A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has berated Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, for describing PDP leaders in Rivers as “expired politicians and buccaneers”.
Speaking at a media parley in Abuja on Tuesday, Wike mocked PDP leaders in Rivers like Secondus, Abiye Sekibo, Celestine Omehia, Austin Opara and others for backing Governor Siminalayi Fubara, with whom he is in a political feud.
The FCT minister claimed he kicked them out of the PDP and insisted that Secondus was no longer a member of the PDP as the court validated his suspension.
“The other day, I saw a political conference organised by transactional politicians. Political vampires, political buccaneers,” Wike said.
Reacting through his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, Secondus said Wike once again showed “his well-known trait of being economical with the truth, harbinger of half-truths and a mastermind of outright falsehoods just to hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public to believe his brew by playing to the gallery and drawing some unwarranted applause and attention.”
Secondus described the former Rivers governor as “a showman noted for his double-speak, twisting of facts to score some cheap political points, and someone who stands the truth on its head.”
He said Wike’s utterances at the media parley was “appalling and rather unfortunate, more so (when) he characterized our revered political leaders of Rivers State, casting them in bad light by referring to them as transactional politicians, political vampires, and political buccaneers.”