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  • I made Amaechi Governor of Rivers – Gov Wike Brags

    I made Amaechi Governor of Rivers – Gov Wike Brags

    Governor Nyesom Wike has claimed that his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi became Governor of Rivers state through his help.

    Wike who served as Chief of Staff during Amaechi’s tenure, made the disclosure during an interview with BBC pidgin on Friday March 19.

    The Rivers state Governor stated in the interview that he wonders how someone he made Governor will turn around to call him an employee.

    He said;

    “Amaechi and I were in the same party, and in politics, everybody has his own ambition. He had his ambition to be governor, and at the time, I didn’t. So, we fought and supported him to be governor.

    “Now he’s in APC, and you don’t expect me as a PDP person to support what he does.

    “I was the one God used to make Amaechi governor. I will even give you a tape from what he said in the church; that after God, I’m next. But when he was talking the other day, saying I was his staff, his employee, I said no problem.

    “We all sat to make you governor, and I was the one who championed it. How do you call someone who made you governor an employee? When he became governor, he asked me; how are we going to run this government, and he offered me to be commissioner of finance, but I said no, let me be in the chief of staff office.

    “That time I made him governor, I had power to choose. People know in this state.

    “With his APC, did they even score 25 percent here during the 2015 and 2019 elections? His staff stopped him from winning Rivers for his presidential candidate? Stopped him from winning the governorship election for his candidate? Not even a senatorial seat?

    “Well, we have passed that. He said over his dead body will I be governor, now I am looking for that dead body. I have been governor for eight years now. In 2015 when I won, they said PDP was in power, but I also won again in 2019 when APC was in power.”

    Wike also accused his predecessor of mismanaging the state funds when he was governor. He reiterated that Ameachi allegedly sold the state’s gas turbine for $308,000 and left his government with $208,000.

    The Governor said;

    “See the monorail, just 1.5 kilometre, they said they spent N54 billion. I am not saying anybody is corrupt, but just see all these monies we have mentioned.”

  • Why Edo election was adjudged credible — Wike

    Why Edo election was adjudged credible — Wike

    Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers says the Edo Governorship poll has been adjudged credible because the process was transparent, while the result reflected the wish of the people.

    A statement issued by Paulinus Nsirim, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, quoted Wike to have said so in a live television programme on Friday in Port Harcourt.

    According to him, the Edo election was the first time everybody, including the civil society groups, agreed that everything went on well.

    Wike claimed that security agencies did not allow thugs to overrun the polling units during the election.

    He said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaigned from ward to ward and the people of Edo resolved not to be taken for granted.

    “If what was witnessed in Edo continues then there is hope for healthy democratic process in Nigeria,” he said.

    Meanwhile, Wike has raised alarm that attempts were being made to compromise the process of the upcoming governorship poll in Ondo state.

    He said that “while the people of Edo fought godfatherism, Ondo people would respond to several unfulfilled promises made to them by the All Progressives Congress (APC)’’.

    “The national leadership of APC is not happy that they lost Edo to PDP and would do everything possible not to lose Ondo state,’’ Wike said.

    He further said that “having lost Edo, everything will be done not to lose Ondo because they know that will mean the end of APC’’.

    “I fear that INEC and the security agencies may succumb to pressure. But I pray they resist it and continue to defend democracy.

    “In Ondo state, the will of the people will be against APC and incumbency will not work,” he said.

    The statement added that Wike also described state governors as “Chief Logistics Officers and not Chief Security Officers’’.

    “Governors do not have control over security in their states because those securing them can be withdrawn at will,’’ he said.

    He was also quoted to have promised that his administration would soon employ 6,000 teachers to improve the quality of education in Rivers.