As long as he uses it as a precondition for supporting the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is unlikely to relent in his efforts to have Iyorcha Ayu, the party’s national chairman, removed from office.
He recently made a comparison between the PDP problem and the biblical tale of Jonah, whose presence in a ship produced turbulence on the water. Only when he was tossed off the ship did the sea quiet down.
Although he avoided naming anyone, he utilised the biblical allusion to restate his call for Ayu’s dismissal because he has been accused of corruption and poor party management.
At Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor of Abia Statebirthday ,’s celebration, Wike gave a speech.
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Wike further claimed that although Abia was entitled to a grant from the Central Bank of Nigeria, certain unnamed individuals, perhaps in Atiku’s party, prevented the state from receiving it.
He claimed Ikpeazu had to pay it as a reward for voting for him in the PDP presidential primaries.
“When we went to London. He (Ikpeazu) told the person who called us to a meeting. This thing happening in PDP is like a bad ship carrying Jonah. When the ship was sinking, they went to Jonah. Jonah said, it’s not about me, it’s the ship. They took Jonah out of the ship, Jonah did not die, the ship stabilized. So why not throw this Jonah out, so that the ship can stabilize, and still that person will survive. That is the issue in PDP.”
“I will tell Nigerians why some people think we are not Nigerians. Why some people think we are slaves. I cannot be a slave to anybody. You people will see; it will clear your eyes. You will know what we’re telling you.
“Anybody that fight Abia State, you are not fighting Okezie, you’re fighting the people of Abia.
“I will tell you how money that was supposed to come to Abia State for our friend to develop Abia State was stopped recently by those who think they own this country.
“Because Ikpeazu supported me, they went and stopped Abia State from the money it was supposed to get to develop Ariara market.
“That day you will cry when I tell all of you. Abia and Benue State. They denied them their money, that every state had gotten from the Central Bank. I told them Ikpeazu is a quiet man; a born-again Christian. I am not a born again Christian. I told Ikpeazu, when they slap you, turn the other chick. Me, if you slap me, I’ll blow your head off.
“You can see how people are wicked. People that are not in the office yet, they are stopping state money. Even as we have criticized Buhari, Buhari has never stopped our money any day”, he said.
