Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
Speaking at a town hall meeting in a community on Tuesday, Minister
of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, appealed to the people of
Rivers state to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the
forthcoming rerun elections for House of Assembly, House of
Representatives and Senate, which is organized by the Independent
National Electoral Election (INEC)
The former governor who accused ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan of
imposing Nyesom Wike, governor of the state, on the people, appealed to
them to reject candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the
election to 'shame the former president.'
"We must stop Nyesom Wike and the only way we can stop him is
to vote the APC in the house of representatives, house of assembly and
senate.
"I built a secondary school and it has been taken over by
weeds. It is the punishment that former President Goodluck Jonathan and
his wife, in her bid to get money from me, did on us.
"They forced Wike on us without election. In their time, they
threw APC members into detention, but is there any PDP member in
detention now? That’s the difference between them and us.
"This is our opportunity to vote and put shame on them; we have
to put shame on three persons: the first person is the former
president, the second, is his wife and the third is Wike.
"The fourth is those who do not recognise the use of card
reader, those who first said the magnitude of violence in Rivers was too
heavy and moved the election tribunal to Abuja, but later came back to
say there was no election, we leave them to God," he said.
While commenting on the allegations of corruption against him,
Amaechi said he used the money, which Wike accused him of
misappropriating, to develop the state.
"The greatest happiness I have as the former governor of Rivers
state is that any campaign, whether it is APC or PDP, they used my
facilities," he said.
"I have watched Nyesom Wike’s campaign. If it is at a stadium
it is the stadium that I built. If it is a primary school, that is the
primary school I built. And he told me that he is looking for Rivers
state money, did I use my teeth to build those facilities?
"Before I became a governor, there was no road in Afara
community, and I gave you a road. There was no school, and I gave you a
school; there was no electricity and I gave you light. Tell Nyesom Wike
that if he is looking for the money, that is the money I used," he added.
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