A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of
\nthe All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has replied the
\nAbia state governor Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, describing the governor as a
\nmole in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n
The governor had on Sunday issued a statement attacking the former APC
\nspokeman over his earlier statement that most PDP governors were not
\ncommitted to the opposition politics in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
But responding back to Ikeazu through another statement on Monday,
\nComrade Frank, said rather than apologise for the misadventure,\u00a0 “the
\nAbia state governor’s shallow defence as to why he chose to jet out with
\nthe President at the expense of his party’s National Executive Council
\n(NEC) meeting buttressed the belief in some quarters that he is indeed
\nan All Progressives Congress (APC) mole even as a PDP governor.<\/p>\n
“In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Queen Gertrude said: “The lady doth
\nprotest too much, methinks”. She did this in reference to the insincere
\noveracting of a character in the play.<\/p>\n
“From that day to today, nothing has changed. Insincerity is most
\nobvious in overly dramatic denials. And this is what we see with Okezie
\nVictor Ikpeazu’s response to my candid observation.<\/p>\n
“The popular saying that an old woman is always uneasy at the mention of
\ndry bones manifested itself in the reply of the incompetent Governor of
\nAbia State, Okezie Ikpeazu to my statement I criticised him for hopping
\noff to London with President Muhammadu Buhari in the midst of a serious
\nnational and political onslaught against the Peoples Democratic Party
\n(PDP), in Imo State.<\/p>\n
“Playing the ostrich, Ikpeazu pinned his trip with the President to the
\nUK-Africa Investment Summit on the quest market his proposed Enyimba
\nEconomic City Project to foreign investors.<\/p>\n
“Does a man go on a jamboree when his house is on fire? That is the
\nquestion that Ikpeazu should answer rather than play acting in his
\nprotests that represent his guilty conscience.”<\/p>\n
The Bayelsa born activist also cleared the air over the allegagtion made
\nby the governor that he (Framk) was used and dumped by the APC saying:
\n“Let it be known to the indolent Governor that I resigned from the All
\nProgressives Congress and refused to hero-worship General Buhari when
\nthe APC derailed and began to pursue anti-people agenda rather than what
\nthey promised Nigerians. How can I then be compared to an Ikpeazu, whose
\nsycophantic laugh almost tore his mouth while he was throwing himself at
\nGeneral Buhari, to secure his post gubernatorial future?<\/p>\n
“For the records, I stood my grounds while in the APC and I resigned my
\nposition as a principled person and not because of any political gain.
\nAnd since the governor talks about political worth and jobbing, perhaps
\nit is pertinent to expose him at this juncture for who he truly is.<\/p>\n
“That Ikpeazu calls himself a national leader of the PDP is self
\ndelusional dream. Within the party, he is known for what he is, an
\nunreliable person who would rather jamboree while there is fire at his
\ndoorstep. In case he does not know, Ikpeazu is as relevant to the PDP as
\nthe “P” in psychology.<\/p>\n
“It is most unfortunate that in Ikpeazu’s little world and mindset, it
\nis only with the President that he can get attention. this reflects his
\nlack of initiative, drive and dynamism to push any project to
\nprofitability.”<\/p>\n
On the reason why the governor traveled with the President, Frank
\nbelieve that “projects such as Tinapa in Cross River state and the
\nmechanised farm in Kwara state, sold themselves out to foreign investors
\non account of well-thought-out and executed marketing strategies which
\nthe governors of the states embarked on at the time and not because they
\ncarried empty brief cases on presidential trips looking for
\nuninterrupted hours of snitching and mundane political theatrics with
\nthe\u00a0 President.<\/p>\n
” One wonder the kinds of investors Ikpeazu is looking for in UK when he
\nis one of the worst governor who doesn’t pay regular salary in his
\nstate.”<\/p>\n
On why the governor is a mole in the PDP, Frank said Ikpeazu was among
\nthe PDP governors that gave General Buhari and the APC 25 per cent vote
\nin return for 2nd term, “in short, Ikpeazu is a confirmed PDP by day and
\nAPC by night.<\/p>\n
“The Abia governor capitulated\u00a0 when he posited in his reply that, ‘Much
\nas Governor Ikpeazu is not responsible for Timi’s unguarded spleen, no
\nleader would prefer to attend a party meeting to attending a Summit
\nwhere his ideas and programs for his people will be beamed at the global
\nstage.’<\/p>\n
“If for the sake of argument we yield to this convoluted reasoning of
\nhis, is he also saying that that the PDP’s NEC was not worth the
\nattention of his deputy? Clearly he was sending a clear message of
\ndisdain to the party to impress his pay masters.<\/p>\n
“When I alluded to Ikpeazu as a political hatchet man and mole for the
\nAPC, no fact underscores this than the 2015 and 2019 presidential
\nelection results in Abia State.<\/p>\n
“Can Ikpeazu who regards himself as a PDP national leader explain to
\nNigerians how General Buhari and the APC scored 13,394 votes against the
\nPDP’s 368,303 in the 2015 presidential election – removing from the list
\nof states that the APC had 25 per cent and then clearly explain to
\nNigerians, how in 2019 presidential elections, the APC and General
\nBuhari scored 85,058 and PDP PDP scored a depleted 219, 698 votes?<\/p>\n
“The simple answer to this eye popping revelation is the liability
\nIkpeazu is to the PDP and the reason he is all cheeks in smile with the
\nPresident and perhaps while he will continue to be a sacred cow at the
\nSupreme Court.<\/p>\n
“May it not be the lot of Abians and the PDP in particular that tax
\npayers money is being blown on the altar of presidential patronage and
\nclandestine investor chase.<\/p>\n
“Ikpeazu can catch his fun and be a political undertaker, however, the
\nPDP and Abia people deserve more compassion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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