Rivers State Governor, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has declared that the governor-elect, Chief Nyesom Wike, was in for difficult times as there would be no money to run the state.


He stated that Nigeria was lucky that Gen. Muhammad Buhari won the presidential elections, adding that his administration would bring the nation out of its financial doldrums.


Amaechi spoke on Sunday in Port Harcourt at a special thanksgiving service held by the Greater Together Campaign Organisation (GTCO), the campaign outfit of the Rivers All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.


The service, with the theme: ‘I will bless the Lord,’ according to the organisers, was to “Celebrate God’s faithfulness throughout the electioneering period.”
Amaechi said: “God answered our prayers to save us. He also answered our prayers to save Nigeria. I’m not joking, we have no money anywhere. In Rivers State, no money. I think Nyesom Wike is coming, we are waiting. He will look for money for salary; there is none. Luckily for us, we endured these pains because we had to pay our loans.


“We are enduring the pain because we are paying our loans. Maybe he is lucky because we have paid out a lot of our loans if not all. So, he will have to manage. But when he pays out salary, we will see if any of them can do what we did in this state: whether they can build the schools, the roads, even to get a loan.”


Amaechi also stated that no security operative involved in electoral malpractice in the last elections in the state would go unpunished.


He alleged that a newly promoted Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Amadi, who served as Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in-charge of Operations in the state, during the general election, plotted to eliminate him.


His words: “I will say to all of you that there is a man called John Amadi, former Deputy Commissioner of Police, who sat down and ran a programme to embarrass the APC and embarrass the incoming federal government; even after Buhari had won the presidency. Now, to embarrass us further, I hear he has been promoted to a Commissioner of Police and transferred out of Port Harcourt. He will come back. John Amadi will come back; you will see. The only way he will not come back is if we don’t form government, but if we form government, he will account for his actions.


“After John Amadi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Khana said it is mutiny to take on the federal government, and sat down and fought APC as if he was a PDP member. I don’t know whether he has been promoted or not, but if he has been promoted, he will also come back. That one does not require a judge. The Inspector General of Police (IG) can promote them as he wants; he can even promote them up Assistant Inspector-General of Police, but they must all account for their actions.


“John Amadi intended to kill me and I will tell you how. On my way to my village to go and vote, I ran into some criminals attacking an APC member and I stopped. I stopped with the intention to rescue the gentle man and arrest those people, as governor. I did not know that they had given instruction to my own security not to obey me.


“So, when I told the policemen to arrest them, they were just standing. On further inquiries, I was told that we were told not to go anywhere they were voting. When I asked the C4I to reinforce security, John Amadi called them back and asked them to leave there. The only thing that saved me and saved the situation was that the Brigade Commander sent in soldiers.


“The soldiers sent the criminals away and the people were speaking my language saying, ‘somebody will die here now’ and who was that somebody, other than me? My SSS men were watching, my policemen were watching and my life was at risk. I am supposed to be the governor of Rivers State; the so-called Chief Security Officer.”


The Rivers governor however recollected what he went through in his quest, first to become the Speaker of the state House of Assembly and, later, the governor and declared that this was another moment of trial for the state.


“The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, is a man of rule of law. He will not punish anybody without following due process. Let us ask the incoming federal government to punish whoever contravened the law.


“What is happening in Rivers State is not new; this is another time of trial. Rivers people can choose to pray and fast as we did when I was to become the Speaker.


“This is the time to call God because without Him we are going nowhere. I prayed and fasted for 10 months while in Ghana and God answered our prayers.


“This time, though I will join in the fasting and prayer but I am not the governorship candidate. My own is to thank and appreciate God for what I have become; from being a Speaker to governor and now soon a retiree,” he said.


Also speaking, the APC governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, in his testimony, said he and his party faithful went through political violence and turbulence during the electioneering period and thanked God that the casualty was minimal.


According to him, the party and its members, from January, through the March 28 and April 11 elections, were visited with series of persecution, and singled out Eleme, Tai and Okrika local government areas as the places where the casualties were mostly recorded.


Peterside however expressed optimism that the elections tribunal would give judgment in his favour.

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/amaechi-tough-times-await-wike-in-rivers/209652/

Rivers State Governor, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has declared that the governor-elect, Chief Nyesom Wike, was in for difficult times as there would be no money to run the state.

Why not when he surrendered one of the richest state treasury to financing buhari buhari campaign and feeding his big belly.Thank the heavens he has accpected that he ran rivers aground

Peterside however expressed optimism that the elections tribunal would give judgment in his favour

Joke of the century

........and the tap is open again.!

Amaechi said he prayed n fasted for 10months #TO WHiCH GOD#

* LIE MOHAMMED *these ur offsprings are really learning fast

HE shouldn't worry he might not even spend 2 month in office he has a case at the tribunal already

We don hear

we go see

Amaechi shut up!!
U're just a thief.....simple!!

The second highest earning state in the country is claiming to be broke! ameachi just openly confessed that he mismanaged rivers state treasury. i still say if Ibrahim Shema of katsina was an APC member we for no hear word, he is the only governor that didn't take a single loan. it is time we make it compulsory for governors to work within what their states earn, ameachi is leaving debt for his successor and still has the guts to say "he will see if he can builds schools and roads".

Please don't judge based on party lines, is this kind of utterance supposed to be from any governor on the side of reason?

I luv ameachi! No gay ish.....

Rivers state is broke, just like every other APC state. No probs, Wike will restore some order asap.

Maybe or maybe not

Ameachi talks a lot

Dem use our money campaign

That's to say Amaechi did nothing while he was the governor

So Amaechi, you're indirectly admitting your failure as a governor?

Haba
Amechi
This is not good o!

I pity all those government workers that PDP used,
Na witchunting time we dey so
If I am Mba, I go don dey look for asylum now!

watching in 3D Live streaming TV - Dont worry Mama Piss would spearhead the affair of PDP this time around crumbling the party

Hmm! Nigeria as a whole is broke...It is not just Rivers state. Anyway,if you have problem lastinglong in bed, hit me up on BBM- 7C22F6EC.

Chai ameachi, it is not good oo.


You chop all the money still get mouth dey talk am.


this is taunting oo

I don't blame amaechi they party apc talk so much

how come I don't see any APC fanatic here to defend their Man.
2nd richest state in Nigeria oweing then what should happen to states like Bauchi,Zamfara etc who happens to be the poorest states in the country?
barcanista come hear ur guy oo

Amaechi....what did you do with the money?

See,my problem with most state Governors in Nigeria.

In the Bible...Jesus told a parable about talents. The gents in the story who were commended by their boss were the gents who took five and two talents....and dobuled them.

The one who got the punishment....went and hid his talent.

In Nigeria....we have been blessed with raw materials.Rivers has oil. Why doesn't Rivers take the money from oil.....and use that money to develop an industrial and innovative economy.

And why doesn't Rivers develop an industry around the manufacture of components for the oil industry...for drilling for example? Why cant Rivers develop an industry around the cleanup of oil spills. Or MUST all the research in the world be done by the West? Don't Rivers people have brains and intellect?

But no....they want to collect allawee and chop. It is not going to be sustainable.

Nigerian governors better go and read Lee Kwam Yeu. And then they should go and develop their local economies. Oil is not going to save us. Innovation and education will save us.

Oya Rivers...time to dig up that one talent and find ways to make it five. And you will do that by hard work. Mr Wike....una don hear?

The entire world witnessed the lawlessness, impunity and bloodletting that characterized the Rivers State elections, which were roundly condemned. Nigerians should resist the urge to defend lawlessness because of perceived kinship, because when the chips are down, these politicians will sacrifice you as one of the masses that were unfortunately cut down in their pursuit of democracy, and you end up a statistic.

If the tribunal finds Wike wanting, he should be allowed to face justice, otherwise he would be profiting from the blood of the innocent.

Amaechi, please be quiet! APC and the Loquacious syndrome. Can this parrot of a being just keep mute for once? While the PDP has continued to ensure no hitches for the incoming administration, this APC stooge keeps whining. Truth be told, the organizers of that service were there for the money and nothing more because they all know this parrot is a traitor to the SS. Instead of hoping he'll get a ministerial position, he's busy bragging about the sure failure of Wike's government.






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