A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Eze
Chukwuemeka Eze, has lampooned the planned Infrastructure Award Investiture on
the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike by the Federal Government.
Eze went further to accuse the Governor of exchanging
millions of taxpayers’ money for a mere award, adding that the award is
misplaced, unwise and unmerited.
He urged Buhari to investigate how the Rivers Governor was
nominated for such honour.
Eze, erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct
New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), expressed displeasure over plans by the
Federal Government to bestow an infrastructure award on Governor of Wike.
In a statement in Port Harcourt, he said he read with
misgiving the report titled, “Buhari to confer infrastructure award on Wike
Oct. 21” by one of the leading national newspapers in Nigeria, stating that,
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has been nominated for the “Distinguished
Award in Infrastructure Delivery” at the forthcoming Nigeria Excellence in
Public Service Award by the Federal Government.
The report went further to quote the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, as stating that Buhari will on
October 21 present the award to the governor at the State House Conference
Centre, Abuja.
The party Chief said as a close watcher of Rivers State
politics, member of the APC Legacy Projects Media Team and one of the key
players and contributors to the formation of APC by virtue of his position as
spokesperson for the defunct nPDP, which formed an integral part of the merger
that gave birth to the APC, he feels embarrassed and emotionally tormented and
troubled to learn that a government that almost caused him his life has
concluded plans to honour a bigot whose only achievement in eight years is the
erection of 12 over-bloated flyovers in Obio/Akpor, his home LGA and nothing
more.
“The cost of each of those flyovers, some of which are still
at their elementary stages of construction, can build four to five flyovers in
any part of the country,” he claimed.
Eze called on President Buhari to rescind the proposed
award, stressing that Governor Nyesom Wike, who, according to him, has been
hiding under the veil of a perpetual court injunction to evade investigation
into the odoriferous corruption perpetrated under his administration, does not
in any way merit such recognition.
“As a government that is peculiar in fighting corruption, it
will be unwise to have anything to do with a Governor that has myriad of
corruption allegations on his neck, to the extent of honoring him with an award
investiture after he had bribed FG officials with millions of Rivers money just
to get what he does not merit.
“As of today, the governorship candidate he foisted on the
PDP, Mr. S. Fubara, still holds sway as an employee of the state government
(civil servant) and this is against the rule of neutrality in the civil
service.
“He neglected the Supreme Court judgment which derecognized
Celestine Omehia as a former Governor, concocted a law, recognized him just to
undo his predecessor, and all of a sudden, he has unmade the law to derecognize
Omehia because the later has found for himself a political direction up north.
“Everything he does is against the law yet he belongs to the
Body of Benchers. This calls for a question.
“It is the resources of the State that are stressed here and
this should be a source of concern to the federal government.
“If Wike should be honoured because he built 12 flyovers
within one major road in a Local Government Area, Obio-Akpor, then what award
will the FG give to Governor Umahi of Ebonyi State who has built 16 flyovers
scattered in almost half of the Local Government Areas in Ebonyi State?
“What Award are we to give to the Governor of Borno State,
who, not minding the insecurity ravaging his State, is changing the face of
Borno State. What about the Governors of Delta, a silent multi-sectoral
achiever? What of the CRS State Governor who sees tomorrow, what award are we
to give the Lagos State Governor whose inputs have surpassed all the inputs of
the last administrators of Lagos State,” he queried.
Eze said the proposed award has an obvious political
undertone that has already been uncovered.
“Maybe the award is to compensate the Rivers Governor for
destroying the educational facilities and industries built by the
administration of Amaechi and making Rivers State one of the capitals of
poverty.
“Maybe the recognition is for depriving pensioners their
due, after making sacrifices and putting-in decades of service to society, and
subjecting them to abject poverty. Or maybe it is to applaud him for not
building one industry to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in
Rivers State and weaponizing poverty,” he added.
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