Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike whose tenure ends soon, has been up to his eyeballs in political unrest since assuming office in 2015. What initially began as in-house spats at the state level later escalated into full-scale national feuds...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike whose tenure ends soon, has been up to his eyeballs in political unrest since assuming office in 2015. What initially began as in-house spats at the state level later escalated into full-scale national feuds, following the eleventh-hour ‘robbery’ in the last year’s presidential primary in Abuja.
His fight can be explained against the backdrop of his party hierarchies and the socio-economic status of Rivers, where the impact of the Federal Government has been minimally felt. Within the PDP for instance, power is concentrated in the hands of non-Rivers people and there is no plan to zone the national chairmanship to the South-South even when Uche Secondus had resigned for Iyorchia Ayu. The crisis rocking the party took a dramatic turn at that point.
Rivers has been a principal financier to Nigeria for years due to its vast resources of crude oil and natural gas. Considering this enormous influence, one wonders why its people cannot speak in one voice and liberate the state from politicians who squander abroad the revenue generated from Rivers crude oil. It is neither the cashless policy nor Atiku, Obi or Tinubu that will liberate Rivers and its people, it is the governor and the Rivers people.
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