By Emman Ovuakporie
I know that many right thinking and wrong thinking Nigerians may call for my head or reason along with me after reading this piece.
After the demolition of hotels in Rivers state many names that Nyesom Wike’s parents never named him were attached to his name.
Some called him a dictator, motor park governor, toxic, nuclear, ‘agbero’ ‘bole kaja’ conductor but thank God his parents never gave him such horrible names.
These name callers should mention any governor in Nigeria thar has touched the hearts of his citizens the way the agbero governor has done.
By my own estimation, there’s none not even the Nigerian acclaimed state of excellence that has more than enough in its coffers to dish out to her citizens.
When Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state rolled out armoured tanks and bulldozers to demolish structures of perceived political enemies nobody called him an agbero governor rather his loyalists hailed his action.
In the case of Rivers the owner of the hotels is even a card carrying member of his party and not a perceived political enemy.
He simply violated the law of the state and he got an instant reaction from the man in authority.
Wike simply wants his state to be covid-19 free which he has exhibited without getting a dime from the Federal Government.
Okay !Obaseki was using his executive powers to deliberately bring down Kabaka’s house that he built before he became governor.
Coming back to the Crux of the matter and if I may ask what is an executive order?
Simply defined: an executive order is a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
Before Wike’s emergence in Rivers state the state was squarely on the shoulders of bandits and militants but the agbero governor took it from their hands and kept their power in government house.
The name callers said he insulted traditional Rulers who failed to hold their ancestral traditional Rulers staff and the man told them that it’s inappropriate because that’s their symbol of authority.
They quickly tagged him a primary school headmaster and forgot that it was only Rivers state that FG palliative of 1800 bags of rice was kept in Cross River State and when the man shouted nobody called him a toxic governor.
Wike has remained steadfast in his actions so far, he calls a spade a spade not an agricultural instrument and if that is a crime then the man is an angel in this part of the world.
When he congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari openny some people still criticised hI’m and his answer was blunt”I will not behave like others who will go and congratulate him at night-finito.
Also, let these critics mention any other governor in Nigeria that has made investments that will last the next 50 years in Nigeria for her citizens if not Wike, who?