“Wike’s entire relevance is owed to the same party, the same PDP which he wants to destroy. He was Chairman of Obio-Akpor Local Government under PDP, Chief of Staff to Governor Rotimi Amaechi under PDP, Minister of State for Education under PDP, and two-term Governor of Rivers state, again under PDP. He is unfortunately, the Judas Iscariot of the party. He thinks the PDP belongs to him to do with it as he wishes. He thinks he is bigger than the PDP!
The caveat emptor for Wike’s new-found friends in the APC, particularly President Bola Tinubu is to beware. The Octopus never changes its legs, its colour, its beaked mouth, its venom. It may be sweet today; it could be bitter tomorrow. Wike has one of his legs in the APC and his strongest armour is the patronage and the support that he receives from President Bola Tinubu. Naturally intelligent Octopus Wike never misses an opportunity to suck up to the President and to advertise his loyalty. The Octopus loves safe spaces, and Wike has found one in Tinubu’s patronage. His continued relevance rests solely on this. The moment Tinubu turns against him, as his arch-enemies wish, that would be the beginning of his retirement and the end of his relevance. There are red signals on display already. Wike is a Minister under Tinubu’s administration. He has consistently failed the power test by trying to upstage the Master. He holds more media conferences than President Tinubu. He even invites more journalists to media chats in which he does more of the talking, and the journalists just mop and hem and haw. His posters are all over the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in the same city where the President of Nigeria lives! He is practically the Saddam Hussein of Abuja. He even has more vocal spokespersons than the President’s team.
Nyesom Wike is a human being, his DNA is different. We wish him many more years of service but in terms of his fame and political career, I imagine it is safe to ask him: How far? What exactly is this all about? Whatever happens to Wike hereafter in the wild life of politics, it is clear that he is certainly one of the most colourful figures in contemporary Nigerian politics like Lamidi Adedibu (the exponent of Amala politics) and Anthony Anenih (“Mr. Fix it”) before him.”
