The
former Governor of Rivers State who is now the Minister of
Transportation, has been accused of squandering N2 trillion as a
Governor in the state.
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
The Governor of Rivers state, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has again
accused the former Governor of the state, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who is
now the Minister of Transportation, of looting the state’s treasury to
the tune of N2 trillion as a governor.
According to The Whistler,
Wike made the new claim on Sunday, during the 10th anniversary
thanksgiving service of the Omega Power Ministry in Port Harcourt.
Wike said Amaechi’s administration received approximately N20
billion monthly (about two trillion naira) at the time, but failed to
meet the expectations of the people of Rivers.
“For eight years, at a time that the state got approximately
N20billion monthly, that administration failed to develop critical
infrastructure,” he stated.
In February, Wike had alleged that his predecessor and currently
Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi spent a whopping $150million
belonging to the state to finance the All Progressives Congress (APC)
campaign in the 2015 elections.
But in a swift reply while speaking through his Media Office, the
Transportation Minister wondered how such a huge amount of money could
disappear without a paper trail.
A statement signed by Amaechi to this effect noted: “Pray,
Governor Wike, who collected the $150m on behalf of APC? From which
Rivers State Government account(s) was the $150m taken? How was the
$150m taken and given to APC? Was it by wired transfer from Rivers State
Government account(s) to APC account(s)?
“Sadly again, Wike picked a church, a sacred temple of God to
tell his new imaginary tale, another bogus, fallacious concoction. When
Amaechi challenged the Wike administration and its agents to use any
legal process or procedure to prove their jaundiced, deceitful
allegations against him and his administration, they have rather elected
to do their own corruption probe, trial and conviction in the media;
and now, even inside our solemn places of worship (churches)."
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