You lend to him at your own risk, Rivers
APC tells banks
Chief Nyesom Wike squandered over N60 Billion in his first 30 days as
the Rivers State Care-Taker Governor, the State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has disclosed. This amounts to an average of N2 Billion per day.
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, made the disclosure in a
statement he issued on Thursday in Port Harcourt. “In what is clearly a tale of
the absurd, Wike's rubber stamp State House of Assembly has approved a whopping
sum of N30B within 30 days for expenditure without any project attached. Apart
from this N30B, the administration of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi left the sum of
N7.5B, plus the N23B released to the State from the Federation Account and
Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), making the total funds available for Wike
to squander over N60B within 30 days,” Ikanya said.
He lamented that “within the 30 days, which rank among the worst in the
history of Rivers State, Wike has neither initiated nor embarked upon any
project apart from ordering a trailer load of his favourite Lexus XIII drink, a
bottle of which costs N1.5m, and sharing the remaining billions of naira with
Madam Patience Jonathan, INEC officials and others that supervised the killing
of Rivers State people so that Wike would become Governor. While Governors of
States like Kaduna, Bauchi, Sokoto Abia, Lagos, Delta and Adamawa that were
sworn-in the same date with Wike are initiating and executing projects aimed to
improve the standard of living of their people, the Rivers State Care-Taker
Governor is busy supervising the liquidation of the economy of Rivers State
through acts of squander mania unknown to modern governance in the entire
world. Wike has succeeded within 30days turn Rivers State to one of the
dirtiest States in Nigeria without security and in ensuring that our people now
sleep with one eye opened!”
Continuing, Rivers APC said: “We are reliably informed that Wike is now
at the edge of his seat and is desperate to source for funds by any means to
pay off the money which former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan used in
installing him as the Governor of Rivers State within two months instead of the
four years spacing as earlier agreed between them. Dame Patience is said to
have said that she can no longer wait for four years to recoup her investment
as she is not sure if Wike will last as Governor till September, 2015.”
Rivers APC advised banks to stop advancing loans to the Wike
administration as such loans would be difficult to recover if such funds are
released without any project attached to them. “The period of sharing Rivers
State money among some unscrupulous politicians ceased since 2007 and cannot be
reintroduced through the back door,” the party said.
It sympathised with Rivers people on the great tragedy that has
befallen them in the person of Wike but appealed to them not to be overly
saddened as the rightful Governor, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, is only waiting
for the Election Petition Tribunal to throw away the unprepared Wike to enable
him assume office and clear the mess that Wike is currently creating in the
State.
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