Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct nPDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has admitted that it is within the exclusive preserve of President Bola Tinubu to appoint any Nigerian into his cabinet.
He, however, emphasized that there should be reservations in the case of former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.
He described the former Governor as a self-centred politician, whose usurping leadership in the pursuit of selfish, private vendettas portends grave danger to any organization of humans.
He averred that the All Progressives Congress, APC, prides itself as a party rooted in democracy and rule of law and going by that standard, the entrance of Wike into its fold would ordinarily not be easy because the party abhors his type of politics which is clearly antithetical to progress.
Eze said that Wike’s desperate engagements ridiculed the Nigerian system.
“He earned the country a global embarrassment. In saner climes, his likes are subjected to the slammer for their very many crimes.
“If he nurses any interest in joining the APC, just be sure that such interest is not pure; it is definitely for a clandestine purpose as his custom is,” Wike said.
On President Tinubu appointing Wike as a Minister, Eze stated that it would be the greatest political mistake ever envisaged by the President in his political life.
“Nigerians have set a target for the President and they know that Wike does not fit into the caliber of people needed to help him meet the expectations and yearnings of country people as he lacks the minimum record and character prescribed for people who should hold public offices in the present day contemporary Nigeria,” Eze said.
“Check his antecedents, all through his eight-year-reign in Rivers State, the ‘Treasure Base of the Nation’ could not attract any foreign inflow, not one. The State recorded zero investment all through that period.
He undermined all the basic areas that required attention to grow the state and only channeled energy to building 12 overhead bridges with the biggest media fanfare in the annals of history just to gain cheap popularity.
“What do you think of a man that bragged so much about overhead bridges as legacy projects in this era of technology? Aside those overhead bridges, he cannot point at anything as his achievement in office as Governor.
“The Mother and Child Hospital he built has been under lock and key many years after it was commissioned. That facility has not been able to diagnose a child of any ailment; what about the Peter Odili Cancer and Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Treatment Center?
