Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman Davies Ikanya has criticised Governor Nyesom Wike for his failed attempt to demonise former Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
Ikanya noted that Amaechi, a former Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), had been vindicated in Wike’s corruption allegation levelled against him.
Wike was Amaechi’s Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt from 2007 to 2011.
The former governor recommended him to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 for a ministerial appointment.
In a statement yesterday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, by his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Public Affairs, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the APC chairman noted that Wike’s allegations were spurious, senseless and baseless.
The statement said: “The immediate past Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), George Feyii, and the Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside, in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, did not only dismiss the allegations as a figment of the imagination of Wike and his cohorts, but also provided concrete proofs that ex-Governor Amaechi ran the affairs of Rivers State, using transparent financial procedures that cannot be faulted by any well-meaning person or organisation.
“As Messrs. Feyii and Peterside made clear in their letter to President Buhari, the fabricated allegations against Amaechi, sponsored by Wike and spread through the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and amorphous groups, such as Integrity Group, are borne out of malice, with the sole aim to malign the integrity of ex-Governor Amaechi and his administration, to poison President Buhari’s mind and discourage him from appointing Amaechi into his cabinet.
“With the refutation …by Messrs. Feyii and Peterside, it is now very clear to President Buhari and other Nigerians that former Governor Amaechi is just one of our few leaders who ran a corruption-free and transparent administration during his tenure as the governor of Rivers State.
“Thus, Wike has failed abysmally in his desperate bid to tarnish the good image of Amaechi. Surely, President Buhari cannot be deceived by the antics of Wike and his cohorts who are seeking to stop him (President Buhari) from making Amaechi part of his administration, in recognition of his well-known managerial acumen and the role he played as the Director-General of Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organisation, in mobilising Nigerians to cast their votes for the APC’s presidential candidate in the March 28 election.”
Ikanya urged Nigerians to continue to support the Buhari administration to bring about the necessary change.
The APC chairman noted that with Amaechi’s excellent performance as Rivers governor, he would do much better at the federal level.
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