Presidency 2023: Magnus Abe cautioned against attack on Amaechi, in alliance with Tinubu

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has called out Magnus Ngei Abe, former Senator representing Rivers South-East district in the National Assembly, against continuous attack on the Transportation Minister, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, in Rivers State.

Eze noted that Senator Abe, engaging in political merchandising and sabotage, pitched his tent with former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State following Tinubu’s declaration for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Abe was cited to have at an event in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, 11 January, 2022, criticized the Transportation Minister and former Rivers Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, for being close to the Presidency, hence, claiming he does not love stealing money. Abe was said to have stated that the seat of the President is strictly for those that love money, that “Nigerians don’t want anybody who does not like money to come near the Presidency”.

Eze in a statement in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, berated Senator Magnus Abe, accusing him of having ‘serious character defect’ who speaks from both sides of his mouth and cannot be trusted. He added that Abe has severally jumped ship from Amaechi to Governor Nyesom Wike, later Sylva, then, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and presently Tinubu.

Eze had declared: “I have resolved never to discuss Senator Abe, haven seen how lowly placed and irrelevant he has become particularly, after exposing himself as one that cannot be trusted after jumping from Amaechi to Wike. Abe later left Wike and embraced Osinbajo and now he has sneaked away from the Vice President for Bola Tinubu. Sen. Abe is far from a man to be taken seriously and these times are too serious for his kind of politics. He is as unstable as water”.

Eze admitting that everyone has the right to association and to free speech as allowed by law, he acknowledged that Abe is at liberty to support whoever he wishes, but where his right to association is expanded beyond its elastic limit to the extent that it becomes toxic, the guardian of public manners is always at a ready to intervene.

Eze told Abe to be preoccupied with thoughts on how to save his neck and the little remaining of his public image from the alleged N4 billion road contract fraud perpetrated against his own community, which he said was exposed publicly by Governor Nyesom Wike, during a visit to Beera, Abe’s home town.

He further admonished Abe to desist from confrontation with Amaechi or dabbling into APC issues since he is no longer a registered member of the party. Eze reiterated that Abe should clear his name from the allegation against him by Governor Wike in a video that has gone viral that he embezzled N4 billion awarded to him to construct a road within his community. According to Eze, “It is sad that instead of addressing the issue that Wike raised, which he said is well documented, Abe instead accused Wike of awarding to himself over 25 School projects without paying the Contractors.”

Eze stated: “I am not interested in the comparison between Abe and Wike who ate more Rivers State money than each other but addressing why on earth should a road awarded to him couldn’t be completed or the money returned back to the State coffers.”

Eze tipped Tinubu to be wary of Senator Abe, noting that a man who could divert N4 billion meant for the construction of road in his own community, is not a character to be trusted with matters of public and even private interests.