Secondus Rebukes Governor Wike; Tells Him “You Cannot Be Governor Forever”

By Charles Igbo

The immediate past National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus,  has reminded  the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, of the transient nature of power. “You will not be Governor forever”, Secondus told Wike.

Secondus said this in a terse statement while responding to Wike’s threat that he would crush all those associating and conniving with Secondus in support of the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

On Saturday at a function in Omagwa, Ikwerre, Wike had, in his usual brash and blunt manner, allegedly said he would crush all those working with Secondus for Atiku, noting that a number of them has shifted their loyalty away from him.

Wike: “We will take every might that we have. We will even leave our enemy and finish you first.

“So, all of you going to Abuja to hold meetings with our enemies in the State,  I’m going to finish you to the last.”

But Secondus, in a terse statement released from his Media Office reminded Wike that he would not be Governor forever.

He derided what he described as the Governor’s “disdainful threat that he would crush anybody who works with him in support of the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.”

He went further: “Wike, you cannot crush anybody. I cannot fight or join issue with you. Only God can crush.

“No condition is permanent, and nobody can become Governor of a State or President of his country forever.”

Secondus and Wike were close political allies. It was Wike who literally installed Secondus as the PDP National Chairman. Ironically, midway into his tenure, Wike moved against Secondus, and removed him from office over, according to Wike, incompetence.

Secondus on his part said Wike went after him because he refused to allow Wike run the office of the National Chairman for him.

However, not a few people now think that Wike wanted Secondus out because of his (Wike’s) Presidential ambition. They say Wike did not Secondus to preside over the Presidential Primary. Unfortunately, that did not help the Governor much.

In the case of Atiku, Wike declared him a political enemy after Atiku defeated him at the PDP Presidential Primary. The relationship soured more than ever when Atiku picked Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate instead of Wike.

Since then, the PDP has known no peace as it has been literally divided into Camp Atiku and Camp Wike.

In Rivers State, Wike has gone after his allies who  visited Atiku without his knowledge. He, also, wants the National Chairman of the Party, Iyorchia Ayu to step down since the Presidential candidate is, like Ayu, a Northerner. Ayu has refused to do so insisting he was elected to a four-year tenure.

The PDP is desperate to make peace between Atiku and Wike. The two PDP chieftains have nominated representatives from their different camps to meet and find a lasting solution to the crisis between them.