Dan Nwanyanwu is a serial blackmailer and hustler...Group.

A group the League of Nigerian Voters,has carpeted Dan Nwanyanwu, the national chairman of Zenith Labour Party, over his allegations that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, describing him as a serial blackmailer and a hustler.

The group in a statement signed by Ella Susan Chinwendu, National Cordinator, Wariso Wariso, National Secretary and Dave Moore, Ex-Officio, dismissed the allegations by Dan Nwanyanwu, that the FCT Minister sent sone people to kill him.

Describing Dan Nwanyanwu's accusation as "wild and scurilious and a Macrebre dance of Falsehood and Perfidy", the group noted that "Anyone who knows Dan Nwanyanwu, should have known the objective of that video, which is to grab attention and gain relevance and bill his motley sponsors".

The full statement is reproduced below:

Press Statement


Interrogating Dan Nwanyanwu's Macrebre Dance of Falsehood and Perfidy.


At first glance, Dan Nwanyanwu's comical outburst in his well choreographed video, would have passed off as a hilarious piece of situational comedy, if not for the serious allegations he levelled against a serving Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Ezenwo Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital.

Ordinarily, what should have been strictly for laughs, at once became a serious National issue, with grave national security implications.

Anyone who knows Dan Nwanyanwu, should have known the objective of that video, which is to grab attention and gain relevance and bill his motley sponsors.

A serial failure, who killed the Labour Party which was entrusted into his care at inception, Dan Nwanyanwu is a broke ass old man seeking for relevance and quick money.

To get to the root of this whole saga, it is necessary to interrogate what actuálly transpired at the pastry shop of Transcorp Hilton.

The incident which Dan Nwanyanwu has blown out of proportion was an innocuos encounter between him and Emmanuel Moses,a Rivers man from Emohua LGA . Emmanuel is a something of a comedian and a jolly good fellow with no criminal records whatsoever. On the day in question, on sighting Dan Nwanyanwu, he strolled over to innocently enquire why Nwanyanwu was intent on maligning a man who had done nothing to him,and whom he had ran to severally for favours in the past and whom he had been recently seeking appointments to meet without success.

Being an agent provocateur, Dan Nwanyanwu latched on to the harmless engagement, as a causus belli, to launch into his accustomed theatrics, raising a ruckus and screaming that Emmanuel Moses, has threatened to kill him. He surmoned security men including 5 gun totting soldiers in the hotel, who intimidated Emmanuel Moses and made him to sign a document written by one the conniving security officials without allowing him to read it,and also at gun point.

Beyond the theatricals and the 'notice me' posture of Dan Nwanyanwu, there are serious issues for consideration:
1. Is Dan Nwanyanwu a factor in Rivers politics?
2. What is Nwanyanwu's interest in fanning the crisis in Rivers State?

From the issues raised above, it is clear that Dan Nwanyanwu is a cheap hustler and a gun for hire. That is why he is more interested in stoking the needless crisis in Rivers State, which meddlesome interlopers and conflict entreprenures like him are exploiting for personal gain. we are also aware that he is on the payroll of a known Abuja land grabber who is unhappy with the Minister's drive to restore the FCT Master Plan and stop land racketeering. No wonder he has recently upgraded and now lives and frequents expensive hotels like the Nicon Hilton with his circus trade mark hat.

Dan Nwanyanwu's wild claims against the Honourable Minister of the FCT, Chief Nyesom Wike, is not only scurrilous, but a calculated and orchestrated hatchet job, conjured by a desperate and depraved mind, driven by lucre and insatiable greed. Nwanyanwu's single motive is to leverage on the Rivers political crisis, make a quick buck and curry favour from opponents of the Minister of the FCT.

This has been a time worn practice of Dan Nwanyanwu, who is a failed politician and a broke old man, seeking to cash out from the Rivers crisis. For years he turned the Labour Party into a personal ATM. Instead of building and nurturing Labour Party into a political brand, he used it as a political ATM, he used it as a platform for extortion, aggrandisement and cheap theatricals, until he was sacked in ignominy.

He is at his game once more and Chief Wike is his target. Perennially broke, Dan Nwanyanwu has been recruited in his latest endeavor, as an agent of land grabbers and some state governors, who are offended by the rising profile of the workaholic Minister and land the land reforms instituted by the FCT under his watch.

There is no dept that is too low for Nwanyanwu to crawl into, once he has smelled the whiff of money. He can do anything to survive, not having any means of livelihood.

His job is to move from the bar of one high profile hotel in Abuja to the other,listening to gossip, spreading disinformation and looking for potential clients for his dubious trade.

Today, he is posturing as the national chairman of Zenith Labour Party, a party that has serially failed to meet up with INEC registration criteria,and hasnt produced any elected member at local and national levels of politics. Instead of concentrating on how to position his party for the next round of elections, he is busy at his usual gimmicks of conjuring political falsehood for the highest bidder.

In tandem with his brother, Imo Ikenga Ugochinyere, who has left his business of representing, the good people of Ideato, they have descended on Rivers State, like a band of depraved political locust intent on feasting on the Rivers treasury.

It will be a disservice to Rivers people if any politician in Rivers State will fall to the antics of these political. buccaneers, who are on a treasure hunt. We call on all Rivers politicians and indeed Nigerians to be weary of do gooders and conflict entrepreneurs who are solely interested in milking Rivers State dry.