The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi
Amaechi, has accused the Governor of Rivers
State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, of playing politics
with the lives of the people of the state.
Amaechi, has accused the Governor of Rivers
State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, of playing politics
with the lives of the people of the state.
He also accused Wike of not taking the
development of the state seriously.
Amaechi, a former governor of the state, said
this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
He accused Wike of “twisting, butchering and
turning the truth upside down; and in most
cases telling outright lies in his failed bid to
denigrate, tarnish and rubbish his towering
image, person and laudable, landmark
achievements.
He said that most troubling was Wike’s alleged
propensity, without any qualms whatsoever, to
play politics with the safety and security of the
lives of Rivers people.
This, he said, was indeed most worrisome.
Amaechi said, “It is no secret that Wike plays
politics with the development, 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 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 become a cult
member because he had the guts and courage
to host a resoundingly successful ward
meeting of APC faithful in the same ward as
Wike’s Peoples Democratic Party State
chairman, Felix Obuah, just a few days to the
rerun elections?”
The former governor challenged Wike to tell
Nigerians the cult groups and the cult wars
that led to the killing of the innocent youth
corper, Chukwudumeibi Okonta, on the day of
the last rerun election on March 19.
“Was the youth corper a cultist or a victim of
cult wars or yet another victim of politically-
motivated killings in Rivers State?,” he asked.
He also said that Wike must tell Rivers people
the cult wars that led to the brutal murder of
hundreds of Rivers people since the election
that made him governor was held, and the cult
groups that all those that had been murdered,
belong to.
He said that Wike’s cult wars/cultists claim
was akin to insulting and spitting on the
graves and memories of all those murdered
and their families.
Amaechi said, “With pity, we watched as Wike
tried to compare the political killings of the late
Okonta and Independent National Electoral
Commission ad hoc 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 Amaechi
started, which Wike said that he would
abandon, the former governor said Wike
needed to know that the monorail belongs to
Rivers State and not his “Amaechi’s” private
monorail.
He said, “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.”
He said that Wike also described several
ongoing projects in the state when he
(Amaechi) left office as ‘abandoned projects’
that the former governor claimed to have
completed or about to complete.
The former governor said Wike 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 per cent
completed with just the final course of coal tar
remaining as at when he succeeded Amaechi,”
the former governor added.
Punch
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