Alleged missing N53B: Wike, Justice Omereji talking rubbish – Rivers APC
….Insists Amaechi’s hands are clean
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has dismissed as
arrant nonsense the indictment of former Governor Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi by his estranged successor, Chief Nyesom Wike, and the
kangaroo panel he set up to probe his immediate past predecessor.
The party outrightly dismissed the claim of the panel’s chairman,
Justice George Omeriji, who reportedly said that Amaechi would have to
account for a purportedly missing N53 billion.
“This claim of a purportedly missing N53 billion under Amaechi’s watch
is pure rubbish and a mere rubber-stamping of the well known position
of Chief Wike, who indicted Amaechi even before the Justice Omereji
Commission of Inquiry started sitting. This, of course, is an exercise
in futility. As we have always maintained, Amaechi’s hands are
spotlessly clean as he conducted the affairs of state in a transparent
manner throughout his eight years in office as Rivers State Governor
from 2007 to May 2015,” Rivers APC said in a statement issued on
Thursday in Port Harcourt by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu
Ikanya.
The party noted that the allegedly missing money is from the Rivers
State Reserve Fund, adding that the withdrawals were duly approved by
the State House of Assembly and the expenditure duly captured in the
State Budget and accounted for.
“How on earth can someone in his right senses describe funds withdrawn
with the approval of the legislature and spent as prescribed by the
State Budget to be missing? Wike in his desperation to stop Amaechi’s
appointment as a minister has resorted to dancing naked in the market
place. We know that the next thing he will do is to hurriedly issue a
White Paper on the issue in the hope of stopping Amaechi’s
confirmation as a minister by the Senate but his plan has already
failed, just as he failed in his devious plot to stop Amaechi’s
nomination in the first place,” the party said.
It dismissed Wike as a drowning man who is desperate to drag Amaechi
down with him, as he is fully aware that his days as governor are
numbered as the stolen mandate would soon be retrieved by the rightful
owner, Dr. Dakuku Peterside of APC.
The party appealed to Nigerians, especially President Buhari and the
Distinguished National Assembly members to discountenance Wike and
Omereji’s theatrics, noting that it was due to their obvious bias that
neither Amaechi nor APC bothered to either recognise or have anything
to do with the kangaroo panel.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA on Media and Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers State
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