Hassan Gimba, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Neptune Prime has said that since failing to clinch the presidential ticket of the PDP and having been found unsuitable material for vice president, Governor Nyesom Wike has been behaving like a child denied a feeding bottle belonging to a neighbour’s child.
Gimba in a lengthy article said akin to an elephant in a china shop, Wike has recruited some like-minded politicians on a mission to destroy the vehicle that gave them relevance.
“Having failed to cause an implosion in the PDP through the unconstitutional removal of its chairman, he has been crying about being victimised.
“It is on record that he deliberately withdrew from his party’s presidential campaign council and urged all those with him to do the same. He now runs around crying that he was not consulted when members of the PCC were being appointed.
“And all those from his state who joined are now called “enemies of the state” – or “saboteurs” in the parlance of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB).
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He said Governor Wike is losing the sympathy and understanding of those who earlier thought he was being altruistic.
“Proving German psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher and democratic socialist, Erich Seligman Fromm, right when he said, “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
“However, even though his antics are causing him diminishing relevance by the day, he is an elephant in the room that PDP will do well to sedate.
According to him, it is not only the PDP that has an elephant in the room threatening to destroy its furniture, adding that the ruling APC, too, has one.
“In June this year, in an article entitled “Governor Buni and CECPC Assignment: The making of a quintessential national leadership material”, Dr Ali Ibrahim Abbas, a public affairs commentator, said Governor Mai Mala Buni met a fragmented, dying APC in June 2020 and turned it into the largest party in Africa within a year.
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He said: “Upon assumption as the CECPC chairman, Governor Buni immediately embarked on a genuine and all-inclusive reconciliation process… built new bridges of hope, and aggrieved members reconsidered their stance and stayed back in the party.”
“Unfortunately, from the moment Abdullahi Adamu became chairman, everything pointed to his self-destructive mindset. Like an imperial overlord or a village headmaster, he stumbled from single-handedly endorsing a presidential candidate, to speaking down and harshly on candidates seeking their rights, and to sacking staff illegally as well as refusing to pay salaries.
“He has kept behaving as if the people that facilitated his becoming chairman are his sworn enemies, accusing them falsely, according to directors he illegally sacked, of leaving the party in debt. Ironically, he is the one the staffs at the party headquarters keep accusing of illegal withdrawals amounting to billions of naira,” he added.