Amaechi prophesies: ‘Every plan of Wike against me will fail’

Former governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, went philosophical yesterday, in reacting to a statement by his successor, Nyesome Wike that he (Amaechi) spent $150 million during the last general election.

Amaechi who described Wike’s statement as an imaginary tale, a bogus and fallacious concoction, stated that all efforts by Wike and his cohorts to denigrate his name in the media will fail.

It would be recalled, that Wike, had accused Amaechi, of expending $150 million of Rivers State to fund the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) campaign, and called for the prosecution of all those who stole Rivers State’s money to sponsor the APC’s national election campaign.

According to him, between December 1 and 18 of 2014, Amaechi used $150 million from the state coffers to fund the APC campaign, promising that the state government will recover all stolen funds.

But Amaechi, in a statement by his media office, said that it was worrisome and sad that Wike picked a church, a sacred temple of God, to tell his tales.
The statement read, “It continues to baffle us, like most right-thinking Nigerians, that Governor Wike will stand in a church, a solemn place of worship, and carelessly, brusquely tell such a profound lie. He condescendingly descended to falsely and indecorously shout corruption against Amaechi without providing a single shred of evidence to back his claims.

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“The ‘story-story’ this time is about another phantom $150 million that Amaechi purportedly stole from Rivers State Government coffers and siphoned to his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, within 18 days, from December 1 to 18 of 2014.

“This new scurrilous fabrication by Governor Wike is in sync with the one-point agenda of the Wike administration, which is to throw as much mud as possible at former governor Amaechi, hoping that some may at least stick. All sorts of spurious stories about alleged corruption and stealing of state funds against the Amaechi administration, have been bandied in the media with no attempt to substantiate or prove these distorted false claims that completely make nonsense of common sense.

‘’Even, when Amaechi challenged the Wike administration and its agents to use any constitutionally available legal process or procedure to prove their jaundiced, deceitful allegations against him and his administration, they have rather elected to do their own corruption probe, trial and conviction in the media, and now, even inside our solemn places of worship”, Amechi stated.
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