{"id":1878,"date":"2014-09-17T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T07:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2014-09-17T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T07:16:53","slug":"wike-behind-jonathan-amaechi-feud-pdp-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Wike behind Jonathan, Amaechi feud \u2013PDP chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A chief of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State and former Chief Security Adviser to ex-Governor Peter Odili, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, has said the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike arm-twisted President Goodluck Jonathan to engage in a feud with Governor Rotimi Amaechi to enhance his 2015 governorship ambition.<\/p>\n

Sara-Igbe in an interview with DeltaNewsroom.com<\/em> in Abuja insisted that Wike pitted the President against Amaechi just to realise his political ambition, saying it had worked against the rapid growth of the state.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe issue of the crisis between Amaechi and the President is a self-made scheme of a particular aspirant who feels that such is the best way to achieve his ambition. And that aspirant has been able to bring fire at the backyard of the President to say \u2018well, if you don\u2019t support me, this fire will burn you. But if you bring me, I have the capacity to off this fire.\u2019 And so, Mr President is being arm-twisted.\u201d<\/p>\n

He therefore appealed to them to them to bury their differences in the interest of PDP and the state.<\/p>\n

He, however, warned that any attempt by the PDP to dance to the minister\u2019s antics by fielding him as its governorship candidate in the forthcoming election would lead to the party\u2019s doom.<\/p>\n

The security expert said the elders of the region were ready to make peace between the governor and Jonathan for the interest of not just Rivers and Bayelsa states but the South-South region as a whole.<\/p>\n

He warned that the PDP shouldn\u2019t make the mistake of fielding Wike as its governorship candidate because he is not saleable.<\/p>\n

He warned that Wike\u2019s candidature would equally generate what he called \u201cbad blood\u2019\u2019 in the state because he is an Ikwere man.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cIf the PDP brings a candidate other than Wike, we can achieve that peace but if Wike is the candidate for 2015 governorship in the state, we cannot achieve that peace. Wike\u2019s candidature will also generate bad blood for the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a person, I will not say Wike is a bad man or he is a good man but what I am saying is that Wike, as an Ikwere man, has spoilt the whole thing because an Ikwere man has ruled. Celestine Omehia ruled for six months and handed over to Amaechi and Amaechi has ruled for over seven years now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIkwere has taken it, Rivers State is made of more than 20 ethnic groups. So why must one ethnic group dominate it over the entire state? It is not fair. His (Wike\u2019s) candidature will cause tension in the state and there will be resistance from the people of Rivers State and don\u2019t forget that Amaechi is a sworn enemy of Wike, it will also generate bad blood and tension.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in his reaction, Wike\u2019s Special Assistant, Media and Communications, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, told our correspondent that most of the people making such comments were intimidated by Wike\u2019s political profile.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cIf at all there was any problem between the President and Amaechi, it started long between 2007 and 2008 and has nothing to do with the Minister of State for Education. How can they say that Wike\u2019s emergence will spell doom for the PDP in 2015?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe simple fact is that the party is going to do primaries and that is why they are afraid. It is for members of the party to decide. The leader of the party in Rivers State today is Wike\u2019s even when the governor tried to weaken the party before he defected. The man you are talking about, I don\u2019t think he is a strong member of the party and I can\u2019t recognise his name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chief of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State and former Chief Security Adviser to ex-Governor Peter Odili, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, has said the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike arm-twisted President Goodluck Jonathan to engage in a feud with Governor Rotimi Amaechi to enhance his 2015 governorship ambition. Sara-Igbe in an interview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Amaechi-and-Wike-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-ui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}