Edo PDP primary: Wike and his tax collectors
Both are hyperbolic, sometimes hysterical, too instinctive, love to speak on all issues, no matter how mundane or provocative, and are regarded as fearless and indiscriminate in choosing and engaging their enemies.It does not matter who the enemies are, or just how highly-placed or insignificant: an enemy is an enemy, one to be engaged rather than avoided.
But since the dour former army general Muhammadu Buhari mounted the throne, an unremitting humdrum has settled on Nigeria, a humdrum that has in the past few years been relieved only by the activities and unguarded utterances of Mr Wike. Anambra State governor Jim Nwobodo whose debonair looks sometimes got the better of him and illustrated his strategic mistakes in positioning the Jim Vanguard against the Ikemba Front.
Mr Obaseki had recently defected from the APC and joined the PDP after conferring with Mr Wike and other PDP governors in the zone. Until Mr Wike likened party leaders backing the Edo governor to tax collectors, it was thought that Mr Obaseki had secured the support of everyone that mattered. They said because an order was obtained from a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, then I am responsible. I have had sleepless nights to resolve the issue in Edo State.
That was not the first time he would whip up sentiment by taking on PDP chiefs. On September 11 last year, he thoroughly cleaned out the committee set up by the PDP to investigate the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu as the minority leader of the House of Representatives. We thank our worthy son, Austin Opara, for withdrawing from that committee, so that he is not entangled in the illegal activities of the tainted committee.
If they breathed too deeply or even swallowed noisily enough to irk him, he would descend on them with all the precision and boldness of an axe on a log. If that were not indicative enough of the governor’s marauding censoriousness, his audacity moved him to match the PDP grit for grit in 2018 when the party tried to move its convention and the presidential primaries from Rivers State.
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