A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Joe Korka-Waadah, has told Senator Magnus Abe to desist from ‘habitual sitting on the fence’ over the lingering political the state.
He noted the political crisis currently fueled by disagreement between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
Korka-Waadah, a Canada-based political management consultant, was responding to Abe’s comment at New Year Day gathering in Port Harcourt, where Abe allegedly accused Rivers political leaders of playing anti-party and those supporting Fubara against Wike doing so out of self interests.
Abe was quoted as saying: “No governor can on his own declare the seats of legislators vacant. Work with other patriots to save the state.”
In his reaction, Korka-Waadah, also from Ogoni ethnic nationality like Abe, said, “The former senator representing Rivers South-East District should know you can’t do same thing same way all the time and expect different result.
“Abe’s politics of sitting on the fence as false peacemaker when men of integrity need to be on the side of truth is what has ruined his political carrier and turned him into a Wike apologist, Rivers people having made him a political outcast.
“Abe may be justified with the half truth that all current active Rivers political leaders play anti-party, but his own anti-party and that of his foe turned boss, Wike, is legendary compared to others.
“Thrice since 2015, after losing APC guber ticket in every election circle, he destroys and sells out the party he claims to have brought to Rivers to lose the election to Wike’s PDP. And today, Abe is judging those supporting Fubara as selfish.
“He pretends to be for everybody and for nobody, yet licking Wike’s feet, after all the humiliation he has put him through.
“Today, anti-party Wike of PDP is minister under Tinubu; Abe, who claims to have supported Tinubu like no other in Rivers is left hard and dry. If Wike was not made minister, would you be dancing around him?”
On the faceoff between Wike and Abe, Korka-Waadah who is Executive Director, Compassionate Heart Foundation, Canada asked, “If those supporting Fubara to sustain his overwhelming commitment to Rivers development are selfish and not patriots, is it you Abe or Wike who are selfless and patriots?
“You claim to be neutral, but it is apparent where your self interest lies. How could an informed lawyer be accusing Fubara of declaring seats of legislators vacant when you know it is the law and not Fubara that frowns at sitting lawmakers abandoning their party platform without justification?
“I advice you retrace your steps and rejoin Rivers true patriots who are on the side of truth with Fubara. You can’t be more patriotic than former governor and elder statesman, Sir Peter Odili who brought you, Wike and contemporaries into political limelight.
“This is not time to sit on the fence. Rivers must be liberated from the stranglehold of one man. That task is being completed and nobody can stop the move, not you, not Wike.”
Credit: The Sun