The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says the All
Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has dragged Nigeria 50 years
backward due to its “abysmal” performance.
Wike alleged that the APC had mismanaged the opportunity
Nigerians gave them to make a difference and deserve to be voted out in 2023.
The governor also alleged that Governor Nasir el-Rufai of
Kaduna State was reaping from the evil he plotted against Rivers State in the
past.
He stated this when the Vice President of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Obiageli Ejezie, led other leaders of the association to the Government House, Port Harcourt, to confer on him the 2019/2020 Good Governance Award for his outstanding achievements in project execution in Rivers State.
The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin
Ebiri, told the delegation that in 2015, the APC convinced Nigerians that they
were going to offer better governance than former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He argued that after assuming the top office, the ruling
party had continued the country on the path of retrogression.
“There can’t be good governance without security and this is
based on the rule of law. All of us are living witnesses that in 2015, it was
alleged that the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan could not
perform.
“So, Nigeria needed a change. What has happened to the
change? They have taken Nigeria back by 50 years,” he said.
Wike wondered for how long the APC-led Federal Government
would allow the needless killings and abduction of innocent Nigerians to
continue.
The governor said, “Now, you wake up every morning, students
are being kidnapped in so-and-so state university; people have been killed in
so-and-so state. It has become the norm.
“Just wake up in the morning and the first thing you will
see on the front page of the dailies is ‘10 people have been kidnapped in Niger
State; 20 have been killed in Zamfara State, five have been killed in Imo’ and
this happens virtually every day. So, where are we heading to?”
He accused the Federal Government of instigating security
crises in Rivers, saying the APC governors had visited the Presidency to demand
the withdrawal of a commissioner of police from Rivers.
“Now, in order to cause crises in our state, they brought
the CP they wanted. At the end of the day, God did not allow them to have their
way. But see what is happening in his state now. When you are plotting evil
against somebody, evil will visit you. And that is the problem Governor
el-Rufai is facing today in Kaduna State.’’
“I remember when I came in 2015, when they were honouring
one of their friends as a minister on live television, Channels, el-Rufai had
the temerity to say (my) election could not stand in Rivers State and that they
would kick me out,” Wike said.
Earlier, Ejezie said
the Rotary board of directors had approved Wike as best suited for the 2019/2020
Good Governance Award for his sustainable projects, saying there were “many
laudable and sustainable development projects of your government scattered
across Rivers State.”
Meanwhile, efforts to get the reaction of el-Rufai’s Special
Assistant on Media and Publicity, Muyiwa Adekeye, to Wike’s allegation proved
abortive as multiple calls to his number did not go through, while a text
message sent to his number was still not answered as of press time.
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