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By Okey Maduforo Awka .
South East chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC has thrown it’s weight behind the party’s Progressive Governors Forum against the Rainbow Coalition proposed by the Minister for Federal Capital Territory Chief Nyesom Wike .
The party dismissed the coalition describing it as highly chameleonic insisting that the proposal would adversely affect the re-election of it’s Presidential candidate Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
In a resolution signed by the National Vice Chairman APC South East Dr Ijeoma Arodiobu and the Chairmen of the five states led by Anambra Chairman Sen Emma Anosike, the party wondered why Wike chose to meddle with the affairs of the party in reelecting its candidate insisting that the Progressive Governors Forum are a crop of Governors duely elected by their people and have been performing since being in office.
“The Leadership of the Progressive Governors’ Forum has rightly insisted on unwavering support for all APC candidates at every level, beginning from the Presidency, Senate, House of Representatives, Governors and State Houses of Assembly in the 2027 elections’
“It is in the light of this patriotic and forward-looking stance that we find the recent unprovoked, undignified and reckless attacks by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on the Progressive Governors’ Forum most unfortunate, reprehensible and completely unacceptable”
“Wike’s insults are directed at Progressive Governors who have performed so well in their respective states — governors who delivered over twenty-five percent of the votes for Mr. President in their states and have delivered measurable development, improved infrastructure, enhanced security and raised the quality of governance for their people”
“Progressive Governors are not abstract politicians; they are performing leaders whose records speak for themselves. To insult them is to insult the very progress and good governance that the APC represents”
The party further stated that Progressive Governors are not the Rivers State that Wike controlled and treated as his personal pocket.
The party further contended that are independent, elected leaders of their states who cannot be blackmailed by a despicable Wike.
The party accused Wike of misleading and deceiving his colleagues from three states during the last general elections using them to feather his own nest and later left them to their fates adding that the results he presented in the last election almost ruined the chances of President Ahmed Bola of emerging as the winner of the said election.
“The same Wike who could not deliver his G5 allies in Enugu, Abia and Benue States, but failed woefully, is shameless for insulting Progressive Governors”
“It is on record that Wike’s presentation of sloppy result sheets was strong evidence that almost cost the President’s victory in court”
The party observed that more troubling is Wike’s growing tendency to insult, diminish and plot to remove sitting Progressive Governors in 2027 is increasing each day while he simultaneously projects himself, in his own mind, as a co-president within an APC Presidency.
“This delusional assumption of co-equal authority is an insult to the office of the President, to the collective will of the party, and to every elected APC Governor who carries a genuine mandate of his own.”
“We therefore call on Nyesom Wike to immediately desist from further insults against the Progressive Governors’ Forum”
“He must withdraw the unprovoked attacks, show due respect to performing governors, and return to the path of party discipline, mutual respect and collective responsibility”
“The APC is bigger than any individual. The Progressive Governors’ Forum represents the authentic voice of the party’s executive leadership across the states.”
“Their position on the democratic election of all APC candidates in 2027 is the correct, progressive and unifying path”
“We in the South East stand solidly with all Progressive Governors and candidates of our party at all levels in the forthcoming 2027 elections. We will continue to defend the integrity of our party, reject any form of sabotage under a rainbow coalition, as we collectively support candidates of our party from Mr. President to the State Houses of Assembly so that the party can achieve total victory in 2027” the party stated .
