Former
Rivers State Governor Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi has described the so
called probe of his tenure as governor by his successor, Nyesom Wike as a
deliberate witch hunt.
Amaechi said Wike has gone ahead with his
plan of threatening, coercing and blackmailing officials of his
administration, especially civil servants into making false, phony and
bogus statements that would make legitimate government transactions
appear as corrupt practices.
In a statement signed on his behalf
by his media aide, David Iyofor, Amaechi urged Rivers people, the media
and the public to be watchful, vigilant and discern the fraudulent acts
of Wike to make him and his administration look bad.
He said, "As
I noted earlier in a previous statement, Nyesom Wike is going ahead
with his plan of attempting to deride and discredit me and my
administration by blackmailing and arm-twisting key government officials
to distort legitimate government transactions in his desperation to
cook up, and fabricate baseless, concocted and unfounded cases of
corruption against me and the administration I ran.”
“Only
yesterday, Tuesday, Wike tried to threaten, harass, and force Permanent
Secretaries and Directors of Finance & Administration (DFA) in
various ministries, parastatals, agencies etc in the state into doing
his bidding of painting me as corrupt in the administration of the
State. The State bankers and some of our contractors are also not spared
in his mission of tarnishing my reputation. As a matter of fact, Wike
has only one agenda as he governs Rivers State - the agenda to portray
me as corrupt, by whatever means, no matter how ridiculous and phony it
looks.”
Amaechi also described as a fraud the video and pictures
of the looted and vandalized Government House that Wike has been
showing.
"The images are a fraud, arranged and executed by Wike
to enable him vote billions of Naira from the state treasury to renovate
and refurbish the place, as well as accuse me of corruption. I repeat,
this is clearly a game, a grand conspiracy to siphon state funds under
the sub-head of renovating and refurbishing a supposedly 'vandalized and
looted' Government House, while also falsely smearing my image.”
"Wike
said the curtains in the Governor’s residence were looted, but even in
his stage-managed images, you could clearly see that the curtains are
still intact. I left Government House intact.”
"Rivers people should hold Wike responsible if there’s any looting and vandalism in Government House.
There
is verifiable information that on May 29, Wike stopped key Government
House staff including the Permanent Secretary (who’s the chief
accounting officer) from entering the premises, only to shout looting
and vandalism 48 hours later. Why were civil servants, including the
most senior civil servant in Government House barred from entering the
compound on May 29? Was it to give him time and provide cover to
stage-manage the shooting of the fraudulent video that he’s now
gleefully showing?" Amaechi asked.
Amaechi further urged the public and the media to disregard the phony images by Wike as its contents are fraudulent.
David Iyofor
For: Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
Former Governor of Rivers State
The attached pictures shows a true reflection of some areas in Government House just when Amaechi left.
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