The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
challengedChief Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Caretaker Governor, to declare
his assets in keeping with the requirement of the office he is temporarily
occupying and in line with the mantra of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
Federal Government to promote transparency and accountability.
The party said in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies
Ibiamu Ikanya, and issued on Tuesday in Port Harcourt: “In line with the code
of conduct for elected public officers in Nigeria, we wish to advise Chief Wike
to hasten to declare his assets.
The good people of Rivers State want to know the financial status of
the man whom the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wickedly
imposed on Rivers State as her Governor. They have been waiting for their
Caretaker Governor to follow the path of honour by declaring his assets, but he
has conveniently chosen not to do so because he apparently has skeletons in his
cupboard. There is, however, no hiding place for Wike as assets declaration is
not optional but compulsory for holders of the office he is accidentally
occupying in the interim.”
Rivers APC said it had earlier chosen to keep quiet on the issue but
decided to speak out in view of Wike's ill-advised dissolution of Boards and
Parastatals and moves to dissolve the constitutionally-constituted Local
Government Councils so as to be the sole signatory of the accounts of these
boards and local governments in the State.
“This request becomes imperative to safeguard Rivers State funds from
being looted with impunity and misappropriated, which is actually the sole
agenda of the Wike administration. We know that asset declaration may be very
difficult for Chief Wike to do, aware that he cannot give satisfactory account
of the source of his lavish lifestyle before he became Caretaker Governor and
his possession of most of the choice properties in Rivers State,” Rivers APC
said.
It however, challenged Wike to prove that he still has a modicum of
honour by declaring his assets and making the declaration public.
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