The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has taken the President Muhammadu Buhari-led ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the cleaners, for waging a one-sided war against corruption.
He also alleged that the APC’s fight against corruption, was targeted at intimidating political opponents, claiming that the ruling party had only been prosecuting former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors.
Wike, who spoke on Friday, at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when he granted audience to the Abuluoma Council of Chiefs, alleged that there was no sincerity in the fight against corruption by Buhari.
“Nigerians have seen that the present ruling party (APC), has nothing to offer them, except to tell lies. They claim they are fighting corruption, but how many APC’s former governors have been arraigned? Nobody is against the government fighting corruption, but it must be fought with sincerity.
“Even when an APC former Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, was indicted by a Judicial Commission of Inquiry, they failed to prosecute such a person.
“I have just heard that they have arrested a former Niger State Governor after two years. Maybe because political activities are picking up, and they want to intimidate him, that is why this is happening now.”
In reaction, APC’s Publicity Secretary in Rivers, Chris Finebone, said: “It is unfortunate that Wike talks before he thinks, and in the process commits needless goofs. While other PDP Governors are keeping their tongues in check, because they know the role of PDP in the fate that all Nigerians are suffering today, only Wike exhibits unwarranted and embarrassing verbal incontinence every now and then.
“Every patience by Rivers people that their Governor will rise to conduct his public speaking with candour expected of a Governor, has been dashed, as if he is the only Governor in the present dispensation who came into office unprepared and unqualified. It may well be so though.
“Wike has no moral plank to stand upon to talk about how the Federal Government is fighting corruption, having hidden behind a curious court judgment to escape justice in the past. He should be patient until his immunity as Governor expires. So that he can better assess how good or bad the anti-corruption fight is being fought.’’
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