Minister of Transportation and immediate past Governor of Rivers
State Rotimi Amaechi has maintained that his successor, Nyesom Wike has
no damaging evidence of corruption against him.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Amaechi said Wike’s allegation
claim against him was the same “old, false, provocative rabble-rousing
of a distinctly delusional mind.”
The Minister stressed that Wike has been forging and contorting
documents to “defame, disparage and vilify him in his desperate failed
bid to portray him as corrupt.”
The statement reads, “Wike has nothing, we mean absolutely nothing
concrete to prove his fabricated claims. However, we are aware; as a
matter of fact, it’s now public knowledge that Wike has been forging and
distorting a cache of documents in his increasingly frantic efforts to
denigrate Amaechi. This forgery and contortion commenced immediately
Wike assumed office as governor and it is on-going.
“Nigerians were shocked a few days back when Livingstone Wechie, the
young man Wike used to accuse Amaechi of corruption and write false and
frivolous petitions to the National Assembly, EFCC etc, confessed freely
and openly, that all the documents he used to wrongfully portray
Amaechi as corrupt when he governed Rivers State, were phonies, forged
documents given to him by Wike’s Rivers State Government House.
“It is ludicrous and appalling that Wike is still talking about his
credibility bereft Commission of Inquiry, when Livingstone Wechie also
admitted that the forged documents was what was used as the template,
the basis for the Justice Omereji led Judicial Commission of Inquiry, an
inquisition panel Wike set up early in his administration to
witch-hunt, malign and persecute Amaechi.
“Nigerians are now used to Wike’s shameful charade whenever he says
he has ‘evidence’ against Amaechi. How can we forget in a hurry when
Wike outrageously claimed he had evidence to prove Amaechi’s ownership
of the $43million Ikoyi money and luxury apartment?
“How can anyone take a character like Wike seriously, especially when
he says he has evidence against Amaechi? How can a governor talk so
recklessly and irresponsibly?
“We will continue to remind Rivers people that Wike’s antics are a
clear attempt to distract and divert attention from his mindless
plundering of the resources of the State and spate of Wike induced
insecurity in Rivers State.
“Wike must realize that every lie has an expiry date. Rivers people
are tired and sick of Wike’s fake stories of ‘Amaechi this, Amaechi
that’, every day; rather the people want to know what happened to all
the billions of naira Wike has collected from FAAC, Paris Club refund,
internally generated revenue and the ones he borrowed.”