A former spokesman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has told Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State not to allow the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State, Tony Okocha come any closer to his government.
Eze, a chieftain of the APC in the State, warned that Okocha, who is an ally to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, could be out to contaminate and sabotage Fubara’s government.
It is no longer news that Fubara and his political godfather, Nyesom Wike no longer see eye to eye.
Okacha has on many occasions shown that his loyalty was with the FCT Minister.
Eze, therefore Implored both elders, stakeholders and all those that love the State to rally around Governor Fubara and save the state from internal and external enemies.
The APC chieftain said that Fubara must be wary of Okocha, who he described as a political jobber and Wike’s hireling.
Recall that Okocha had, during a meeting with some members of his faction of the APC, asked Fubara to re-present the 2024 budget of the state to the lawmakers who dumped the PDP for APC some months back.
He made the call despite the budget being presented to a five-member House and signed into law by the Governor during the heat of the crisis that rocked the state.
Okocha had said, “We frown at the governor’s impunity in running Rivers State without a Budget. However, we remind him that it will amount to gross financial misconduct for him to continue in this dangerous voyage.
“This might sound unpalatable and annoying. As a party in opposition in the state, we have applied and received data on the sum received by the Rivers State government from Federal Allocation…”
Eze said the former aide to Amaechi “is on the frolics of his own – having no mandate to speak for APC in Rivers. And as a harbinger of Wike’s selfish political misadventure, he only exhibited a tip of another premeditated crafty scheme devised against the Rivers Governor, which must be detonated with dispatch.”
Eze, in a statement made available to journalists, added, “the unsavory comment credited to Mr. Okocha compels one to ask where he was in the 8 years of Wike’s administration where the state annual budgets were shrouded in secrecy to the delight of same lawmakers, unwitting victims of Wike’s political misadventure who have suddenly retreated from slumber to put up a fight after they’ve lost their seats.”
He condemned in strong terms the actions of Wike, saying that the former Governor is fighting the state through the instrumentality of “some ex-lawmakers still laying claim to their former seats to foment trouble in a bid to sabotage the smooth administration of the state and incite the people against the government of the day.”
Eze noted that despite the glee of distractions from Wike, Fubara had offset the accumulated Pension arrears of pensioners who were overlooked all through the years Wike held sway as Governor.
Rivers: Be wary of Okocha – Amaechi’s ally, Eze tells Gov Fubara
