A former Chief of Staff to ex-governor of Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, has insisted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should reward Nyesom Wike with a ministerial slot for his immense contribution to the president’s victory in February.
Okocha, who was chief of staff to Rotimi Amaechi, said neither the former Rivers State governor nor the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general election, Senator Magnus Abe worked for President Tinubu.
According to Okocha, who also served as the chairperson of the local organising committee for the Tinubu campaign council in Rivers, Wike deserves to be appointed as a Minister of the Federal republic of Nigeria.
He accused his former boss, Amaechi and Abe, of attempting to reap where they did not sow, insisting that they did not work for Tinubu’s victory.
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Okocha said Abe abandoned the APC in Rivers at the most crucial moment, and it was morally wrong for him to now play the anointed child of the Tinubu’s emergence for the sake of attention and patronage.
“Nyesom Wike gave Tinubu more than 70% support in the February 25 presidential election to ensure his victory. He gave instruction to all his supporters to vote Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He mobilised and paid party agents in the 6, 866 polling units in Rivers.
“Without Wike’s support, Peter Obi would have swept the presidential election in Rivers State. So, it’s only natural that the ministerial slot should go to Wike as a mark of appreciation and recognition.
“It is now that Tinubu has won that Magnus Abe is grandstanding and eulogising the president just for an appointment. It will not work. I will not support it. It is against natural justice and common sense”, Okocha said.
