Nyesom Wike: A Traitor and Misfit ––Says nPDP

The New Peoples Democratic Party says it read with dismay the statement credited to the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike that Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the breakaway PDP led by Alhaji Baraje were behind the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The faction’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, expressed its dismay in a statement saying, “We would have ordinarily ignored Wike’s outburst as the ranting of a confused and clueless minister but have decided to reply so as to set the record straight.

"We challenge Wike to produce evidence to back up his allegation or bury his head in shame forever”.

The nPDP questioned if Amaechi or any other of their member that negotiated on behalf of the Government in 2009 when it reached the agreement with ASUU, which it has inexplicably refused to honour, thus laying the foundation for the lingering strike that has mortgaged the future of innocent Nigerian youths? 

And did any member of New PDP negotiate on the part of ASUU during the recently deadlocked talks with the FG over the strike? The faction noted that it is unfortunate for Wike to trivialise the issue and ridicule himself, instead of working towards finding a solution to the crippling strike. 

“Unfortunately, it is the actions and utterances of court jesters like Wike that have made perceptive Nigerians to describe the Goodluck Jonathan administration as a kindergarten government”, the faction said.

The statement further added: “We are at a loss as to how a supposedly serious government should continue to retain such an incompetent and unserious mind as a Minister of the very strategic Ministry of Education in a country teeming with accomplished educationists and administrators if not for undemocratic motor-park democracy he specializes on...

“A word is enough for the wise”