The Niger Delta Youth Leadership Forum (NDYLF) has strongly and publicly condemned Mr. Reuben Abati, former spokesman to President Jonathan, for his infantile diatribe against PDP leaders for allegedly tolerating Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s excesses.
In a statement released to truthlive.net on Tuesday, the NDYLF claimed that Abati’s trantrum was an obvious attempt to malign and denigrate Wike and the PDP leaders by labeling them as “hungry men who allowed Wike to take over the party.”
The position of Abati, according to NDYLF President Comrade Richard Akinaka, is allegedly a smear campaign, hatchet job and a blatant sign of a case of political attack against Wike.
In addition, he claimed that Abati’s assault revealed his unholy political affiliation and alliance with those who may have paid him to use his platform to disparage the personalities of purported political adversaries.
Akinaka said: “Reuben Abati has so far, in his conduct, not just on Wike, but other previous altercations with guests on his programme, demonstrated his partisanship, hence he is not fit to be on such platforms anymore.
“His attitude so far is a demonstration that he has failed to remove the sweetness of the lollipop (in his own words) attached to his former office as presidential spokesman and would want to return to such office to correct his previous failures.
“Wike’s records as a successful career lawyer and politician is an open book for even the blind to read and deaf to hear, having risen to a member of the of benchers, council chairman to Chief of Staff, Government House, to Minister and to one of the best governors in the history of Nigeria.
“And above all, a presidential aspirant who was an embodiment of the aspiration of the entire South as evident in the widespread support he enjoys which is clear frustration to Abati’s interest.
“But unfortunately for Abati, there is no record of advancement of progress in his decorated media career of about three decades. Since all these decades in his profession, he has failed to set up his own structure.
“A successful Abati in his career at this point should have been an employer of labour in his field to mentor other younger ones, or maybe he likes the people he promotes to perpetuate himself and deprive younger ones from growing. Abati as a presidential spokesman was not a match to the opposition led by Lai Mohammed who deflated and incapacitated him to the extent that Nigerians never knew Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency was perhaps the best.
“His activities in recent times could be perceived as though he did not work for his former boss – Goodluck Jonathan from the South in 2015 because some of us are just coming to terms with how he was unable to inform Nigerians of the good things of the Jonathan’s Presidency. In politics, his only achievement was an attempt to be a factional deputy governorship candidate of the PDP in Ogun State which he did not succeed.”