You’re Ingrate, Modern Judas, Rivers APC Tells Tele Ikuru

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News From The State Sunday, May 10th, 2015

By Ignatius Okpara – The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a swipe at the Rivers State’s Deputy Governor, Engr. Tele Ikuru over his treacherous approach against Governor Chibuike Amaechi.
In a statement it issued Sunday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, APC State’s Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, condemned Ikuru, who he described as ”the modern Judas, who is willing to sell his master for material gain”, as well as declared he was an ingrate.

“We read with shock the description of Governor Amaechi as ‘irresponsible’ by Engr. Tele Ikuru during his ill-fated press conference in Port Harcourt few days ago, which he addressed in his new capacity as the Chairman of the Transition Committee set up by Chief Nyesome Wike, the INEC-declared Governor-Elect of Rivers State.

“It is sad that after serving as Amaechi’s Deputy for over seven years, Ikuru, who several times in the past described Gov. Amaechi as the Hero of Rivers Politics and the best political exponent from the State, is suddenly singing a different tune. This is the height of ingratitude and paints Ikuru in his true colours as a Judas who is ever ready to sell his master for mundane gain,” Ikanya stressed.

Similarly, the opposition described Ikuru’s attack on Amaechi as unwarranted, indicating: “Amaechi’s love for Ikuru is legendary. He chose him as his Deputydespite Ikuru having teamed up with Sir Celestine Omehia and others to frustrate Amaechi’s governorship ambition during the ill-fated PDP Primaries of 2007. With God’s intervention, the Supreme Court in its wisdom, revalidated Amaechi’s mandate as the authentic PDP guber candidate, thus making him the Governor”.
“In 2011, against the advice of many well-meaning Rivers people, Amaechi went ahead to select Ikuru as his running mate as he successfully sought re-election. It is also instructive that Governor Amaechi has refrained from either speaking ill of Engr. Ikuru or engineering his removal as Deputy Governor despite his defection from APC to the opposition PDP shortly before the 2015 elections.

“For Ikuru to now have the effrontery to describe his benefactor, a fellow who loves him with all his heart and who on various occasions left the running of Rivers State in his care, as a disgraceful leader does not only show him as an ingrate of the highest order but also indicates that Engr. Ikuru may need to subject himself to psychiatric tests.”

The Rivers APC noted while it was understandable for Ikuru to be tempted to engage in excesses, in view of Wike’s promise to appoint him the Secretary to State Government (SSG), he should tread with caution, especially as the declaration of Wike as Governor would soon be reversed by the Election Petition Tribunal.

Meanwhile, the party has congratulated the gubernatorial candidates of KOWA party, Mr. Kemka Elenwo; All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Charles Harry; Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr. Minaibim Harry; and Labour Party (LP), Prince Tonye Princewill, for joining its candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, in challenging Wike at the State’s Election Petition Tribunal.

“With the evidences adduced by all these great Rivers State leaders, we are confident that bloodthirsty desperados who believe that they can seize the governorship seat by hook or crook will soon be put to shame and showed the exit door by the Tribunal,” APC asserted.