Amaechi: Wike has no evidence against me

Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has insisted that
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has no evidence to prove his
allegations of corruption against him.

He maintained that he ran a transparent administration, devoid
of spurious acts and practices, which his successor (Wike) has been
attributing to him.

Amaechi, a former chair of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), in a
statement yesterday by his Media Office, declared that his former
chief of staff and director-general of Amaechi Re-election Campaign
Organisation in 2011, was forging and concocting documents to
defame, disparage and vilify him, in his desperate and failed bid
to portray him as corrupt.

The Rivers governor, while addressing the Council of Traditional
Rulers in Port Harcourt on Monday, claimed he had evidence of
Amaechi’s corrupt acts as governor.

Amaechi said: “Wike has nothing, we mean absolutely nothing
concrete to prove his fabricated claims. However, we are aware, as
a matter of fact, it is now public knowledge that Wike has been
forging and distorting a cache of documents in his increasingly
frantic efforts to denigrate Amaechi. This forgery and contortion
commenced immediately Wike assumed office as governor and it is
ongoing.

“Nigerians were shocked a few days back when Livingstone Wechie,
the young man Wike used to accuse Amaechi of corruption and write
false and frivolous petitions to the National Assembly, the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) etc., confessed
freely and openly, that all the documents he used to wrongfully
portray Amaechi as corrupt when he governed Rivers State, were
phony, forged documents given to him by Wike’s Rivers State
Government House.”

“It is ludicrous and appalling that Wike is still talking about
his credibility-bereft Commission of Enquiry, when Livingstone
Wechie also admitted that the forged documents were what were used
as the template, the basis for the Justice Omereji-led Judicial
Commission of Enquiry, an inquisition panel Wike set up early in
his administration to witch-hunt, malign and persecute Amaechi.

“Nigerians are now accustomed to Wike’s shameful charade
whenever he says he has ‘evidence’ against Amaechi. How can we
forget in a hurry when Wike outrageously claimed he had evidence to
prove Amaechi’s ownership of the $43 million Ikoyi money and luxury
apartment? In spite of all the noise Wike made, all his
over-the-top political dramatisation of Amaechi ownership of the
Ikoyi money, Wike could not even go to court to claim the money
with his so-called evidence. Wike has suddenly gone deaf and dumb
on the Ikoyi money, many months after his seven-day ultimatum for
the Federal Government to give him the money or face the mother of
all legal actions.

“How can anyone take a character like Wike seriously, especially
when he says he has evidence against Amaechi? How can a governor
talk so recklessly and irresponsibly?”

The Transportation minister also stated that he will continue to
remind Rivers people that his former aide’s (Wike’s) antics were a
clear attempt to distract and divert attention from his mindless
plundering of the resources of the state and spate of his (Wike’s)
induced insecurity in Rivers.

He said: “Wike must realise that every lie has an expiry date.
Rivers people are tired and sick of Wike’s fake stories of ‘Amaechi
this, Amaechi that’, every day.

“Rather, the people (of Rivers State) want to know what happened
to all the billions of naira Wike has collected from the Federal
Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), Paris Club refund,
internally-generated revenue and the funds he borrowed.”

Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has insisted that
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has no evidence to prove his
allegations of corruption against him.

He maintained that he ran a transparent administration, devoid
of spurious acts and practices, which his successor (Wike) has been
attributing to him.

Amaechi, a former chair of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), in a
statement yesterday by his Media Office, declared that his former
chief of staff and director-general of Amaechi Re-election Campaign
Organisation in 2011, was forging and concocting documents to
defame, disparage and vilify him, in his desperate and failed bid
to portray him as corrupt.

The Rivers governor, while addressing the Council of Traditional
Rulers in Port Harcourt on Monday, claimed he had evidence of
Amaechi’s corrupt acts as governor.

Amaechi said: “Wike has nothing, we mean absolutely nothing
concrete to prove his fabricated claims. However, we are aware, as
a matter of fact, it is now public knowledge that Wike has been
forging and distorting a cache of documents in his increasingly
frantic efforts to denigrate Amaechi. This forgery and contortion
commenced immediately Wike assumed office as governor and it is
ongoing.

“Nigerians were shocked a few days back when Livingstone Wechie,
the young man Wike used to accuse Amaechi of corruption and write
false and frivolous petitions to the National Assembly, the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) etc., confessed
freely and openly, that all the documents he used to wrongfully
portray Amaechi as corrupt when he governed Rivers State, were
phony, forged documents given to him by Wike’s Rivers State
Government House.”

“It is ludicrous and appalling that Wike is still talking about
his credibility-bereft Commission of Enquiry, when Livingstone
Wechie also admitted that the forged documents were what were used
as the template, the basis for the Justice Omereji-led Judicial
Commission of Enquiry, an inquisition panel Wike set up early in
his administration to witch-hunt, malign and persecute Amaechi.

“Nigerians are now accustomed to Wike’s shameful charade
whenever he says he has ‘evidence’ against Amaechi. How can we
forget in a hurry when Wike outrageously claimed he had evidence to
prove Amaechi’s ownership of the $43 million Ikoyi money and luxury
apartment? In spite of all the noise Wike made, all his
over-the-top political dramatisation of Amaechi ownership of the
Ikoyi money, Wike could not even go to court to claim the money
with his so-called evidence. Wike has suddenly gone deaf and dumb
on the Ikoyi money, many months after his seven-day ultimatum for
the Federal Government to give him the money or face the mother of
all legal actions.

“How can anyone take a character like Wike seriously, especially
when he says he has evidence against Amaechi? How can a governor
talk so recklessly and irresponsibly?”

The Transportation minister also stated that he will continue to
remind Rivers people that his former aide’s (Wike’s) antics were a
clear attempt to distract and divert attention from his mindless
plundering of the resources of the state and spate of his (Wike’s)
induced insecurity in Rivers.

He said: “Wike must realise that every lie has an expiry date.
Rivers people are tired and sick of Wike’s fake stories of ‘Amaechi
this, Amaechi that’, every day.

“Rather, the people (of Rivers State) want to know what happened
to all the billions of naira Wike has collected from the Federal
Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), Paris Club refund,
internally-generated revenue and the funds he borrowed.”