Rivers APC condemns ex-ministers’ visit to Wike

… Describes it as shameful, bad omen

The Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed shock over the recent solidarity visit to Governor Nyesom Wike by former ministers who served in the administration of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The party in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Chief (Dr.) Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, described the solidarity visit as shameful and a bad omen for the country’s nascent democracy.

The statement read in part: “We are shocked that Sule Lamido, erstwhile Jigawa State Governor and member of the defunct New PDP (nPDP) that exposed the evils of the Jonathan administration and thus contributed to its deserved fall, could lead such a solidarity visit to Chief Wike.”

The Rivers APC alleged that the solidarity visit was not necessarily informed by the ex-ministers’ love for Wike “but the love for Rivers State money which Wike has continued to spend as he wishes, forgetting that one day he will be asked to account for all the public funds being wasted on a party that brought Nigeria to its present sorrowful State.”

Continuing, the statement said: “We must sincerely sympathise with the ex-ministers, especially Lamido, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was among visiting Northern Governors that were stoned and shot by members of Grassroot Democratic Imitative (GDI) the armed pressure group of Nyesom Wike, then Minister of State for Education, after which he described them as Fulani herdsmen.
The party advised Lamido and his co-travellers to stop wasting their time and warned that “no amount of solidarity visit to a drowning man whose cup is full will save him and those supporting him from accounting for all the atrocities under their watch in Rivers State.”

The APC urged Wike to prepare and face the police investigation to explain to Nigerians why and how the rerun election was marred with violence allegedly orchestrated by his agents “now with his failure to stop the Police investigation of the December 10th rerun election through the Judiciary.”