When he claimed he had joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, a little over a year ago, not a few members of the APC especially from his Emohua Local Government Area grumbled. Their grouse was that they know the man Chief Emeh Glory Emeh too well.
According to an Emohua indigene (name with-held), Chief Emeh is like a tiger that can never change its spots.
“We told our leaders that those of us from Emohua know this man very well but we were ignored. They welcomed him with open arms but today, like the typical political bird of passage, he has moved back to the PDP where he believes he has the opportunity to scam the governor of huge sums of money in the name of conducting propaganda against the APC,” he revealed.
It does not take much to realise that Chief Glory Emeh has already started work as a self-acclaimed propagandist and lie merchant. He seems to have nothing else in his propaganda scabbard to please and scam Gov. Nyesom Wike and the PDP than to create and project a singular agenda of an imaginary division in Rivers APC.
For the man who prides himself in being a ‘media’ man’ on account of planting gotcha stories in newspapers, started by planting a story of how the APC in Rivers State is divided along different lines. Two weeks after, he has just sent out another story under a pseudo name (Iheanyi Ezinwo) titled “Crisis of confidence rocks Rivers APC….as members move in drove[sic] to ruling PDP.”
This line of propaganda or narrative serves Chief Emeh two purposes. He uses it to accentuate his imaginary dooms day for the APC in Rivers State, something the right thinking public know is not true. The second reason is to try and justify his ignominious and shameful defection to PDP in search of filthy lucre, a movement even his Personal Assistant (PA) refused to do with his boss. There is no gainsaying that his closest associates rebuffed his persistent attempt of luring them to leave the APC and join the PDP. Tuth is that the man who regales in having made a fortune from former Governor Peter Odili through propaganda went alone to the PDP.
The real battle for Chief Glory Emeh should not be against Rivers APC, the uphill task before him should be how to launder his image as a notorious liar and serial betrayer before his old pals in PDP. He is known to have betrayed everyone else that has crossed his part in life. The list of his victims is too long for the space available here.
Undoubtedly, Chief Glory Emeh has a penchant for big ideas and sees opportunities to make money from propaganda where no one else does. He confesses to anyone that cares how he made so much money selling media-related dummies to former Gov. Peter Odili when he served under the latter. Emeh often narrates how he created some local tabloids, cloned existing ones all for the purpose of propaganda according to the textbooks of Chief Emeh.
While in APC, he attempted to lift from his old scripts but did not find easy victims to sell his dummies to. His motives were carefully studied, uncovered and ignored. Obviously his failure to sell those dummies for big money contributed to his decision to return to his old PDP camp where the Rivers State governor could be made to buy his schemes while Chief Emeh smiles to the bank.
However, he may face a huge stumbling block as there are already several handlers of the governor’s media activities. Beyond trying to personally bulldoze his way to secure something for himself directly from Gov. Nyesom Wike, Chief Emeh is likely to find out that like the good old saying goes, ‘all that glitters is not gold.’
By far, the most daunting challenge for Chief Emeh Glory Emeh is having to extract the confidence of most of the PDP members and Gov. Nyesom Wike who know Chief Emeh so well and perhaps more than they know the back of their palms.
Given the opportunity, I would advise members of Rivers APC not be worried with the planted articles and other lies under all types of pseudo names emanating from Chief Emeh as he has only one objective: to paint Rivers APC as balkanised and diminishing. When the public fail to see that happen, he will naturally run out of ideas as his only objective is to eke out big money from his new victims. Nothing more.
Tonye Banigo is a Port Harcourt based social commentator and political analyst
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CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE ROCKS RIVERS APC
…As Members Move In Drove To Ruling PDP
By Iheanyi Ezinwo:
The already brewing disaffection and polarization of the All Progressive Congress, APC, which have divided the party into three contending groups, is threatening the survival of the party in Rivers State.
The said rift, we gathered is said to be identifiable among those loyal to the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; party faithfuls loyal to Senator Magnus Abe, senator representing Rivers – East Senatorial District in Nigeria’s 8th Assembly, and others who are committed to the cause of the Director- General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Adol Dakuku Peterside.
Our source also hinted that, things have so fallen apart in the relationship among the three contending forces in Rivers APC that even in the distribution of resources, shares to individuals or groups are measured according to the perceived quantum of loyalty to any of the three factional leaders.
While the state former Governor, Hon Rotimi Amaechi and current Minister of Transportation in the Muhammadu Buhari administration is said to be counting on former caretaker chairmen, Dakuku Peterside is alleged to be relying on past and present leaders of the National Union of Rivers State Students, as well as those supporters put together during the 2015 election under the aegis of his Media Team.
On his part, SenatorMagnus Abe is resting his hope on the assurances of those considered to be fairly experienced politicians, who have held political offices in the past, but we were told that such support in the real sense of the word is not cast in stone.
Insider sources hinted that this degree of distrust and disaffection in the APC in Rivers State can only be traced to lack of leadership and coordination.
A stalwart who craved for anonymity, had this to say: “It is very unfortunate that APC is in this mess but I have no doubt that it will become very grave because, if you look, you will find that the party is made up of inexperienced men and women, while the experienced politicians in the state are all in the PDP.
That ordinarily should not have been a problem if not for the myopic and ‘dog eat dog’ situation in APC ; “The sorry situation in the Rivers APC is the massive movement of party stalwarts, particularly very few experienced politicians who worked under former Governors Rufus Ada George and Peter Odili.
“Most of those concerned were products of the famous Bulldozer of Rivers State politics, Chief Sergeant Awuse and Chief Bekimbo Soberekon, the flamboyant SPD governorship aspirant, who was also known as ‘Soberekon for the Masses’.
“The last straw that is set to break the Carmel’s back, and which is likely to drown
and bury APC in Rivers State with total finality was said to have been hatched in a meeting coordinated by a popular politician generally described as the technical strategist from one of the upland Local Government Areas.
“In that meeting, nine former Commissioners and about 25 former office holders were in attendance.
”They were unanimous that time is ripe to initiate a movement and it will appear that survival of APC in Rivers State is now on a time machine”. the politician who was in attendance further explained
