Former governor of Rivers State and Minister of
Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has described the statement
credited to Governor Nyesom Wike that he spent $150 million during the general election as an imaginary tale,
a bogus and fallacious concoction.
Amaechi also said that all efforts by Wike
and his cohorts to denigrate his name in the media will fail. In a statement by
the media office of the minister, Amaechi said that it was worrisome and sad
that Governor Wike picked a church, a sacred temple of God, to tell his tales.
He said, It continues to baffle us, like most right-thinking Nigerians, that
Governor Wike will stand in a church, a solemn place of worship, and
carelessly, brusquely tell such a profound lie.
He condescendingly descended to
falsely and indecorously shout corruption against Amaechi without providing a
single shred of evidence to back his claims.
The ‘story-story’ this time is
about another phantom $150 million that Amaechi purportedly stole from Rivers
State Government coffers and siphoned to his party, the All Progressives
Congress, APC, within 18 days, from December 1 to 18 of 2014.
This new
scurrilous fabrication by Governor Wike is in sync with the one-point agenda of
the Wike administration, which is to throw as much mud as possible at former
governor Amaechi, hoping that some may at least stick.
All sorts of spurious
stories about alleged corruption and stealing of state funds against the
Amaechi administration, have been bandied in the media with no attempt to
substantiate or prove these distorted false claims that completely make
nonsense of common sense.
Even, when Amaechi challenged the Wike
administration and its agents to use any constitutionally available legal
process or procedure to prove their jaundiced, deceitful allegations against
him and his administration, they have rather elected to do their own corruption
probe, trial and conviction in the media, and now, even inside our solemn
places of worship.
Why would a government be so determined to desecrate and
destroy every institution all in the name of playing politics?’’
He challenged
Governor Wike to explain to Nigerians how the money transfer was done and where
it was transffered from.
Governor Wike should tell Nigerians who collected
the $150 million on behalf of APC. From which state government account(s) was
the $150 million taken? How was the $150 million taken and given to APC? Was it
by wired transfer from Rivers State Government account(s) to APC account
Rivers people and Nigerians are indeed sick and tired of this old worn-out
trick of Governor Wike to hoodwink and distract Rivers people from the real
issues.
Making a new spurious allegation of corruption against Amaechi every
day will not make Rivers people forget that most of the beautiful, working
institutions built by the Amaechi administration are now being allowed to rot
away despite of the billions of naira that had accrued to the state and the
billions of naira borrowed by Wike.
Rivers people want to know why weeds and
grasses have taken over the beautiful schools built by Amaechi?
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