Insists Wike is the one deserving to be
investigated
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
dismissed as a wild goose chase the probe of the Chibuike Amaechi
administration ordered by the Caretaker Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom
Wike. Wike had on Friday inaugurated a seven-man Judicial Commission of Inquiry
(JCI) with Justice George Emereji as Chairman and given a month to investigate
the immediate past Amaechi administration. “This is, at best, a fruitless and
laughable venture; a wild goose chase,” Rivers APC said in a statement signed
by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and issued on Sunday in Port
Harcourt.
The party noted that Amaechi ran a transparent administration and made
it a habit to render account of his stewardship to Rivers people almost on a
quarterly basis throughout his eight years in office as governor. “Only a
mischievous and treacherous person like Wike would, therefore, start sniffing
the ground in a bid to find out if Rt. Hon. Amaechi soiled his hands while
carrying out his functions as the Governor of Rivers State,” Rivers APC said.
The party said it is aware that Wike's desperate efforts to bring down
Amaechi and rubbish his good name despite all his feats as Rivers State
Governor are aimed to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from appointing him into
his cabinet. According to the party, “One thing Chief Wike and his evil
collaborators fail to understand is that President Buhari knows the politics of
Rivers State as he knows his fingers. President Buhari is fully aware that
Amaechi and his associates are being viciously persecuted by Wike because he
engineered the ouster of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria and
the election of President Buhari. Apart from the above, Chief Wike is embarking
upon this worthless vindictive venture knowing very well that he will soon be
ignominiously sacked by the Election Petition Tribunal since he never won election
but was imposed by Rivers INEC in collaboration with the then-ruling People's
Democratic Party.
Rivers APC made it clear that it is not
perturbed by Wike's abracadabra but advised Justice Emereji and his
co-panelists not to allow themselves to be used by Wike to cook up non-existent
fraud cases against Amaechi. “Justice Emereji and co should not allow Wike to
rubbish the good name they have spent decades to cultivate because it is Wike,
who is fraud personified and who has the blood of hundreds of innocent Rivers
citizens killed in his desperate bid to become governor, that deserves to be
investigated,” the party said, adding: “Deep down in him, Chief Wike is aware
if the panel he set up is to do an impartial job, the only issue they will find
to be absurd throughout the administration of Rt. Hon. Amaechi will be the
contracts for road construction in four local government areas of Port
Harcourt, Nkwerre, Abio-Akpor and Obigbo that Chief Wike cornered for himself
and his cronies but never executed after pocketing billions of naira. The other
would be the contract for schools which Chief Wike also cornered without
executing.”
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