Wike Plots To Join APC

APC To Wike: Remain In PDP, We Don’t
Need You
By ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, Port Harcourt
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
alleged moves by Rivers State Governor-
elect, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, to
dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and join its fold, advising the governor-elect
to remain in his political party.
The APC, in a statement issued in Port
Harcourt on Thursday, and signed by its
State Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone,
condemned the planned move, saying
Wike’s aim is to obtain the cover of it and
avoid dethronement by the nation’s
judiciary.
Finebone said, “Wike’s latest move comes
as no surprise to those who know his
antecedents. Having back stabbed his
mentors like former Senator John Mbata in
the past and more recently Governor Rotimi
Amaechi, he would only be living true to
the unreliable ally that he has grown to be.
“Wike’s history is replete with sabotage and
dual personality often unstable among
peers. So, we are not surprised at his latest
moves to dump PDP to join APC. Such a
move portrays him as unstable in
relationship having at several instances,
bitten the finger that fed him.
“He thinks that by hiding under the canopy
of APC membership, elders of the APC will
prevail on Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, the
governorship candidate of the party at the
April 11 election, to abandon his quest for
justice.”
Giving insight into the plan, the APC Scribe
explained that Wike, as soon as he is
received into the APC fold, will woo APC
elders and leaders to prevail on Peterside to
drop his quest for justice before the Election
Petition Tribunal.
He said, “Through this, Wike would have
hoodwinked APC elders and leaders into
prevailing on Dr. Peterside to withdraw his
petition from the Tribunal. In short, Wike
seeks to hide under the cloak of party man
to dodge standing before justice to explain
how he garnered the fictitious figures he
claimed to have secured at the April
governorship poll.
“Aware that Peterside is a true and loyal
party man, unlike what he is; Wike will
propound the hypothesis of “this-is-a-party
matter” to cajole both Peterside and the
leadership. Unfortunately, Wike has already
shot himself in the foot with the barbaric
manner in which he obtained the fraudulent
victory he is currently parading.
“In any case, the APC has placed restrictions
on fleeing PDP members whose only
reason for jumping ship is because the PDP
has lost the elections. Mr. Nyesom Wike is a
liability rather than asset. It would be best
he remains in the PDP, stand before Justice
at the Tribunal and explain his role in the
rape on democracy in Rivers State last April
11. His late night moves to join APC is only a
ploy to protect the stolen mandate in his
pockets.”
However, when contacted, the chairman,
media and publicity committee of the PDP
campaign organisation, Barrister Emma
Okah, sait it was untrue that Wike is
planning to dump the party for the APC.
Okah said, “I cannot glorify APC with a
response on a thing like that. It is absolutely
untrue, totally childish and a deceased
imagination.”