APC Chieftain To Wike: Play Down On Public Speaking And Stop Being Rude To Elders

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwumeka Eze has cautioned Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to play down on public speaking as he is overheating the polity.

This was as Eze described as rude and un-African of Wike calling the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar a liar and also tagging Mr. Sule Lamido and Babangida Aliyu, former governors of Jigawa and Niger States respectively as attack dogs of the former Vice President.

Eze in a statement on Wednesday, expressed displeasure over what he described as the bizarrely primitive and aggressively self-assertive characteristic of Governor Wike, who he noted has notoriety in the use of very harsh condemnatory and fowl languages against perceive political foes and more recently, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and other notable Nigerians who have made serious sacrifices for the domestication of democracy.

Eze specifically said that such behavioural attitude nauseate every right thinking member of society, stressing that the ambition of Governor Wike cannot be bigger than the PDP.

While appealing to Atiku to reconcile with Wike without succumbing to his evil schemes, Eze however said that Wike’s truculent criticisms and barrage of uncultured invectives since the announcement of the result of the PDP presidential primaries exposes him as a troubled man with a streak of sadism in him.

In the words of Eze; “Not minding my present political affiliation with APC, as a patriotic Nigerian, I cannot stand aloof and watch helplessly as one of the political institutions in Nigeria is decimated and desecrated by Governor Nyesom Wike who was a mere student activist when Atiku Abubakar was playing actively to champion the enthronement of genuine democracy in Nigeria.

“At times in public utterances, people should be careful and do the best they can to study and understand some of the characters against whom they discuss and stop running down leaders who they know very well they cannot be better than,” he said.

Acknowledging whatever Wike may have claimed to contribute with public funds in sustaining the PDP, Eze said it is impious for the Governor to allow his dusky garrulousness to take a better part of him, making him to behave like a deposed emperor especially towards a nationalistic political organization like the PDP which he knows very little or nothing about how it was formed.

Eze further said; “The Governor cannot scheme the same primitive style of politics he uses in Rivers State where public institutions and very significant individuals including Traditional, Religious and Political Leaders are treated like a conquered species and conditioned to a pattern of behavior peculiar only to the times of slave trade.

“Such exhibition of lordly disdain and inhuman uppity coupled with an embarrassing entitlement mentality must have to be dismantled and not tolerated at this critical moment of our national life.

Particularly unsettled by the adjectival phrases deployed by the Governor to describe Atiku Abubakar over his comment on what informed his choice of a running-mate, Eze said for Wike to describe the former Vice President whose inputs towards sustaining the growth of Nigeria’s nascent democracy, especially for fighting the Third Term Agenda of erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo, as a liar for stating the obvious, he will live to regret the consequences of his unguarded diatribes.

He further said; “Atiku Abubakar is not his age mate or political mate notwithstanding the fact that the situation of things has made him to continue to relate with dubious characters like the Rivers Governor whose style of politics and self-centered leadership model is abhorrent and grossly antithetical to the new Nigeria envisaged in 2023.”