APC Chieftain Describes Gale Of Resignation In Fubara’s Cabinet As Necessary Purgation, Counsels Abe To Leave Amaechi Alone

Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, says former Rivers South-East Senator, Magnus Abe, offered a grossly distorted asseveration to the very plain and unequivocal letters of the Constitution on the status of the 27 pro-Wike former Lawmakers whose defection sealed their voluntary exit from the Rivers State House of Assembly to which they were elected.

According to a recent publication credited to Vanguard, Sen. Abe was quoted as saying that while serving as Senator, he and eleven others defected from the political platform on whose sponsorship they were elected to the Red Chambers to another political organisation with no repercussions.

In a statement made available to the media, Chief Eze said Abe sounded illiterate and untrained about how little the circumstances that led to the defection of the former state legislators bore to the heavy political crisis that necessitated their exit from the PDP in 2014, which he cited as an example.

The APC Chief stated that before the 2015 elections, there was a multi-layered crisis within the ranks of the PDP, which was central to public discourse on a global scale, resulting in the formation of the New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), where he served as Spokesman, and which later merged with the All Progressives Congress to seize power from the PDP.

“During the time Abe and others defected, the PDP was in crisis, and as a result, during the party’s National Congress at Eagle Square, six governors, including former Vice President and critical stakeholders of the PDP, Senator Saraki and others, left the Congress to form a parallel Congress, giving birth to the New Peoples Democratic Party, in which some of us were elected national officers. That parallel convention elected Abubakar Baraje as National Chairman, His Excellency Olagunsoye Oyinlola as National Secretary, and Chief Sam Sam Jaja as National Vice Chairman of the party. The split in the PDP was so severe that the then-National Chairman, Bamanga Turkur, gasped for air.”

Eze said it smacks of deliberate absurdity for Sen. Abe, a beneficiary of the 2014 political masterstroke that forced the PDP out of office, to stoop so low to the point of trading his sense of judgment for a federal appointment he has yet to see by attempting to repair a situation that is beyond repair.

He stated that the situation of the former Rivers lawmakers is distinct from the instance cited by Abe in an attempt to earn a place in the good books of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, emphasising that the former SDP gubernatorial candidate, as always, is merely feigning ignorance, and his dishonest pitching has only succeeded in casting doubt on his status as a lawyer, especially in light of the plain wordings of Section 109(1)g of the Nigerian Constitution.

Eze maintained that, according to the letters of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s constitution, former Speaker Amaewhule and his misguided former lawmakers have lost their seats, and no amount of propaganda by Abe or his group will revalidate their invalid status.

On the wave of resignations that rocked Gov. Siminialayi Fubara’s cabinet a few days ago, Eze said the moles’ departure was long overdue and it was better for them that they left voluntarily rather than being forced to. He went on to say that their departure was a necessary purging to expedite the injection of new blood into the system and prepare the government for the serious task ahead.

While warning Sen. Abe to exclude Amaechi from his renewed contract due to a smear campaign, Eze again urged Chief Nyesom Wike to consider recommending the former Rivers Southeast Senator to President Tinubu for an appointment to redeem him from political relegation, which he has endured for years.