Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday hit hard at All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the party members should be embarrassed about the performance, especially in the area of insecurity
Wike, who revealed that no one would be pleased to be called an APC member, additionally chastised the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), adding that instability had declined and the economy has fallen under the watch of the ruling party.
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An assertion by Wike’s Special Assistant, Media, Kelvin Ebiri, qouted the governor as saying these when he led his Oyo State partner, Seyi Makinde, to open the Woji and Obagi streets in GRA Phase 2, Obio Akpor Local Government Area.
Wike said it was unexpected for the APC governor to continue conceding deteriorating frailty without tolerating the disappointment of their party, adding that the Federal Government under APC vowed to offer better administration yet has flopped woefully on all records.
The governor said: “I hear the Progressives Governors Forum saying that there is insecurity. Who is responsible? They should come out openly and say that the party in power has failed.
“Nigerians gave a mandate to APC at the Federal Government level and therefore, they must own up that they have failed Nigerians.
“Everything has collapsed in the country. Security has collapsed. The economy has collapsed. Nothing is working in the country. Today, all over Nigeria, there is insecurity everywhere.
“The other day, in Katsina State, they took about 400. The next day, they said they took 84. Now again they said they’ve taken a village head, the wife and 14 people in Katsina State.
“When there was a problem in this state, about the level of kidnapping, I shouted but nobody listened to us. They said it was politics and that we were killing APC people.
“I said when you introduce politics to security the consequences will be great.
“Now, it is everywhere. Until they come to apologise to Rivers State for what they have done to us, then God will not forgive all of them.”
He said: “Indeed, all right-minded people like to identify with progress irrespective of their personal feeling towards the initiator.
“Development is a big part of our democracy and every project counts towards the overall progress of the nation.
“We are blessed to be leaders at this point of Nigeria’s history where there seems to be a reawakening of political consciousness, especially among the young people.
“True, we have a unique privilege of grooming a new crop of people who will see governance as service.
“We have remained too long in where people see public coffers as an extension of their accounts.
“At the next circle of election in 2023, Nigerians will show that they have learnt something from the event of 2020 and that electoral decisions have consequences.”
