2019: Amaechi raises the alarm of plots against him by Gov Wike, Abe, others

A former governor of Rivers State and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has raised the alarm over alleged plots against him by Governor Nyesom Wike, and Senator Magnus Abe.

Amaechi, who is also the Director-General of President Buhari Campaign Organisation, accused Wike and Abe, who is a senator from his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), of working with two former commissioners who served in the State Executive Council when he was a governor, of conspiring to launch a smear campaign against him.

Amaechi made the allegation in a statement through his Media Office in Abuja. He said that the plot was to use the two former commissioners to tell fake, concocted and distorted stories to the media against him.

He said their aim is to use the alleged lies to denigrate him, and paint a very terrible image of him to members of the public.

He however said that noting will stop him and all genuine APC members, supporters and Rivers people from ensuring a change of the current “inept government in Rivers State next year.”

He urged the people of the state to “pay no heed to the desperate attention-seeking duo of Wike and Abe and all of their fabricated lies, but focus on the goal of ensuring that Rivers State gets a better leader that would turn around the fortune of the state and its people for good, come 2019.”

He said, “I am aware that two former commissioners who served in the State Executive Council when I was governor have been procured by Wike and Abe, jointly and collaboratively, to carry out this hatchet job of ‘hack Amaechi down’ campaign. The plan is to throw as much dirt at me as possible and rubbish my image.

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“While one is being coached in Rivers State Government House of what to say to the press and how to say it, to do maximum damage; the other one is busy distorting, concocting and fabricating fake screenshots, text messages, documents and all sorts in Senator Abe’s Freedom House campaign office in Port Harcourt; that they intend to release to the media to tarnish my image.

“I want to alert the media and members of the public of the smear plot by these two political collaborators (Wike and Abe), to unjustly discredit and smear me for their selfish political reasons.”

The supremacy battle of who controls Rivers which has existed between Wike and Amaechi, since the former allies became members of opposing parties in the last general elections in 2015, is believed to have made worse the electoral atmosphere in the state.

This is especially as the oil rich state has continued to witness heightened violence during elections.

Abe is representing Rivers South-East at the Senate but has been in tug of war with Amaechi following his ambition to become the governor of the state under the APC platform. An aspiration Amaechi has openly vowed to ensure never comes to pass.

 

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