Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain
of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and a former Spokesperson of
the defunct New Peoples Democrstic Party, nPDP, has accused the State Governor,
Chief Nyesom Wike, of setting aside a whopping sum of N100 billion for a media
campaign against the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi.
In a statement on
Thursday, Eze also alleged that Governor Wike was recruiting a former Minister
of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan,
spokesperson for the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, Imo Ikenga,
among others, to lead the media campaign.
Eze said impeccable sources, who
are well informed of the plot, said the governor had already assembled the team
of sworn anti-Amaechi in the PDP and other opposition elements, including Chief
Dan Nwanyanwu, the National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party ZLP, to be
supported by Barr Emma Okah, the Rivers state Commissioner for Information,
with Senator Magnus Abe as coordinator of the project.
Eze added that the primary target
of the sponsors of the project, represented by the Rivers state governor, is to
smear the image of the minister.
According to Eze, insiders in the
Wike administration in Port Harcourt had been boasting of late that the
onslaught against Amaechi this time around would be targeted at damaging his
public image, using the media at all levels as well as on multiple platforms.
The end result, he claimed, is to
make the minister not attractive for a reappointment in President Buhari’s next
cabinet, adding that a mobilisation of N20 billion had already been disbursed
to the assembled team.
Eze added, “A whopping sum of
N100billion has been set aside for this task aimed at defaming, smearing,
disparaging, blackmailing and frustrating Amaechi’s re-nomination into
President Buhari’s new cabinet.
“Available facts indicate that
the sum of N20Billion has already be released to the committee comprising of
some states and national commentators, while further disbursement will be done
as the committee progresses in its deadly task.
“Some of the key Committee
members so far recruited are Chief Dan Nwanyanwu the National Chairman of
Zenith Labour Party, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode former Aviation Minister, Barr Reno
Omokri, a former presidential spokesman to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Barr
Imo Ikenga the CUPP Spokesperson to be supported by Barr Emma Okah the Rivers
State Commissioner for Information who is to as the Committee’s
Secretary/Resource Person and source provider of most of the dirty documents
with Senator Magnus Abe coordinating the multi Billion Naira venture.
“According to the charge to the
committee, the committee should use every media platform to make the 2015 plot
against Amaechi a child’s play, especially as Wike plans on using some of
Amaechi’s former cabinet members to tell false, concocted and distorted stories
to the media and impugn the minister’s unblemished integrity and paint a very
terrible image of him to members of the public.
“The committee is charged to
recruit other Nigerians and foreigners alike to jointly and collaboratively
carry out this hatchet job of ‘hack Amaechi down’ campaign. The plan is to
throw as much dirt at him as possible and rubbish his image that the 2015
campaign against him will become a child’s play.
“Most of the committee members
are currently in Rivers state and are being coached on what to say to the press
and how to say it, to do maximum damage while others are busy distorting,
concocting and fabricating fake screenshots, text messages, documents and all
sorts in Senator Abe’s Freedom House campaign office in Port Harcourt; that
they intend to release to the media to tarnish the image of the minister. Pages
of some key National Dailies are already booked in advance and most Network
Televisions and their anchormen contacted for this deadly task.
“Today, even not waiting to be
formally commissioned, across media platforms subtle campaigns were already
ongoing to sway public perception against the former Rivers State Governor.
Recently both Amadi Dike, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo and Sunny Oburu PDP apologists in their various recent
reports have castigated Amaechi with unkind words pleading with President
Buhari not to reappoint Amaechi into his cabinet.
“In carrying out this deadly act
against an innocent man, whose only crime was that he supervised the election
and reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari both in 2015 and 2019, Senator Abe
is busy on daily basis jumping from one TV station to the other, discussing
Amaechi while Chief Dan Nwanyanwu is trying to outshine other committee members
and Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is busy writing worthless and inciting letters and
articles aimed at achieving the aim of the Amaechi-must-be-destroyed
committee.”
However, Eze noted that the plot
and its execution had failed right from the moment it was conceived because
most Nigerians have come to understand that Amaechi, being one of the most
critical factors to the ouster of the PDP from its merciless milking of the
nation’s resources, will continue to be a target of attack from the reactionary
elements that represent the former ruling.
Eze pointedly stated that no
matter the efforts of both Wike and Abe that their very best, can never equal,
not to talk about surpassing Amaechi’s sterling, innovative, radical, trend-setting
and absolutely revolutionary records as a world acknowledged leader of our
time. Take it or leave it, Amaechi remains a hero of global reckoning.
All these plots notwithstanding,
the fact remains that Amaechi have proven himself as a unique leader in Nigeria
and no amount of evil machinations will deter his reappointment if merit is the
yardstick for appointment.
He added, “He is a shining star
who has brought his wealth of experience to bear in transforming the rail
transport sector and the President is happy with him. The fact remains Amaechi)
has made us from the South-South proud, very proud, by his exceptional
performance.”
Eze said that he is “consoled by
the fact that Buhari doesn’t listen to those nasty smears and blackmail.
“Wike and Abe are not God Let
them gather together and plot evil against Amaechi with trillions of Naira,
they shall continue to fall as they have always been. The Bible says the
Egyptians you see here today, in a moment you will find them no more. The
battle is the Lord’s and he needs no assistance from anybody. They failed in
2015 and surely they will fail in 2019.”
Eze, however, added that “those
who are true adherents of the politics of Rt. Hon. Amaechi would not be
distracted by any campaign of calumny against the man,” adding “we are sure
that President Buhari will also not be distracted by these misguided persons,
whose hatred for his person is being transferred on Amaechi.”
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