The Rivers State chapter of
the All Progressives
Congress said on Monday
that the immediate past
governor of the State,
Chibuike Amaechi, was
clean and untainted by
corruption while in office.
The party urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to
disregard efforts by the
state governor, Nyesom
Wike, to tarnish the image
of the former governor.
Mr. Amaechi, who was
governor between 2007 and
2015, is currently under
investigation by a panel set
up by Mr. Wike, who
assumed office last May.
In a statement by its
chairman, Davies Ikanya,
the APC said if there was
any former governor that
was clean and spotless in
Nigeria, it was Mr.
Amaechi.
“Anybody who knows
Amaechi well enough would
readily testify that he is an
honest, sincere but
courageous gentleman, a
first-class patriot who is
ever ready to go the extra
mile to see that Nigeria
becomes a better place for
the present and future
generations,” it said.
The party condemned Mr.
Wike’s alleged desperation
to drag Mr. Amaechi’s
name in the mud, the latest
of which centres around a
sponsored documentary on
the former governor’s being
aired on Africa
Independent Television
(AIT).
It said the documentary was
part of Mr. Wike’s
propaganda war against
Amaechi for which he
(Wike) had “earmarked
billions of naira in the
wicked plot to destroy and
decimate the person and
character of the former
governor.”
The party claimed that other
propaganda tools planned to be
deployed in the war against Amaechi
include sponsored publications such
as advertorials, columns, editorials
and OpEd articles in major
international, national and local print
media; sponsored personality
discussion programmes in the
electronic media and sponsored
special documentaries for television
and radio through independent groups
and organisations.
It added, “This insidious plot by Wike
include commissioning a team made
up of persons within and outside the
state to ‘initiate, formulate and
contrive false damaging reports
bordering on alleged corrupt practices
of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
and circulate same to individuals and
institutions within Nigeria and abroad
with a view to damaging the
incorruptible character and rising
profile of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi in order to blackmail and put
pressure on President Buhari not to
appoint the former governor into his
government.
‘These cooked reports will be sent to
the US Embassy, UK High Commission,
EU Commission, and several
international organisations such as
Transparency International, amongst
others.
“The forged reports will also be sent
to local and foreign media houses
such as the BBC [Hausa Service],
Dutch Radio, VOA [Hausa Service],
amongst others’ for repeated
publication and airing.”
The APC also dismissed the allegations
against Mr. Amaechi as a replication
of the documentary terrorism Mr.
Wike and the Peoples Democratic
Party deployed against now-President
Muhammadu Buhari during the
campaigns for the 2015 general
elections.
“It is not surprising that the medium
for airing the documentary is the same
AIT that angered decent Nigerians
with documentaries that disparaged
the present President of Nigeria and
his family members in a failed bid to
make Nigerians not to vote for him,” it
said.
“The anti-Amaechi documentary is
simply aimed at driving a wedge
between the President and the former
governor in the hope that President
Buhari would be blackmailed into
leaving Amaechi out of his
government.”
It expressed confidence that “just as
the blackmail against General Buhari
was ignored by Nigerians, who
massively voted for him, so, too, the
President, having himself been a
victim of PDP and AIT’s documentary
terrorism, will also discountenance
the dirt PDP and AIT are trying so
hard to pour on Amaechi and accord
him his right of place in the new
Nigeria he staked everything,
including his life, to achieve.”

source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/190065-maechi-is-clean-spotless-apc-tells-buhari.html

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Interesting...

contd...

too late to cry, ministerial list already submitted without the unapologetic corruption hardened amaechi

Then obasanjo is holy...mtcheeew