When senior appointees of a government in power says they and other high ranking party faithfuls of PDP have lost confidence in the inability of the Governor Wike led administration to legally agitate for the return of Rivers State callously ceded oil wells, then their choice of words deserves great attention by the larger society of Rivers State.
While some of Wike's overexcited appointees, among other lackeys, would argue that, Wike be canonised for his ceding exploits. HE Governor Wike should never forget that, his early promises to retrieve the wells. Were promising steps in a bogey of bad gambling extremism and falsehood among other afflictions of this failed administration.
Governor Wike should lead his would be new cabinet members to desensitize PDP members to vicious philosophies and poisonous tenets that baits them to romanticize with negative thoughts and decisions against the person of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Governance should shift from lies into valleys of wit, progressive and constructive ideology. But has Wike nurtured such practicable and justifiable sociopolitical ideology?, can he achieve that?. Beyond his unrewarding policies and it's hackneyed sound bites, does Wike truly posses the courage, resilience and catholicity of will, to retrieve our oil wells?.
By urging the powerful and patriotic Transport Minister, to please, intercede on behalf of the Rivers State government, simply means that, the Wike government have admitted been incompetent and culpable in the ceding deal that has negatively rubbed off on the coffers of the State's IGR.
Now, the Litmus Test has began for Governor Wike's administration to prove to Rivers people and Nigerians that, he is capable than his mentor and boss, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in terms of patriotism, raw courage and selfless service to the State.
At the backdrop of these depressing realities and the ludicrous demand by Rivers State PDP under Governor Wike's watch. Maybe, they have forgotten that, Amaechi is way past that stage. He is now the Minister of Transportation, Wike is the executive Governor of Rivers State who has the sole authority to fight on behalf of Rivers people in all ramifications.
Those were the mockery mistakes, this is Amaechi's vindication and this is Wike's LITMUS TEST FOR OUR OIL WELLS.
~Rowland Orlu wrote from Port Harcourt
