Rivers APC Berates Wike Over Asup Strike …Apologises For his Nomination

The All Progressives
Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has berated the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike for allegedly ruining tertiary education in the country.
APC, in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs to the party’s State Chairman, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, regretted that Wike had become a tool for the destruction of the country’s education sector, as against the record of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who nominated him for the ministerial position.
The party apologized to all Nigerians, especially to students and lecturers in the tertiary institutions for presenting Wike to President Goodluck Jonathan for ministerial appointment.
“Never in our wildest imagination did we forsee that Chief Wike, the Supervising Minister of Education, would turn out to be such an unmitigated disaster.
“We never envisaged that he would represent Rivers State so badly and become a tool for the destruction of the country’s education sector  in direct contradiction of the track record of the man that made him politically i.e Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who has achieved international fame for his zealous promotion orchestrating in Rivers State,” the statement said.
APC further accused Wike of orchesticiting a six-month strike that paralised university education, while  also ensuring that the nation’s polytechnics and colleges of education remain permanaently shut.
While commending the House of Representatives’ Committee on Edcuation for its determination to resolve the impasse between the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and the Federal Government, the APC condemned Wike for telling the House Committee that his ministry made no provision in the 2014 budget for salary arrears of the striking lecturers of polytechnics and colleges of education.

Chairman, House Committee on Chieftaincy and Conucil of Chiefs Bill 2014, Hon Chidi Lloyd (standing), making opening remark. Other members of the committee, Hon (Dr) Sam Eligwe (right), Hon Robinson Ewor (2nd right), Hon Ibiso Nwuchen (left) at the public hearing of the Rivers State Chieftaincy and Conucil of Chiefs Bill in Port Harcourt. Photo: Chris Monyanaga