Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, one of the strategic oil and gas states of Nigeria in the Niger Delta area, has taken on the All Progressives Congress (APC), the political party of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been dominating the affairs of the country since May 29, 2015.
Wike who is of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party that was in the saddle in the country from 1999-2015, said APC was a curse to the political sovereignty of Nigeria.
According to him, ”when the present administration at the centre came on board, they preached change. They told Nigerians that they are going to change the country, they talked about corruption, and they talked about hunger in the land.
”But two years down the line, it appears that the hunger is even multiplying. It appears also that the corruption they talked about has even doubled.”
Apparently disturbed, he called on Christian clerics in Nigeria to work for the enthronement of the rule of law by the federal government.
Wike said the relegation of the rule of law by the administration of President Buhari had led to the rise of ”atrocities by agencies of the federal government against the opposition states.”
The governor spoke through his Chief of Staff Chukwuemeka Woke, an engineer, during the 4th anniversary celebration of Fire Brand Apostolic Ministry Worldwide at Ibadan, the Oyo State capital in Western Nigeria.
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He used the occasion to reiterate his agitation for the Buhari administration to be total in the anti-corruption fight as they promised Nigerians during the APC presidential election campaigns.
The governor of the big oil state, however, accused President Buhari of being ”selective” in his fight against corruption.
He also alleged that government was targeting members of the opposition for selfish purposes, stressing that such acts fuelled corruption among key public functionaries of the APC.
Continuing, he said, ”the unfortunate thing is that the anti-corruption fight is sectional. When the opposition is involved in corruption, they will be humiliated, tried, published on the pages of newspapers and prosecuted, even though they have not been able to get one single conviction.
“But when members of the ruling party are involved in corruption, it is covered.”
He insisted that Christians must rise and pray for Nigeria.
Adding, he said the country must be delivered from the curse which the APC has foisted on her.
Earlier, General Overseer of the Fire Brand Apostolic Ministy, Pastor Olufemi Odeyale, said the development projects and programmes of the Rivers State Government were quite commendable.
According to the cleric, that explained why the Wike administration had been winning international awards.
He urged the PDP governor not to turn away from God.
