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Port Harcourt, Nigeria – The Bureau Information | Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has come down laborious on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over latest feedback made throughout an interview on Channels Tv’s Politics In the present day.
Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, had claimed that he got here from a rich background and was privileged sufficient to attend college in his private automotive—in contrast to his former boss and political mentor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Wike additionally alleged that Amaechi’s spouse, Dame Judith Amaechi, obtained ₦4 million month-to-month from the Niger Delta Growth Fee (NDDC) to coach girls, additional vowing to resign if the continuing forensic audit of the Fee didn’t indict her.
Eze Fires Again: “Wike Is Residing in Denial”
Reacting to Wike’s remarks, Chief Eze, a well known ally of Amaechi, described the FCT Minister’s claims as “self-ridiculing falsehood” and accused him of denying his humble roots and the individuals who helped him rise to prominence.
“Wike was nothing greater than an errand boy to Amaechi, who made him politically related,” Eze mentioned in a strongly worded assertion launched to the press over the weekend.
“It’s laughable to listen to him speak about wealth, figuring out full properly that poverty was as widespread in his household because the morning solar. His father, if he have been alive, can be disenchanted at such self-denial. Nigerians have to be reminded that it was not Wike who made himself Native Authorities Chairman or Chief of Workers. These have been favours granted by Amaechi, who additionally nominated him as Minister beneath the Jonathan administration.”
On the NDDC Allegation In opposition to Dame Judith Amaechi
Eze defended Amaechi’s spouse, stating that she had official dealings with the NDDC, whereas difficult Wike to publicly disclose the position and monitor file of his personal spouse, who’s a serving decide.
“In dragging Dame Judith Amaechi’s identify right into a baseless allegation, Wike has crossed a line. Is his personal spouse match to stay on the bench, contemplating she shares a house with somebody like Wike whose each motion reeks of vendetta and recklessness?”
He questioned the moral implications of being a decide whereas married to a controversial politician recognized for combative outbursts, including that “the sanctity of justice should not be undermined by affiliation.”
“Amaechi’s Greatest Mistake Was Trusting Wike” – Eze
Chief Eze went additional in charge Amaechi for Wike’s political ascendancy, calling it the best miscalculation of the previous Governor’s political profession.
“Every part Amaechi constructed for Rivers State—schooling, agriculture, scholarships, well being reforms—was systematically dismantled by Wike when he grew to become governor. Wike inherited a framework that might have made Rivers State self-reliant, however he selected as a substitute to manipulate by destruction and intimidation.”
Eze referred to as on Nigerians to ignore Wike’s makes an attempt to rewrite historical past, accusing him of utilizing propaganda and populism to masks failures in governance and an absence of imaginative and prescient for improvement.
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