Rotimi Amaechi replies Nyesom Wike over $150m allegation

Sadly, on Sunday, February 7, 2016,
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State
in furtherance of his administration’s one-
point agenda, yet again, continued his
grossly irresponsible, repugnant and
contemptuous, albeit, feckless mission of
denigrating and disparaging the person and
office of the immediate past governor of
the state, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi, who is now the minister of
transportation.
The ‘story-story’ this time is about another
phantom $150,000,000(One Hundred and Fifty
Million Dollars) that Amaechi purportedly stole
from Rivers State government coffers and
siphoned to his party, the All Progressives
Congress(APC) within eighteen days, from
December 1 to 18 of 2014. Sadly again, Wike
picked a church, a sacred temple of God to tell
his new imaginary tale, another bogus, fallacious
concoction.
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 makes
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 jaundice, 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 (churches). How callous! Why would a
government be so determined to desecrate and
destroy every institution, all in the name of
playing politics?
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. How pathetic!
Pray, Governor Wike, who collected the
$150million on behalf of APC? From which State
Government account(s) was the $150million
taken from? How was the $150million taken and
given to APC? Was it by wired transfer from
Rivers State government account(s) to APC
account(s)? So many questions, if Wike had
attempted to answer, would have made nonsense
of his supercilious allegations.
Rivers people and Nigerians are indeed sick and
tired of this old worn-out trick of Governor Wike
to hoodwink and distract Rivers people from the
real issues. Making a new spurious allegation of
corruption against Amaechi every day, will not
make Rivers people forget that most of the
beautiful, working institutions built by the
Amaechi administration are now been allowed to
rot away in spite of the billions of naira that had
accrued to the State and the billions of naira
borrowed by Wike. Rivers people want to know
why weeds and grasses have taken over the
beautiful schools built by Amaechi? Why the
standard working health facilities Amaechi built
and left behind are now looking desolate and
abandoned? Rivers people are concerned and
worried that crime and criminals are back and
have taken over. No quantum of mudslinging and
attempt to disparage the inspiring legacies of the
Amaechi years in Rivers State would distract
Rivers people from these issues.