Amaechi blasts Wike over corruption allegation

The war of words between Gov­ernor Chibuike Rotimi Amae­chi and the guber­natorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Barrister Nyesom Wike, over corruption allegation against the governor continued yesterday as the Chief of Staff, Rivers State Govern­ment House, Sir Tony Okocha,

challenged the former Minister to publish the docu­ments relating to the corruption, as he ear­lier threatened.

While addressing his supporters at Rumuo­biakani in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area recently, Wike accused Amaechi of spending N72,000,000 (seventy two million Naira ) on APC in Chattam House in the UK, among others.

But Governor Amaechi, on Thursday, through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. David Iyofor, described Wike’s allegations as ‘tis­sues of lies’, ‘Tales by moonlight’ and Wike, as a ‘drowning man’.

Reacting further to the allegation against their boss, Tony Okocha, who is also contesting as a House of Representatives member on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), decried what he called, ‘exhibition of intel­lectual emptiness’ by those who also spoke at the ral­ly, where Wike made the allegations.

Okocha said: “In the case under reference, speaker after speaker dwelt on attempt to denigrate the towering personality of an internationally acclaimed paragon of excellence Rt. Hon Chibuike Roti­mi Amaechi, Executive Governor of Rivers state, the question on the lips of many is : Is Governor Amaechi running for any elective position,? More worrisome is the fact that some of these speakers in­cluded those who plugged Rivers, purse in pursuit of their inordinate ambition, those who couldn’t say ‘Good morning Nigeria’ in their 8 years of misrep­resentation at the National Assembly. Those who are as inconsistent as the pen­dulum in a physics labo­ratory, those who like ant run to sugar, they are ob­viously on the wrong side of history in many ways. The crescendo of this in­tellectual poverty played out when the ill-equipped Nyesom Wike took the ros­trum, instead of standing up to the noble challenge of cataloguing the policies and programmes he would pursue if elected, relapsed it in his usual ragamuffin style. He effectively read a self authored script which was a mere concoctment of blatant lies.”

“Again, in a desperate attempt to malign and dis­parage the role model and quintessential gentleman of Governor Amaechi, I challenged these enemies of the state now masquer­ading as conspirators like in the case of Williams Shakespeare’s Macbeth to prove further the veracity of allegation by publish­ing a Certified True Copy of the documents being re­ferred to.”

He wondered why Wike failed to publish the docu­ments relating to the al­leged corruption as he said. “Wike’s inability to make good his boost to pub­lish the memo in today’s (Thursday) dailies under­scores the fact that his vi­tuperations are couched in tissues of lies and should hide his face in shame.

“How can a man who aspires to the coveted of­fice of Governor concocts and peddles lies of such magnitudes? This goes to realm of moral depravity, Shame!