2023 PDP Ticket: Wike and His ‘Port Harcourt Boy’ Mentality by Senior Fyneface
Editor's note: Senior Fyneface, a public affairs commentator, in this piece berates Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers on his conduct, especially concerning the affairs of the PDP. Fyneface writes from No 3D Elelewon Street, GRA II, Port Harcourt, and can be reached via senior_fyneface@yahoo.com.
Whether his hailers want to hear this or not, there is something not adding up in the public mannerism of the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, and pretending that all is well, will only cheer him up on the current path of self destruct that he is dangerously cruising on.
How can a man who is supposed to be a leader by the reason of the office he occupies be the one quarreling with almost everybody around him? Wike openly insults Rivers state traditional rulers at public functions only to go up north and bow for the Emirs there. He ridicules people from certain ethnic nationalities in the state including the Kalabaris, Ogonis, Etches, and Oyigbos amongst several others. Even in his opposition to PDP, he has arrogated to himself the office of a know-it-all and the careless talking governor of PDP governors. Haba!
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At the slightest chance, he says unprintable things against his predecessor, Chibuike Amaechi, and has made the battering of the man who did so much for him a usual pastime. Wike should be told in the language he understands very well, which obviously is Ikwerre that he is using his own mouth to destroy whatever acceptability he has from Rivers people and even to lots of people from outside the state.
He can keep denying, but truth is that it is now strongly believed in the PDP that the serial uncouth utterances of the Rivers state governor is beginning to depict his desperation to plug himself in the party’s presidential ticket as a haven knowing he will soon finish his tenure as governor and become an ordinary citizen that Rivers people can ask questions concerning accountability in expending state resources under his watch.
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Why is Wike spending Rivers' money travelling around the country, what is the consulting for? What could he have been telling the governors of the states he has visited?
When he said recently that he is committed to doing anything that will ensure PDP returns to power in 2023, “and begin once again the process of rebuilding the nation after years of All Progressives Congress (APC) poor governance,” he was correct. But that was just a part of the story. The other part which he did not say was that he is doing everything possible to force himself on the PDP ticket come 2023.
True as he said, the outcome of the party’s presidential election will shock many.
As he said, the PDP will not give its presidential ticket to any candidate who will serve only the interest of the wealthy few in Nigeria. This is as he revealed that some desperate politicians are already scheming for a candidate who will not serve the interest of the many, rather the interest of just those of the wealthy few.
Is it not irrational to affirm that the PDP will work with any candidate who picks the presidential ticket while at the same time he keeps on making undecorated remarks at some of the presidential hopefuls of the party, especially those he perceives as obvious threats?
It is expected that if Governor Wike has a presidential ambition himself or is supporting someone else, he should be focused on advocating for such aspirations, rather than always throwing gratuitous attacks on aspirants he perceives as threat to his immoderate ambition.
Today, there are 13 PDP governors in the country. Who made Wike the chief spokesperson of the party or even the PDP Governors’ Forum? Why is Governor Wike the only one always talking about the 2023 election and consistently throwing jabs at all and sundry in the party?
Why does Wike think that he can talk for the delegates of the party? As far as the primary election for the PDP presidential ticket is concerned, Governor Wike has only one vote. He, therefore, has no right to think and act on behalf of esteemed delegates of the PDP.
Wike should simply mind his business and refocus his energy on his ongoing consultations across the country for his presidential ambition and/or covert campaign for his preferred candidate the shock soon to be unravelled. He would do himself more good by working on his public demeanour and focusing on his own consultation and unfolding his political and socio-economic blueprint.
It is becoming obvious that it is for lack of what to tell Nigerians that Governor Wike continues to haul insults and diatribes against whoever he perceives as a threat to his ambition including Amaechi, traditional rulers, and key political stakeholders in Rivers state and across the country. This should stop!
He needs to be reminded that his “achievements” at the Universal Basic Education (UBEC) which was well captured and documented is still being kept in view by the appropriate agencies and so he should advise himself as usually said to senior military officers.
It would be recalled that the first time Wike was nominated as a minister under the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan; there was a public outcry about the then-president nominating a character with unprintable names as a member of the Federal Executive Council. We dare say that it is a shame that by his conduct up till now, and especially on his uncouth vituperation against all and sundry particularly his predecessor, Amaechi, he is only confirming what people at the national stage assessed him to be.
That issue of his becoming a minister is actually where the main issue between him and his predecessor lies. He is still nursing that wound and hell-bent on paying Amaechi back in whatever coin.
And that’s why he is also still finding it so difficult to forgive Atiku since 2019 PDP presidential primaries in Port Harcourt, despite Atiku’s warm-hearted moves towards him after the convention. He is still feeling humiliated and out on a revenge mission. How can a man who says he believes in the God of heaven carry on like this?
This same man keeps creating internal crisis in the PDP, but accuses every other person but himself of such. The earlier he takes the counsel to stop playing Almighty god in the affairs of human beings, the better for him and his politics. This is my wise counsel from the creeks!
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