Wike shamelessly playing with lives of Rivers people, Amaechi says

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, reacted to a televised interview granted by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, warning the governor to stop playing politics with the lives of the people of the state.

Ameachi, the immediate past governor of the state also reminded Wike that the monorail project he started in the state does not belong to him but the people of Rivers State.

The minister, in a statement issued by his Media Office on Tuesday, said:  “We watched with disbelief the recent television interview of Governor Wike, excerpts of which had also been used in some newspapers. It was the typical Wike, twisting, butchering and turning the truth upside down and in most cases telling outright deceptive lies in his failed bid to denigrate, tarnish and rubbish the towering image, person and laudable, landmark achievements of his predecessor and now Minister of Transportation, Mr Amaechi.

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“Most troubling, was Wike’s propensity, without any qualms whatsoever, to play politics with the safety and security of the lives of Rivers people. This is indeed most worrisome. It is no secret that Wike plays politics with development, the welfare and well-being of Rivers people. But no government should play politics with the safety and security of its citizens like Wike is sadly and shamelessly doing.

The minister frowned Governor Wike’s statement that he would not touch ‘Amaechi’s  monorail project’ because the people of Rivers State asked him not to touch it.

“Can someone please tell Wike that the monorail belongs to Rivers State and it’s not Amaechi’s private monorail. Pray, Governor Wike, which Rivers people told you not to touch the monorail project?

“Is it the same Rivers people that have consistently praised the project and see it as a catalyst to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa? Or is Wike aggregating the jaundiced views of the coterie of court-jesters that hang around him daily, as the opinion of the entire people of the state? It is sad, very sad that Wike has elected to play politics with this laudable project that was almost completed before Amaechi left office.”

 

 

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