This pampered house servant of President Bola Tinubu and errand boy of the APC, known as Nyesom Wike, has somehow managed the inglorious feat of becoming one of the most loathed politicians in Nigeria, yet remains spectacularly incapable of grasping how harshly history is likely to judge him.
The ignominy and visceral revulsion evoked by names such as Idi Amin, Bokassa, Hitler, Anini and their ilk may well be the final inheritance of Nyesom Wike once Tinubu and the APC are finished with him. It is already common knowledge that 2027 may mark the end of his loud, empty “gra-gra” politics, when the APC – having chewed him like bitter kola, will spit him out without ceremony. By then, he will have ripened into a thoroughly distasteful political albatross, too toxic for even his former allies to touch.
Tragically, instead of retreating from his catalogue of malfeasance, Wike charges headlong toward self-destruction, convinced by arrogance and delusion, that he owns a political party and can rule it by tantrum and threat.
Wike, the land-grabbing FCT minister, conducts himself like a peasant suddenly favoured by fortune but unable to rise above his crudest instincts. He is the textbook definition of a public-service mistake: a man driven by raw greed and a rabid lust for power. Like a dog deaf to the hunter’s whistle, he mistakenly crowns himself king of the jungle, forgetting, as fools often do, that the lion waits patiently.
Wike is a shameless traitor, what polite society might describe, without apology, as an arrogant oaf.
Only a delirious man stuffed with folly and silly mendacity could imagine he can still build a house on land he has already sold. Do our elders not warn that only a bastard sells his father’s house?
It is utterly baffling that Nyesom Wike still believes he can retain a stake in the PDP – a party he openly betrayed and is now actively attempting to destroy to grease the ambitions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Wike resembles the emperor convinced he is draped in robes of golden silk, when in truth he parades through town stark naked. It takes a warped and deformed mind to insist that the price for peace in one’s own party is the adoption of another party’s presidential candidate; simply because one is feeding fat from that other table.
While Wike continues to fantasise about a PDP of his own invention, the reality is far less flattering – this clown with an over-bloated ego has long been expelled from the party, along with his rag-tag band of political mercenaries.
Now to correct the falsehoods peddled by this delusional character: History may be abused by liars, but it cannot be erased. Facts must be restated plainly, if only to prevent serial fabricators like Wike from polluting the minds of those too young to remember events as they truly occurred.
Wike told a bare-faced lie when he claimed that Bala Mohammed and Seyi Makinde “met him” in the PDP. Perhaps he spoke in a fog of ignorance, because at the time he was an insignificant back-seat character in his own community, desperately angling to become Rotimi Amaechi’s chief messenger, through whom he later squatted in Odili’s garage, praying to be invited to the sitting room. Wike has an inconvenient habit of forgetting his painfully humble beginnings.
For clarity, Governor Seyi Makinde had been financing the PDP since its inception. In fact, Engr. Makinde contested the Senate in 2007 – when Wike was still Rotimi Amaechi’s PA, otherwise known as senior messenger.
While Wike was scrambling for owo ita- “money for the boys” – in 1998, Seyi Makinde was already a trained engineer and a subject-matter expert in fluid and gas metering.
Makinde is no political jobber unlike the garrulous Wike. He is the Group Managing Director of Makon Group Limited, a fully indigenous Nigerian oil and gas company.
Unlike Wike, the barrister who has reduced politics to a personal cash pipeline, Makinde established his first oil and gas firm, Makon Engineering and Technical Services (METS), at just 29 years old in 1997, after years of professional experience with international oil and gas companies.
Makinde has been a billionaire since 1997. It is worth asking Wike, the wig-wearing embarrassment to the Bar, where exactly he was at the time.
Perfidy is Wike’s signature. He betrayed Odili, the man who made him. He betrayed Amaechi, the ladder he climbed to power. He betrayed Goodluck Jonathan and Patience Jonathan, the very woman who imposed him on the people of Rivers State.
Was this not the same reckless Wike who once begged to be introduced to Governor Makinde at the Port Harcourt Convention Centre?
In time, this tout, this power-drunk, small-minded dictator from Ikwerre, will be forced to confront a reality he has long evaded – his time is up.
- Dare Adeleke is First Youth Leader of the PDP, South West Zone. He writes from Ibadan.
