A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has accused President Bola Tinubu of fueling the crisis in Rivers state.
According to him, Tinubu wants to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara and replace him with Amaewhule.
In a statement he made available to reporters in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct new Peoples Democratic, PDP, also noted that by supporting the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, President Bola Tinubu has lost the support of Niger Deltans.
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Eze alleged that the protracted political crisis in Rivers state has continued unabated because the FCT Minister is being supported by Tinubu.
“Wike with the support of the Presidency is championing the plot to impeach Governor Fubara, in order to install Amaewhule, as governor.
“Obviously, Wike is capitalizing on his unholy political marriage to Tinubu to destabilize Rivers State and distract Governor Fubara, solely to ensure that their stooge, Amaewhule becomes governor to enable them rig the 2027 general elections in Rivers State,” Eze alleged in his statement.
“Sadly, for Tinubu and Wike, these evil and undemocratic plots to remove Fubara from office will not only fall like a pack of cards but will rather strengthen and energize Fubara in his concerted efforts to rescue the state from the shackles of vandals parading themselves as lawmakers.
“I have counselled President Tinubu from the beginning that his romance with Wike will not only destroy APC as a political party but will stain his political career as a democrat,” Eze said.
He explained that the plot to impeach or remove Fubara from the Brick House will not see the light of the day in view of the fact that Tinubu and those supporting Wike may not know much about Rivers State politics, which he said is divided amongst two blocks – the upland and riverine axis.
“It may interest the public to note that the upland axis of the state has through Dr. Peter Odili, Rt. Hon. Barr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and Chief Nyesom Wike governed Rivers State for 24 years, while the riverine axis through Sir Fubara is just governing the state,” he added.
The APC stalwart maintained that disrupting and bringing the administration of Fubara to an abrupt end amounts to subjugation of the Ijaw nation and other riverine ethnic nationalities.
“It is height of political insensitivity to humiliate an Ijaw governor out of office because of one man’s sheer greed and dictatorial tendencies,” he said.
Eze warned that the present plot to impeach the first riverine governor and replacing him with another upland person is simply asking for calamity for the state.
The APC chieftain admonished Amaewhule and his colleagues to wake up from their fantasy, and stop making mockery of the serious agenda of lawmaking.
“Amaewhule and his bandwagon of defectors lack what it takes to order a sitting governor around. They have called Fubara unprintable names and abused him publicly, not knowing that they are denigrating and desecrating the office of governor of Rivers State,” Eze added.
“If Wike is still the governor of Rivers State, can anybody try what he is doing to Fubara? Can he stomach this political crisis? If not that Fubara is a peace loving man, amiable, wise, humane, respectful and easy going man, Wike and the Presidency would have seen what fire does to the ears of a rat,” Eze said.
Recall that Fubara had reached out to the Amaewhule-led lawmakers for a truce which they rebuffed.
Reacting on the attitude of the lawmakers, Eze said they should stop playing God and acting as if Rivers State can not move forward with out them.
“It is ominous and inauspicious behaviour; an affront on the highly revered office of the governor of Rivers State, for the lawmakers to shun a peaceful invitation by Governor Fubara for a meeting,” he said.
Fubara had extended a formal invitation to Amaewhule and the others to discuss and iron out ways to resolve the political imbroglio.
Eze described the invitation for a meeting as a “political masterstroke strategy” stressing that by refusing to honour the invitation, the world now knows that the lawmakers are very determined to undermine the peace of Rivers State.
