…Says Amaechi is Devoted to the Peace and Development of Rivers State and as Minister, He Ensured Debts Owed Rivers By FG for Projects Execution were Refunded Under Wike as Governor.
“….If there is any iota of truth in the claim of the FCT Minister, one is forced into wonderland to take a deep reflection of how Amaechi pioneered the refund of billions of Naira in debt owed the state by the federal government from projects executed by Peter Odili and same Amaechi during his time as Governor. As Minister, Amaechi aid efforts to ensure the money was released to Wike, who in turn looted the entire funds and shared the remainder in his usual spendthrift, to various states to further his useless presidential ambition….”
Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has dismissed as fabrication of falsehood, the claim by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike that former Rivers Governor Rt. Hon. Barr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi plotted crisis in Rivers State when he held sway as Minister of Transportation under the Buhari presidency.
According to Wike, the former Minister of Transportation, actively worked with the federal government to make Rivers State ungovernable during his tenure as governor. He described a turbulent period in which he was assigned 12 Commissioners of Police within just three months, suggesting deliberate efforts to destabilize his administration.
He further alleged that his security was withdrawn at 11:30 p.m., a move he claimed was unprecedented for any sitting governor. Wike added that while he stayed back in Rivers to manage the crisis, Amaechi remained in Abuja, detached from the turmoil unfolding in the state.
Reacting through a statement made available to the media, Chief Eze said the FCT Minister, as a serial betrayer and unrepentant liar is one Nigerian whose public image remains a sad reminder of the oozing rot in our government. He represents the reality of a massively corrupt, totally dishonest, characteristically unstable, dangerously inept and failed leadership the country grapples with.
The APC Chief noted that Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi is a distinct specie of politician not given to violence and never supporting events that create atmosphere of insecurity in a bid to curry political relevance unlike Wike who perpetrated crisis, initiated killing and maiming and instigated the destruction of communities during his own administration as Governor, using non-state actors.
Eze recalled that the administration of Wike as Governor was notorious for communal clashes, incessant killings, serial kidnappings and other heinous crimes which cumulatively earned the state under his watch the hotspot of sundry criminal activities.
During the 2015 election, it is public knowledge the heinous crimes committed against humanity at the behest of the FCT minister sitting as Governor. People were slaughtered freely, families lost loved ones, it was a bazaar of bloodbaths and to this day, the scar losses and agony deaths of husbands and fathers with promising futures resides perpetually in the hearts of those who were forced into widowhood and orphanages to drive home the ambition of Wike.
The records of how he used Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, the infamous Rivers Police Commissioner whom he later deserted and left to rot in his foolishness, to cause havoc in Rivers State and make the environment ungovernable are there already placed before the world.
The facts of how he used, unceremoniously, five Members of the State House of Assembly to attempt to impeach Governor Amaechi, contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria, are there for any to read.
If there is any iota of truth in the claim of the FCT Minister, one is forced into wonderland to take a deep reflection of how Amaechi pioneered the refund of billions of Naira in debt owed the state by the federal government from projects executed by Peter Odili and same Amaechi during his time as Governor. As Minister, Amaechi aid efforts to ensure the money was released to Wike, who in turn looted the entire funds and shared the remainder in his usual spendthrift, to various states to further his useless presidential ambition.
In this regard, the Nation Newspaper by January 13th 2021 reported and I quote, “Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says the state has received the N78 billion it spent on the construction of federal roads in the state. President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the refund in June 2020. Sadly, there is no account of how this huge fund influenced by AMAECHI to be released to Nyesom Wike was utilized.
It was widely reported that on October 21st, 2022, President Buhari conferred on Wike “Distinguished Award in Infrastructure Delivery” and if Buhari government was against Wike as he claimed, how come the same Buhari Government honoured Wike with this award though knowing that such an award was dubious and unmerited.
Chief Eze called on the public, to, as usual, discard such an erroneous illusory precipitation by a loquacious fellow who lacks capacity to control his tongue before the microphone.
