A House of Representatives member representing Ideato federal constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has urged President Bola Tinubu to call the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to order.
Ugochinyere, while speaking during his official membership declaration for the Action Peoples Party (APP) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday in Akokwa, asked Tinubu to stop Wike from insulting the serving President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, John Azuta-Mbata.
The lawmaker said Ndigbo can tolerate anything from Wike but not to insult the leader of the Igbo nation.
According to him, the verbal attacks by Wike amounted to hostilities against Igbos, saying it will not be tolerated.
Ugochinyere said, “Mr. President, when your minister attacks our tribe, it is a declaration of hostilities on Igbo nation, especially when he is not called to order. You are the one losing. All because he wants to be governor for third term. So anybody who is not supporting him in his quest to bring down the place, the person must be attacked. But you don’t do that with Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo President. No Igbo people are still following in Harcourt except the few efulefus.
“Listen to what the Igbo people have said. Stay away from Nyesom Wike. He’s an enemy of our people for having that audacity to insult our President. We must make that message clear to him. Don’t invite him to any Igbo gathering. Let it be those ones who are collecting land with pot-belly around him. But you don’t play with Igbo nation.”
He explained that he left the PDP for APP because he had been embroiled with unending battles since joining, adding that the attacks were sponsored by the same PDP.
“So what is the point I’m making; that from the day one we started with PDP to this afternoon we are still in court with our party in a bid to retain the seat that for over fifteen years they never won until we brought victory to them. Now that we survived all these ordeals in the last three, four years, should we try it again? No. Should we test God to see whether we survive? Not to talk of the fact that some of them testified against us in tribunal our own partymen.
“Not to talk about the fact that they came here and changed entire state party executives and put members of another party led by one Austin Nwachukwu as a state chairman. This was a man PDP gave the entire delegate list, yet he still lost the primary and then went to Labour Party that people were winning with easily and finished seventh or eight in the general election.
“So we decided to exit from PDP and today my National Chairman, Bar Uche Nnadi has admitted me into the hall of a party of great men and great minds. I want to thank our national chairman for driving our party to this point where great minds are joining the party where today the party has recorded its first seat in Federal Parliament with the second seat arriving in the coming days”, Ugochiyere said.