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I’ll resign if you mention one thing you have done for Rivers State – Wike challenges Amaechi

September 28, 2020
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Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has hit out at his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation over his comment of being the best governor that Rivers has ever produced.

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Wike, who spoke on Monday in an interview on AIT, challenged Amaechi to mention his contributions to the state in his ministerial capacity. Adding that he (Wike) would resign immediately as governor if Amaechi, his predecessor, could mention just one achievement.

Governor Wike’s challenge came on the heels of Amaechi’s comment, who, while speaking on Sunday at the funeral of Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, a former justice of the supreme court, complained of rising insecurity, bad roads and intimidation of the judiciary in the state.

Amaechi said; “You have lost your voice. The sage (the late justice) has gone under and nobody is speaking. When I was governor, I gave people voices, but they have blocked those voices,” Amaechi had said.

“Everyone is scared. We are going back to when Ateke held sway. We are going back to the period where we run away from our people. We are back to a period when nobody could speak. But from next year, I will begin to speak, if nobody wants to speak.

Replying the minister, Wike said if the judges and judiciary have lost their voices, it is because Amaechi shut down the court for two years while he was governor.

He said he brought a lot of development to Rivers while he served as minister of state for education, but that Amaechi cannot boast of any achievement.

“Rivers people will ask you, what will you tell us. You’re doing rail to Niger Republic, which one have you done in your state? Wike asked.

“As minister of education, I brought faculty of law to Port Harcourt; I brought N500 million grant to Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, I built so many schools. As a minister, I’m proud.

“You’re a minister, tell Rivers people I brought this, mention one. If you mention one, I’ll resign now. Mention what you’ve brought to Rivers people to convince them. We’re too educated for you to go to Kalamari to incite them.

“He said judges lost their voice. He’s right, why won’t they? A man who shut down the court for two years, NBA didn’t say anything. So, if he is now saying that NBA lost their voice, he’s right. Today, nobody talks about it that’s why he has the audacity to tell NBA they’ve lost their voice,” Wike said.

“You went to a supreme court justice house to tell him the president is not happy with him, why won’t judges lose their voice?

“I also heard him say he’s the best governor. I have no problem about that, he’s very right. If a man can close the court for two years, why would he not be the best governor?”

Wike also said Amaechi wasted the state’s funds on many uncompleted and abandoned projects “when there was plenty money”.

According to him, if he was in possession of those funds, “I will turn Rivers state to paradise”.

Also reacting via his twitter handle, Wike alleged that “Amaechi was interested in awarding political projects to boost his personal ego than delivering services to Rivers people.

According to the governor, “A project like Justice Karibi Whyte Hospital was a scam because it gulped $39.9 Million on paper as there is nothing to show at the proposed site.

Rotimi Amaechi was interested in awarding political projects to boost his personal ego than delivering services to Rivers people.

A project like Justice Karibi Whyte Hospital was a scam because it gulped $39.9 Million on paper as there is nothing to show at the proposed site. pic.twitter.com/3SfFvdbbOf

— Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (@GovWike) September 28, 2020

“The sum of N65 Billion was spent on the 1.2 kilometers Monorail Project which was conceived as a white elephant project.

“Most of such political projects existed either on the pages of Newspapers or were used to settle political allies.

Tags: Governor WikePort HarcourtRivers StateRotimi Amaechi
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