I’ve no interest in Amaechi’s appointment – Wike

Ahead of  today’s  release of  the much-awaited  ministerial  list, and the alleged  plot  by Governor  Nyesom  Wike and Rivers PDP   to   stop  Chibuike  Amaechi   from  making   the cabinet  list,  Wike, yesterday   insisted   that   he  had  no interest  in   Amaechi’s appointment.
Governor Wike,  who  spoke  through  his Special  Adviser  on Media and Publicity, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, described  as   spurious,  fatuous and malicious, the allegation that Governor Wike and  Rivers PDP were trying to influence members of  the National Assembly, against Amaechi’s  appointment.
The  Special Adviser, in  statement  issued  in Port Harcourt  yesterday,  and  signed by  him said:  “Gov. Wike has no cause to orchestrate a protest against the appointment of Rotimi Amaechi.  Let me reiterate for the umpteenth time, that  Gov. Wike  has no nexus  with  the appointment of Amaechi  or otherwise.  It  is the right of  an appointor  to appoint anybody of his choice, provided such appointment is in sync with the relevant laws.”
“The appointment of Amaechi will definitely have no bearing on the governance of Rivers State. There are crucial issues the governor is more concerned with,  which are issues of the state and not trifles like the appointment of Amaechi.  It is apparent that the APC in Rivers State has exhausted its basket of lies and barren propaganda,  but still wants to be heard or noticed, despite its waned popularity in the state.”
According to the spokesman, Wike’s concern now is to clear what  he called, “the rubbish” allegedly  left  behind  by  Amaechi  in  his eight years of maladministration.
“Therefore, if the APC is dispensing such unfounded falsehood, as a stratagem, it has failed. Or, is the APC distraught that Amaechi might not scale through the screening because of his sleazy antecedents?  If that is the problem, it  should  think  of how to sort it out and not spread falsehood to gain sympathy.  Gov  Wike is not interested in Amaechi’s matter,”  the statement concluded.