You’re a misfit – New
PDP carpets Wike over comments on ASUU strike
The “New” Peoples Democratic Party has
criticized the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, for alleging that
Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the Kawu Baraje faction were behind the prolonged
strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The faction’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Eze Chukwuemeka
Eze, reacting to the statement stated that “We would have ordinarily ignored
Wike’s outburst as the ranting of a confused and clueless minister but have
decided to reply so as to set the record straight. We challenge Wike to produce
evidence to back up his allegation or bury his head in shame forever”.
The nPDP wondered if Amaechi or any member of the faction,
negotiated on behalf of the Federal Government in 2009 when it reached the
agreement with ASUU, which it has inexplicably refused to honour, thus laying
the foundation for the lingering strike that has mortgaged the future of
innocent Nigerian youth.
It also asked if any member of the New PDP negotiated on the
part of ASUU during the recently deadlocked talks with the FG over the strike.
The faction noted that it was unfortunate for Wike to trivialise
the issue and to ridicule himself, instead of committing himself towards
finding a solution to the crippling strike.
“Unfortunately, it is the actions and utterances of court
jesters like Wike that have made perceptive Nigerians to describe the Goodluck
Jonathan administration as a kindergarten government”, it said.
The statement further reads: “For Wike to have made this
statement against a group that ordered her members to fast and pray for this
unfortunate strike for over a week and even set up a Committee under the
Chairmanship of His Excellency, Gov Babangida Aliyu to proffer solutions on how
to come out of the quagmire occasioned by Wike’s inability simply demonstrates
the lack of wisdom on his side.”
“We are at a loss as to how a supposedly serious government
should continue to retain such an incompetent and unserious mind as a Minister
of the very strategic Ministry of Education in a country teeming with
accomplished educationists and administrators if not for undemocratic
motor-park democracy he specializes on.
“In any case, we are not overly surprised by Wike’s tirade
because a man who could engineer the stoning of visiting State Governors from
other parts of the country without caring a hoot about the consequences is
capable of saying or doing anything, no matter how outrageous.
“Let us reiterate that should he ever make another derogatory
statement about the Baraje led PDP, we will teach him some lessons on how to
talk as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and he should note that
New PDP is not Rivers State where he has because of his greed messed up
governance!
“The fact remains that to say that Wike is a disaster as a
Minister is to state the obvious. We advise him to minimize the damage which he
is doing to the Jonathan administration by concentrating on his work instead of
busying himself, making enemies for the President whom he pretends to be
loyally serving but whose downfall he is secretly plotting in keeping with his
traitorous nature.
“Instead of President
Jonathan addressing enemies within his cabinet, he is busy persecuting and
embarrassing his true friends and political associates that matter in his
political calculations!” concluded the statement.
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