The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi has described the so-called probe of his administration by his
successor Nyesom Wike, as a sham, a fraudulent witch-hunt meant to deceive the
public.
In a statement released by the former Governor's Media Office Sunday,
Amaechi described Wike as a sick man who is sickly fixated on RUBBING him
(Amaechi) with his (Wike's) mud of corruption and then grabbing media headlines
with his concocted bogus stories of 'Amaechi's alleged corrupt activities.'
The former Governor also took a swipe at his former deputy Tele Ikuru
over his claims that the Amaechi administration under which Ikuru served as
deputy governor was the most corrupt in the State.
The statement reads: “This so called Wike's probe of Amaechi is dead on
arrival. All the noise Wike is making is to grab media headlines with his lies
of monumental corruption against Amaechi. It's all drama made for the media.
What is playing out is a script written and DIRECTED by Nyesom Wike. Wike
should move to Nollywood where his devious skills would probably be useful.”
“Even while inaugurating his yeoman COMMISSION of Inquiry, Wike could
not conceal his vendetta agenda. He was clear to the panel members that their
job is to indict Amaechi.”
“While it's no longer in doubt what would be the report of Wike's sham
probe COMMISSION. What may shock Nigerians is the extent Wike has gone and is
ready to go to manufacture stories of corrupt practices, and the kind of bogus
tales of corruption against Amaechi that he would soon be feeding the nation.”
“We are aware that even the Chairman of his Inquiry COMMISSION, was
shocked and protested when Wike gave him the litany of phony claims of
corruption against Amaechi that the chairman would write in the panel's report.
But Wike had assured him not to worry that he had since been working towards
arriving at that conclusion and he would provide the commission with all the
(fake) evidence needed to arrive at that report.”
“Truly, since May 29, that is all Wike has been doing; cooking spurious
reports of corruption against Amaechi. Wike has been intimidating, threatening,
coercing and blackmailing officials of the past administration, especially
civil servants into making false, phony and bogus statements that would make
legitimate government TRANSACTIONS appear as corrupt practices. Permanent
Secretaries, Directors of Finance and Administration (DFAs), the State bankers
and even contractors are harassed, threatened and blackmailed to twist and
distort, or even completely alter legitimate government transactions in his
desperation to cook up, and fabricate sham cases of corruption against Amaechi.
This has been the one-point agenda of the Wike government, a vendetta mission
against his former boss and benefactor.”
“Amaechi will use every constitutional and legal means available to
protect his name and image from this massive smear campaign, State-sponsored
onslaught against him by this directionless, purposeless Wike led government.
As governor, Amaechi served his people well and the good things he did with the
resources of the state are visible all over the state.”
On the claims by his former deputy, Tele Ikuru while PRESENTING a
report to Wike, the statement condemned Ikuru.
“We won't dignify him with a response. He's such a worthless piece of
trash that we won't waste our energy on. This is a man with no dignity, no
shame. No self-respecting man would talk the way Ikuru is talking right now.
This is a character that served the Amaechi administration for almost eight
years. While he was there, he never for once complained that Amaechi or the
government that he was the second-in-command was corrupt. As a matter of fact,
he was singing and parroting everywhere that Rivers State was truly blessed to
have a governor like Amaechi, that Amaechi will always be remembered and hailed
for changing for good the fortunes of Rivers State.”
“Today, the shameless clown is th ONE shouting Amaechi is corrupt,
everywhere. If the government was as corrupt as he claims, what was he doing
there for almost eight years, telling the world that Amaechi is the best thing
to happen to Rivers State? No character, no self-respect, no dignity, no shame.
A character like Ikuru should never be taken seriously”, the statement
concluded.
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