Minister Rotimi Amaechi replies Nyesom Wike over $150m allegations

Minister Rotimi Amaechi replies Nyesom Wike over $150m allegations

Read the press statement below..

Sadly, on Sunday, February 7, 2016, Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers Statein furtherance of his administration’s one-point agenda, yet again, continuedhis grossly irresponsible, repugnant and contemptuous, albeit, feckless missionof denigrating and disparaging the person and office of the immediate pastgovernor of the state, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who is now theminister of transportation.

The ‘story-story’ this time is about another phantom $150,000,000(One Hundredand Fifty Million Dollars) that Amaechi purportedly stole from Rivers State government coffers and siphoned to his party, the All Progressives Congress(APC) within eighteen days, from December 1 to 18 of 2014. Sadly again,Wike picked a church, a sacred temple of God to tell his new imaginary tale,another bogus, fallacious concoction.

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 atformer governor Amaechi, hoping that some may at least stick. All sorts ofspurious 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 makes nonsense of common sense.

Even, when Amaechi challenged the Wike administration and its agents to use any constitutionally available legal process or procedureto prove their jaundice, 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 ofworship (churches). How callous! Why would a government be so determined to desecrate and destroy every institution, all in the name of playing politics?

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 shredof evidence to back his claims. How pathetic! 

Pray, Governor Wike, who collected the $150million on behalf of APC? From which state Government account(s) was the $150million taken from? How was the$150million taken and given to APC? Was it by wired transfer from Rivers State government account(s) to APC account(s)?  So many questions, if Wike had attempted to answer, would have made nonsense of his supercilious allegations.

Rivers people and Nigerians are indeed sick and tired of this old worn-outtrick of Governor Wike to hoodwink and distract Rivers people from the real issues. Making a new spurious allegation of corruption against Amaechi everyday, will not make Rivers people forget that most of the beautiful, working institutions built by the Amaechi administration are now been allowed to rotaway in spite 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? Why the standard working health facilities Amaechi built and left behind are now looking desolate and abandoned? Rivers people are concerned and worried thatcrime and criminals are back and have taken over. No quantum of mudslinging and attempt to disparage the inspiring legacies of the Amaechi years in RiversState would distract Rivers people from these issues.