The RIVERS State Governor, Chief
Nyesom Wike, said on Sunday that he
would stay away from the Government
House in Port Harcourt for the next
three months as a result of the
vandalisation of the property in the
place by the immediate past
administration.
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.
The governor disclosed that he noticed
that the bullet proof doors, furniture,
cars, crested carpets, curtains and
windows were not left behind by the
former administration.
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.”
The governor assured the people that
he would not disappoint them and the
Peoples Democratic Party.
In his remark, the Senate President,
David Mark, expressed optimism that
the PDP would return to power at the
federal level in 2019 as Nigerians would
yearn for the party after four years of
the APC regime.
Mark noted that most of the party’s
achievements would be glaring to
Nigerians within a short period.
The post inauguration thanksgiving
service reception was attended by
Deputy Senate President Ike
Ekweremadu, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha,
Senator Hope Uzodinma, Senators-elect
from the South-South and South-East,
Acting National Chairman of the PDP,
Uche Secondus and members of the
National Working Committee of the
PDP.
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.