Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar
presidential campaign, has accused Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, of playing
the role of God in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Bwala spoke on Friday during an interview with Channels
Television.
Over the past weeks, the PDP has been enmeshed in internal
wrangling as the Wike and his allies are calling for the resignation of
Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman.
The crisis in the party took a new turn on Friday when Wike,
during a media chat, claimed that Ayu received N1 billion from one of the
presidential hopefuls in the party.
Reacting to Wike’s comments, Bwala said the Rivers governor
usually describes those who refuse to agree with him as “betrayers”.
The lawyer, who recently joined the PDP, accused Wike of
frustrating the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket to the south-east
because he wanted to contest the presidency.
“In the past, he mentioned people like the entire governors
of the south-south, when he said his own brothers betrayed him,” he said.
“Before then, he had
also said governors in the south-east betrayed him at some point.
“He had in the past said David Umahi and Ben Ayade who left
the party for APC betrayed him. It appears to me that everybody around him has
betrayed him as long as he does not have his way.
“If I take you back memory lane, you will agree with me that
all the past chairmen, at least three or four, he brought them and there were
times when he had a problem with them, he insisted that they had to go. So, why
is it that everybody is betraying you in life?
“Political party is a party for everyone. Let me tell you
something about life, because he is a Christian. I will probably have the
luxury of quoting the scripture, otherwise, I will consider the sensitivity.
“You know the scripture says God gives power to whosoever he
will. It is good to be rich and to be helpful, but the one thing that God
doesn’t share is when you begin to take His place.
“How do you take the place of God? When nothing moves except
you are in it, except you direct it? I will give you an example. He talks about
equity, fairness and justice that has become the cliche and the hallmark of his
campaign.
“In his state, the chairman of the party and the
governorship candidate are from the same senatorial district. In his state, the
very individual that decided to pick a form to run for senate when he had not
given the approval, what happened to the person? He was held in custody.
“At every material time that the party took decisions, at
least in the last few times that we know, they were decisions that were taken
in the belief that Wike should have his way. That is why I said it is not good
to play God.”
Bwala added that the PDP will survive if Wike leaves the
party.
“From the look of things, it is just Wike. The flagbearer
has never said anything and has said nobody should insult him. Ayu and Atiku
are founding members of the party. Even though they left, they still had to
come back,” he added.
“Let me tell you why
you cannot play God. Atiku left the party, it survived; Ayu left the party, it
survived; if Wike leaves, the party will survive.”
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