"Why I Sacked Nyesom Wike As My Chief Of Staff" - Amaechi
"I told Rivers people, that Nyesom Wike will do nothing as Governor, he's here to steal money, he was my Chief of Staff. The reason I removed him as Chief of Staff was stealing. It was Chima that influence me to send his name to Goodluck Jonathan to appoint him as Minister. It was Chima, my commissioner of Commerce, who begged that Nyesom Wike was dying of taking alcohol, he was taking so much Whiskey and we needed to save him. Chima asked me to make him a Secretary to the government and I said, "God forbid." But I removed him because of that corruption, that was the reason why I removed him."
"I told Rivers people, that Nyesom Wike will do nothing as Governor, he's here to steal money, he was my Chief of Staff. The reason I removed him as Chief of Staff was stealing. It was Chima that influence me to send his name to Goodluck Jonathan to appoint him as Minister. It was Chima, my commissioner of Commerce, who begged that Nyesom Wike was dying of taking alcohol, he was taking so much Whiskey and we needed to save him. Chima asked me to make him a Secretary to the government and I said, "God forbid." But I removed him because of that corruption, that was the reason why I removed him."
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The Rivers State Government, Saturday, accused a former governor of the State and transport minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of promoting anarchy in the State.
The government made the allegation in a press statement by Dr. Austin Tam-George, Commissioner for Information and Communication in the State.
The statement read in full:
“The Rivers State Government condemns as shameless and irresponsible the remarks made by the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, in a television programme on African Independent Television (AIT) in Abuja, and on Rhythm FM in Port Harcourt.
Mr Amaechi accused the state government and the Rivers State Police Command of abetting and supporting criminals, and blamed both for the recent killings in some areas in Rivers State.
Throughout his rambling interviews during which he appeared mostly confused and inebriated, Mr Amaechi provided no shred of evidence to support his bizarre allegations.
Governor Nyesom Wike has given unprecedented financial and logistical support to the police and other security agencies in the state since he assumed office eight months ago.
Within two months in office, Governor Wike released over sixty security-fitted vehicles to the police in the state. He also released over 30 vehicles to the joint security forces.
Investigations by the Rivers State police command have shown again and again, that the killings witnessed in some areas of the state were the result of retributive attacks launched by rival cult gangs battling for supremacy.
And in each case, the Rivers State Police Command working with the State Government, has made arrests, and obtained vital intelligence from gang leaders in custody. There is a prosecutorial process already underway for those implicated in these criminal activities.
For example:
1. Mr. ANTHONY UGOH has been arrested, and is in police custody for the killing of MR FRANK OBI and two others in OMOKU, Rivers State.
2. Mr NDUBUISI TOCHI is in custody for the killing OFINJITE AMACHREE in Buguma
3. Mr. LUKE OKIMEBI is in custody for the killing of Godstime Iforuiyala in Buguma.
This is only a short list out of many other culprits awaiting prosecution for their crimes in the state.
Mr Rotimi Amaechi’s open invitation to the military to invade homes and communities in Rivers State therefore has nothing to do with crime and criminality in the state.
It is a devilish ploy by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to attempt to use the military to rig the forthcoming legislative polls in favour of the party. But the military recognize that their role is to protect democracy, not to undermine it.
We call on President Mohammadu Buhari to call Mr Rotimi Amaechi to order, because he seems desperate to plunge Rivers State into anarchy.
We call on the people of Rivers State to be vigilant and to stoutly resist any attempt by Rotimi Amaechi and the APC to rig the legislative polls on the 19th of March 2016.
Mr Amaechi should have used the opportunity of the live interviews to give account of his disastrous and visionless administration. Anyone remotely interested in the link between politics and psychiatric disorder may have to study the Amaechi administration in Rivers State.
Despite receiving over three trillion Naira in revenue in eight years, Rotimi Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in the history of Rivers State, since 1967.
Amaechi awarded school contracts worth billions of Naira to his cronies without following due process, He elevated the mismanagement of public funds as the directive policy of his government. Amaechi ran a government mainly by fiction, using 3D images to create visual wonder, and to deceive the people.
Today, the abandoned monorail project over which Amaechi spent sixty billion naira stands out in its mammoth ugliness along Azikiwe Road, Port Harcourt. It is a headstone to the corruption and waste that characterized the Amaechi era.
But since he assumed office eight months ago, Governor Nyesom Wike has de-politicised development and reconstructed roads and other projects abandoned by Amaechi. Over 100 kilometres of roads across the state, including roads in Borikiri and Origwe where Rotimi Amaechi once lived, have been completely revamped.
What were the state of the roads in Diobu and Okaki in Borikiri during Amaechi’s tenure? Today, those roads have been totally reconstructed by the Wike government.
The school contracts and other projects with doubtful legality and value are being comprehensively reviewed by the Wike administration.
Under Nyesom Wike, forty thousand small and medium scale entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a two billion Naira Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) loan guaranteed by the Rivers State Government.
Under the Rotimi Amaechi administration, there is absolutely no record of how four billion Naira agricultural loan given by the CBN was used. No farmers benefited from a loan taken in their name.
In his interview, Mr Amaechi launched into completely unwarranted personal and childish attacks on Justice Mary Odili, President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, Barrister Nyesom Wike, and anyone that caught his fancy. But Rotimi Amaechi is a victim of contradiction. He castigates respected justices of the Supreme Court, but was a political beneficiary of a Supreme Court judgement. He claims there were no elections in Rivers in 2015, yet there are members of the APC in the Rivers State House of Assembly who won their seats from last year’s elections. How did the APC members get into the House?
It is clear from his political record and public utterances that Rotimi Amaechi is one of the most perverted outcomes of our experiment with democracy.
The wheels of justice may seem to turn slowly, but they will turn, and Rotimi Amaechi will be brought to face justice.”
AMAECHI NEEDS URGENT PSYCHIATRIC ATTENTION ---Governor Wike
*Says Amaechi is monstrously corrupt
*Amaechi will be prosecuted for corruption
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that former Governor Rotimi Amaechi is a failed governor who needs urgent psychiatric evaluation and treatment.
Governor Wike said Former Governor Amaechi is monstrously corrupt, pointing out that after his litigation on his indictment by the judicial Commission of Inquiry, his (Amaechi's) prosecution over the embezzlement of Rivers resources will take place.
Speaking at the PDP Rivers West Senatorial District Campaign rally at Ahoada on Saturday, Governor Wike said that only a man with psychiatric disorder will compare his failed eight years in office to just eight months of the new administration.
He said the former governor failed in his eight as the state chief executive. According to him, Amaechi lacks proper parental upbringing hence his desperation in the political arena.
Governor Wike said that the APC has refused to campaign for the rerun elections because they are relying on the military and security forces to rig.
"He is a psychiatric patient who was at the radio station abusing people who are old enough to be his fathers/mothers simply because his party lost at the Supreme Court.
"We will defeat Amaechi again and again. No matter the deployed to Rivers State, the PDP we will all the seats ".
The governor said that Amaechi during his radio tour confessed that the military has been handed over to him to rig elections in the state. He added that the plot would fail woefully as the Rivers people will defend their mandate.
He pointed out that Amaechi's personal friend Mr Tosin Ajayi was posted to Rivers State as DSS director with the evil objective of creating the environment of rigging.
He said : "Only yesterday, I intercepted the communication of the DSS director and the Brigade commander where they were planning on the ways of rigging the election alongside Amaechi. That plot has failed.
"Amaechi lacks sound parental upbringing. He has vindicated us when he said that he has been given the army to rig the rerun elections. I know the Chief of Army staff very well. He should not allow a psychiatric patient to use the Army to rig.
"Is Amaechi now the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces that he talks about deploying soldiers? Our people will rise up to defend their votes. They will make the needed sacrifices their votes", Governor Wike said.
He reminded the people that on May 27, 2015, Amaechi made a statement that his (Wike ) administration will be unable to pay salaries and execute projects. He said he has confounded through the execution of pro-people projects across the state, payment of salaries and pensions.
He called on the people of Rivers West Senatorial District to vote overwhelmingly for the PDP for uniformed development to be entrenched in the state.
The Governor said that development of the communities rests with his administration, pointing out that he has discharged his responsibility faithfully.
Governor Wike said no matter the time it takes Amaechi will face trial for stealing Rivers resources .
"If President Muhammadu Buhari visits Amaechi's house in Asokoro, he will never allow him to come into Presidential Villa. After the case initiated by Amaechi over his indictment, he will face justice for embezzling state funds"
Also speaking , PDP Deputy National Chairman described the former governor as a pathetic liar who mismanaged resources of the state.
He said : "Amaechi needs urgent proper psychiatric evaluation and treatment. We call on Dr Parker to treat the former governor ".
He said Amaechi's appearance on different radio stations is merely an avenue to create crisis in the state.
He said: "No amount of blackmail will pull down the administration of Governor Wike. Amaechi was a failed governor ".
The Rivers North West Senatorial District Campaign rally attracted PDP faithful from the eight local government areas of the district.
Simeon Nwakaudu,
Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media.
12th March, 2016.
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