Former Rivers State Governor and Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has on Tuesday condemned his successor, Governor Nyesom Wike, while stressing that he, Wike is playing politics with the safety and security of the lives of Rivers people.
Amaechi who made the condemnations in a statement signed by his media office, said Wike is telling deceptive lies and and twisting the truth.
Read the statement in full:
watched with disgust and disbelief the recent television interview of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, excerpts of which had also been used in some newspapers. It was the typical Wike, twisting, butchering and turning the truth upside down; and in most cases telling outright deceptive lies in his failed bid to denigrate, tarnish and rubbish the towering image, person and laudable, landmark achievements of his predecessor and now Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Most troubling, was Wike’s propensity, without any qualms whatsoever, to play politics with the safety and security of the lives of Rivers people. This is indeed most worrisome. It is no secret that Wike plays politics with development, the welfare and well-being of Rivers people. But no government should play politics with the safety and security of its citizens like Wike is sadly and shamelessly doing.
Governor Wike claimed that the brutal political killings and murder of the All Progressives Congress (APC) members and other hapless citizens in the State are cult related or a result of cult clashes.
What cult wars is he talking about? Since he claimed to have security reports, we challenge Wike to tell Rivers people the cult group that Franklin Obi, the APC Ward chairman in Omoku, belongs to, that led to his being gruesomely, beheaded and butchered, alongside his pregnant wife and teenage son.
Or did Franklin suddenly became a cult member because he had the guts and courage to host a resoundingly successful ward meeting of APC faithfuls in the same ward as Wike’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) State chairman, Felix Obuah, just a few days to the re-run elections?
We challenge Wike to tell us the cult groups and the cult wars that led to the killing of the innocent youth corper, Chukwudumeibi Okonta on the re-run Election Day?
Was the Youth Corper a cultist or victim of cult wars or yet another victim of politically motivated killings in Rivers State? Wike must tell Rivers people the cult wars that led to the brutal murder of hundreds of Rivers people since the so-called election that made him governor, and the cult groups that all those that have been murdered, belong to. Wike’s cult wars/cultists claim is akin to insulting and spitting on the graves and memories of all those murdered and their families.
With pity, we watched as Wike tried to compare the political killing of the late Okonta and INEC adhoc staff on the rerun election day in Rivers State to the fire accident that occurred at the home of the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State days after the elections of 2015. How pathetic. Even for Wike, this is a new low.
On the Rivers Monorail project, Governor Wike said that he will not touch Amaechi’s monorail and that the entire state has told him not to continue with the project. Can someone please tell Wike that the monorail belongs to Rivers State and it’s not Amaechi’s private monorail? Pray, Governor Wike, which Rivers people told you not to touch the monorail project? Is it the same Rivers people that have consistently praised the project and see it as a catalyst to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa?
Or is Wike aggregating the jaundiced views of the coterie of court-jesters that hang around him daily, as the opinion of the entire people of the State? It is sad, very sad that Wike has elected to play politics with this laudable project that was almost completed before Amaechi left office.
Governor Wike also described several ongoing projects in the State when Amaechi left office as ‘abandoned projects’ that he claimed to have completed or about to complete. He specifically mentioned the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity road that connects the Island of Opobo to Andoni and the rest of the State. What a shameless lie! This project was ongoing and was almost completed as at May 29, 2015. May we also remind Wike that the Eagle Island- Diobu road that he once claimed to have been abandoned was 90 percent completed with just the final course of coal tar remaining as at when he succeeded Amaechi.
It’s repudiating that Wike would even attempt to rubbish and destroy the laudable projects and achievements Amaechi made in the health and educational sectors as governor. Shamefully, what has happened in the past months since Wike became governor is that Wike has neglected the model schools and health facilities built by Amaechi and have allowed them to rot away, taken over by weeds and grasses, in tandem with his policy of not wanting to touch Amaechi’s projects or build on Amaechi’s enduring legacies. Governor Wike, these projects belong to Rivers State and its people, not Amaechi.
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This writeup is filled with innuendos, rhetorics and relatively empty vis-a-vis the response most Nigerians wud v been expecting from d Amaechi camp at this point. Till tomorrow the monorail project is a project that no sane govt will want to continue. Over 50billion naira has been expended within a distance dat will cost only N50 by Taxi. One wud v expected Amaechi to v thrown more light on d mystery movie at d Mile 1 Police station leading to d release of d Inec EO under commando-like operation and confirm or deny d generally accepted version dat d Gucci cap belonged to d State APC chairman. As per d Nysc Corp mbr (may his soul RIP), he was gunned down after his result which d Pdp won has been submitted and was returning with his colleague, d Presiding Officer 1. Amaechi wud v thrown more light too how an observer like me wud v suspected d Pdp and not d Apc in d circumstances surrounding d death of this orphan. One fact remains dat Amaechi truly worked in his first four years but abandoned governance at d altar of politics in his second time. Another truth is dat in times past Rivers election is won or lost based on d party in control of d security agencies but in this case people's dislike for Amaechi as a saboteur and some visible dividends of democracy Wike was able to put on ground made people to vote and defend their votes and this also made Wike preach free & fair election this time. Most of d Apc candidates in this re-run wud v had a better outing if not for d contagious influence of Amaechi, his loquacious personality and above all d curses heaped on him by many personalities (d clergy, traditional rulers etc). Wike was seen as a bigger Pharoah needed to tame d pharoah in Amaechi. The general economic hardship in d country under Apc govt didn't help matters too as well as their onslaught against a section of d country. Edo state Pdp might benefit from this Apc-phobia mood down here if they do dia home work well then Okorocha next.

Both are just jokers....

Please can somebody tell this Judas of Ubima to shut up. Rivers people needs all the money he used in sponsoring the APC in his inglorious misadventure. What a shameless man!

Loser.....

cry of a defeated bastard

This strip club goer Ameachi still get mouth to talk?

Are you still talking? Can't you just shut up for awhile, ask Tony Okocha what you did to him because of this your lifestyle.

The Parrot of Ubima is at it again.

Ameachi please speak to the fingers.
It was clear from all video evidence from the last election that your people don't want APC in the state.

At several polling units we could hear PDP chants and victory to Wike.

Ameachi just stay put in Abuja and forget Rivers, let Wike do his bit

With no apology I'm force to say U are a fo ol

biafransoul:
Please can somebody tell this Judas of Ubima to shut up. Rivers people needs all the money he used in sponsoring the APC in his inglorious misadventure. What a shameless man!

sammyp01:
With no apology I'm force to say U are a fo ol

The thing pain am

Display ur ignorance

biafransoul:


The thing pain am

In saner clime,Amaechi should be in jail but trust this is Nigeria where absurdities happen every now & then.The man is now a moral burden to himself,community,Rivers state & the nation.That the president nominate & still keeps him as a minister is really baffling.

The lion has finally spoken............



He blamed the tiger for all the deaths in the forest...... ;DThe lion has finally spoken............



He blamed the tiger for all the deaths in the forest......

The rantings of a pained sore loser!
Lizard forming crocodile

This noise maker Stil have the guts to even talk after losing his own local government area to PDP

Encyclopedia noted that the only Instrument that shuts Amechi up is wiked-wike. Beating him back to back since 1914