Rivers state governor, Chief Nyeson Wike has made it clear that he has no hand whatsoever in the ongoing travail suffered by his predecessor and former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, at the ministerial screening by the Senate.
Wike expressed shock that the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, has been pedaling “falsehood” that he was doing everything possible to stop the former governor from becoming a minister in President Mohhamadu Buhari’s cabinet.
The governor, through his media adviser, Simeon Nwakaudu, in a statement, raised an alarm that APC has been disseminating utter lies to the public on his alleged role in Amaechi’s current political travail.
APC had alleged that governor Wike is bribing Senators to stop the clearance of Rotimi Amaechi, whose Ministerial Screening by the Senate had been deferred, asking Nigerians to disregard the report as it was a mere fabrication by a medium built on the foundation of “falsehood and sponsored by the APC to mislead Nigerians and the world.
“While it is the prerogative of Sahara Reporters and other APC sponsored media outfits to support their benefactor, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, despite the glaring cases of mass corruption hanging over his head as exemplified by the White Paper on the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Sale of Valued Assets of Rivers State and other matters, they should leave Governor Wike and the distinguished Senators out of their desperate propaganda.
“Governor Wike is a law-abiding politician and administrator who abhors impunity.
“He is focused on the development of Rivers State and the recovery of all state resources stolen by former officials of Rivers State.”
It will be recalled that former governor Rotimi Amaechi is one of the few ministerial nominees whose screening has been deferred twice by the senate thereby raising dust that may be more to it. [myad]
