Rivers Govt House vandalised, unfit for now -Wike

Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, said on Sunday that he would not be able to immediately move into the Government House because it has been vandalised by the immediate past administration of Rotimi Amaechi.

Wike said that he would stay away from the Government House in Port Harcourt for the next three months because the bullet proof doors, furniture, cars, crested carpets, curtains and windows had been removed.

Wike, who spoke at the post-inauguration thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt, disclosed that all the vehicles in the Government House had been taken away.

Wike explained that he was able to observe the missing items during an inspection of the Government House after he was sworn in as the state’s chief executive.

He said, “As I speak with you, everything has been vandalised. I will not enter the Government House in the next two or three months. There is no vehicle in Government House, not even one. Yet the former governor (Rotimi Amaechi) talks about corruption.”

Meanwhile, the former Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, has described Wike’s claim that the facility was vandalised by the Amaechi administration as false.

Okocha maintained that the property in the Government House were intact before the immediate past administration left.

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