By Suleiman Anyalewechi
“Neither David Mark nor Amaechi has any electoral value”
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike has dismissed the duo of Senator David Mark and Rotimi Amaechi as having no electoral values.
According to him, Senator Mark, the National Chairman of the opposition Coalition platform, the African Democratic Congress ADC , and Rotimi Amaechi, a Presidential hopeful, do not possess the political wherewithal to deliver their respective states to their party.
At an interactive session with the media, Wike a former Governor of Rivers State, and Amaechi’s former Chief of Staff, said Amaechi, even as a serving Governor, with all the full compliment of Federal might, could not deliver substantial votes to the All Progressive Congress, APC, in 2015.
The FCT Minister similarly mocked Amaechi ,as attracting no serious political gains for both late President Mohammadu Buhari and the APC , even as the Director -General of the Buhari/Osibanjo presidential campaign organization in 2019.
He emphasized that Amaechi’s self-acclaimed towering political stature has never translated into a political capital in Rivers state , even when he held influential national leadership roles.
Wike wondered how a man who could not do much at the peak of his political career and influence to sway the votes in Rivers state, would now boast of over-running the State.
“Are we saying today that if an election is conducted in Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi will deliver Rivers State to ADC?”
“Remember, he was a Governor , when I came to run as a Governor in 2015. Then he was in the APC. Who defeated him? And he was equally the Director -General of the Buhari/Osibanjo presidential campaign organization then.
“Also in 2019, when I was running for my second term, he was the Minister of Transportation, and still was the DG of Buhari’s Campaign Organization.
“Despite all the Federal might that was at his disposal, I still won the election. The late President Mohammadu Buhari did not get 25 percent of the votes cast in Rivers state.
“In 2015, he didn’t get it . In 2019, also, he didn’t get 25% of the votes cast. How do you now think such a person can win in 2027? ” Wike queried.
This is as he urged the opposition to prioritize grassroots mobilisation rather than playing to the gallery, as well as over reliance on prominent, but expired political figures for electoral successes.
According to the FCT Minister, Mark’s daughter had to abandon his father’s party- the PDP, before winning her election to the House of Representatives on the platform of the APC.
If Mark could not secure victory for her daughter in Benue state ,as former Senate President, Wike said it will be preposterous to think that he will deliver the State to ADC in 2027.
“Take, for example, Benue state, where the former Senate President, their ( ADC) so-called National Chairman is from, his daughter won election on the platform of APC, and then he was in PDP.
“Will you now say former Senate President David Mark will deliver Benue state to the ADC in 2027? Wike wondered.
He noted that he will be glad to have the ADC on the ballot so that the myth about it would be dymistified .
“I will be very glad if they (ADC) will be on the ballot in 2027 so that the stories will be over. The only thing you will hear next time is: ‘oh, the election was rigged.’ That is the only thing they will be shouting about. That is the only story they will come to tell people.
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