite all the persecution by
the federal government, he still stands tall.”
While urging other PDP governors to emulate Governor Wike so that
posterity will judge them well, Frank said: “It is better for these
governors to decamp to APC so Nigerians and the world can see them for
who they truly are, after all once you decamp to APC; all your sins
(Looting and corruption) are forgiven.
“To show you how incompetent some of the PDP governors are, the Abia
state PDP governor Okezie Ikpeazu, flew to London with Buhari and some
APC members in the presidential jet, barely 3 days after a PDP governor
colleague of his from the same South-east was robbed through the Supreme
Court and his seat given to APC. He was seen smiling and grinning from
ear to ear like a child that just tasted chocolate for the first time in
his life.
“Instead of telling APC the truth, Ikpeazu is fraternizing with them the
same day the PDP was having its NEC meeting, He abandoned the meeting
and flew with Buhari to London, as that is more important to him than
attending PDP meeting, the party that gave him a platform to become
governor.
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth, no amount of fraternizing with
Buhari and the APC can save any looting governor when the day of
reckoning comes.
“Nigerians are helpless today at the hands of APC because some PDP
governors have compromised for their selfish interest but they should
remember that they are not God, only God knows how all these will pan
out tomorrow,” Timi Frank said.