One of the youth support groups in the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has sent a strong message to the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara and those it described as “agents of Fubara in the National Assembly”, to stop further malicious attacks on the Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
The PDP National Progressive Youth Initiative, in a statement at the weekend specifically took a swipe at the member representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency of Imo State in the House of Representatives, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, for his constant attacks on the person of Wike.
Ugochinyere, an opposition Lawmaker in the House of Representatives, has been at the forefront of campaigns against the FCT Minister while supporting all of Governor Fubara’s actions in Rivers.
The youths recalled that just two days ago, the lawmakers had accused Wike of plotting to stop Governor Fubara from accessing State Funds via court orders, which he alleged were being instituted by the All Progressives Congress APC and those he termed pro-Wike group.
Ugochinyere was quoted as saying, “The APC and Pro-Wike group, as I am speaking, is filing a suit at the Federal High Court to help them seize the allocation of the entire Rivers State. This is the second of such cases by the Wike group to bring about constitutional disorder.
“They have a pending case seeking to seize the entire Rivers allocation/LGA funds they filed, and now they are using the Wike-APC faction to file another suit seeking an order to stop the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee”, while calling on President Bola Tinubu to rein in his Minister.
But the PDP Youth group, in a statement signed by Comrade Billy Matthew Nwachukwu, President, and David Terna Gondo, the Secretary-General, lambasted Governor Fubara and Rep. Ugochinyere, saying the duo was afraid of due process, accountability and transparency.
“Both entities have become scared of public accountability and blaming their inability to conduct a proper Local Government election that will satisfy elementary law.
“The PDP will no longer tolerate further attacks on the Minister of FCT, His Excellency, Nyesom Wike, who is working day and night for the government and the people of Nigeria to succeed with his infrastructural drive in the FCT.
“The question we would like to ask, is, why are Fubara and Ikenga running from pillar to post, blackmailing the judiciary, the Minister of the FCT and everything by everyone else except Fubara?
“We know the antecedents of some fake activists who have no other source of livelihood but to be blackmailing innocent citizens. These elements have no business address or farm but can boast of having paid over N700m to get a mere committee slot.
“It is high time we called on the good people of Ideato Federal Constituency to beg their busybody and eye service lawmaker to focus on his job. Let him concentrate on why the people voted for him, and peradventure he is bereft of the logic of lawmaking, he should not pretend about it. He should admit his ineptitude and allow someone to take his seat”, the group said.
The PDP youth group threatened to occupy the National Assembly complex if Speaker Tajudeen Abbas didn’t tame Ugochinyere but is allowed to engage in further attacks or unparliamentary conduct against the FCT Minister, whom they described as a great asset to Nigeria and the government of President Tinubu.
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