The Inanities Of A Political Mole And Merchant As APC Caretaker Committee Member

By Darlington Nwauju*

Our attention has been drawn to a most vexatious and pungent vituperation by a licensed political mole and merchant who unashamedly sold out his political platform during the 2019 general elections whilst acting as Chairman of the Khana LGA chapter of the APC.

Quite unfortunately, we are forced to do a rejoinder on an issue that should pass for the ranting of a hireling. However, we do know for a fact, that democracy all over the world is a celebration of the right to choices. And so, on this year’s Democracy Day, we would not shy away from giving an appropriate response to a needless press briefing by some group of interlopers, who conspired with the greatest traducer of the APC in Rivers State, to balkanize our party and paint it a platform for conscience-less and soul-less power-thirsty individuals.

At the risk of descending into the market arena with the likes of Mr Eric Nwibani, who claims he was handpicked to serve as “Secretary” of an illegitimate committee, his (Nwibani’s) betrayal of the entire membership and stakeholders of our party in that LGA cannot be anything less than legendary. Fresh in our memories is his badly packaged lies that he was attacked and monies meant for party agents and sundry logistics, miraculously disappeared from the trunk of his car. Of course, it left the entire LGA despondent and this effectively dismantled the party’s plans for elections in that LGA and unsurprisingly, we lost!

In 2023, the same Mr Nwibani found himself undeservedly clutching the House of Representatives ticket of the party through the influence of his mentor, Chief Victor Giadom. To cut a long story short, he was assaulted at the local INEC office in Bori, by one of the supporters of Mr Dum Dekor, his main rival, who openly queried his presence at the INEC office after having collected money from Mr Deekor three (3) days before the general elections.

The above scenarios capture our response to those who have willingly offered themselves as agents of destruction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. In any case, we are minded not to stray into issues pending before a competent court of law over the lawless decision taken to yank off democratically elected Executives of our party in Rivers State. It is a well-known fact that elections are won at polling units and Mr Nwibani and his co-travellers should be ashamed that they waited for three election cycles before shifting blame for the party’s electoral losses to the former Transportation Minister. If we choose to do a simple analogy with the scenarios earlier painted, i.e. the diversion of funds meant for elections, thereby frustrating the party’s plans in an entire LGA, and outrightly selling out a mandate freely given by members of our party in a constituency, how much more explanation would a discerning mind need before understanding how and why the party lost at those election cycles? What happened with Mr Nwibani was not in isolation. Such plots and worse were visited on several other constituencies just to stop the APC and the Minister. Now, those who did this havoc seem to be the ones speaking for the party they injured and are now deciding who to put the blame on, as if God and conscience do not exist.

Today, in a bid to continue with the cycle of losses and political trading, characters like Mr Nwibani are now clothed in the garb of the party’s “Messiahs”, parading as members of an interloping and thoughtless arrangement, pretending to be APC but like some folks in Rivers State would say, PDAPC or GDIAPC. And we ask: “Is Nwibani Eric also a true APC member?”, “Has Nwibani reprised the assault he got at the INEC office for trading his ticket?”. Have we forgotten that the then governor now FCT minister frequently boasted to newsmen that he had agents and spies everywhere including in Aso Rock? We can all see those secret agents now that it’s time to eat the fruits of their clandestine labour.

We would not belabour ourselves with pedestrian arguments over the popularity, acceptability, and support base of former Governor Amaechi and his strategic importance in the politics of Rivers State and Nigeria, we only say to political hirelings like Mr Nwibani, wait and see!

We do understand the pains that several of those whose consciences still haunt and hound for betraying our party feel. We urge them to simply make peace with their Creator and move on or continue with their blackmail agenda and end up in self-destruct like the Biblical Judas who could not put his thirty pieces of silver to good use.

Rivers people are tired of reading or listening to the INANITIES OOZING OUT OF LICENSED POLITICAL MOLES AND MERCHANTS!!

*Nwauju is the Rivers State APC Congressionally Elected Spokesperson