The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State on Sunday, lampooned Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, following his comments on embattled state Governor Dave Umahi, saying the comments by Wike were not only contemptuous but “an affront to the judicial system in the country.”
Wike had, during a programme in Port Harcourt, on Saturday, called on Umahi to “return the mandate he (Umahi), stole from the Peoples Democratic Party” following an order from the Federal High Court in Abuja sacking him and his deputy for defecting to the APC.
During the programme, Wike had also vowed that the PDP would pursue the case of Umahi’s defection to the APC up to the Supreme Court if the Ebonyi governor failed to handover to the PDP.
But in a statement on Sunday by the Ebonyi State APC Chairman, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, the party described Wike’s “outburst” on Umahi as a “pointer to the fact that the Nigerian judiciary was being manipulated by powerful forces and an affront on the judicial system.”
“The attention of the Ebonyi State chapter of the APC has been drawn to the reckless outburst of the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike,” the statement reads.
“The governor was reacting to the very unjust and widely condemnable Federal High Court ruling, which recently sacked Governor Umahi and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe.
“After listening to Wike’s reckless tirades against Governor Umahi, which is very characteristic of him, the Ebonyi State APC feels obligated to reply to the garrulous, highly pompous but poorly performing Rivers State governor, and to place him where he rightly belongs.
“This is more so given that he has achieved nothing other than violence, turbulence and destruction of people’s hard-earned property ever since he became the governor.
“Nigerians are very much aware that there is no comparison between the widely-rated performing David Umahi and the power-drunk Nyesom Wike in any area, as Governor Umahi clearly surpasses the sleeping governor of Rivers State in all indexes of performance, both in private life and public service.
“It is a measure of the rot in our democracy that a Governor of a state will have no qualms in publicly reprimanding and threatening to deal with a fellow Governor over an issue that is before a court of competent jurisdiction
