Rivers govt debunks allegation
… As PDP picks woman deputy governorship
candidate
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
Former Minister of State for Education and Rivers
State governorship flag bearer of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Nyesom Wike, has
accused Governor Chibuike Amaechi of spending
a whopping N30 billion on General Muhammadu
Buhari campaign to be All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential candidate.
Besides, he said Amaechi was deceived by the
leadership of the APC to spend the state fund on
Buhari, in the hope that he would be chosen as the
vice presidential candidate.
He attributed the alleged non-payment of salaries
of civil servants in the state to the funding of the
party by the governor.
Wike stated this yesterday at a “thank-you” visit
to the people of Ikwerre held in Omagwa, Ikwerre
Local Government Area of the state.
He said: “Do you know why workers’ salaries have
not been paid? Amaechi spent N30 billion in
funding the presidential campaign of the APC.
They allowed him to spend the money and later,
they called him mugu.
“They said we would not make this ‘boy’ who
does not respect the president (Jonathan) the
vice president. We should know that our future is
in the PDP and not the APC.”
But, the state government, through the
Commissioner for Information and
Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, has
debunked the allegation of Amaechi funding
Buhari.
She described the claim as baseless and false,
saying Wike should provide proof to back his
statement.
Semenitari stated: “It is unbelievable that a man
who wants to be the governor of this state can
make such an unbelievable statement without any
proof.
“We challenge him (Wike) to show proof that
Governor Amaechi spent N30 billion to fund APC
campaign.
“There are some things that are unbelievable. With
what President Jonathan is giving us, N30 billion
is three months allocation. Is that what he (Wike)
is saying that we used for primary? Rivers State
Government will not dignify such unintelligent talk
with responses. We will not respond to
unintelligent talk; we will not react to silly
conjecturing.”
Wike, while expressing gratitude to Ikwerre people
for endorsing him to run for the gubernatorial slot,
disclosed that the PDP had chosen a woman to
be his running mate, adding that she would be
unveiled on Tuesday. He urged Ikwerre people to
vote for President Goodluck Jonathan, saying APC
was not the hope of Nigerians.
He said: “We are getting women involved in
decision making of the state. The campaign is
now for women to take to the next level. We have
gone beyond the stage of just sharing wrapper to
women as empowerment. This is a new era in
Rivers State. The fate of Rivers people does not
lie in the opposition APC. We are for the PDP all
the way”
The governorship flag bearer stated that the
legacies Governor Amaechi-led government had
bequeathed to Rivers people were closure of the
judiciary, House of Assembly, monorail and the
N50 billion Karibi-Whyte Hospital.
Wike promised the people that, if voted as
governor in 2015, he would review the economic
value of their lands acquired by the state
government for the Greater Port Harcourt City
(GPH) project.
He urged the people to remain vigilant, alleging
that APC was sewing fake police uniforms in an
attempt to rig the 2015 elections. Wike charged
the people to resist any attempt to compromise
the electoral process by the APC.
A PDP chieftain in Ikwerre Local Government Area,
Ernest Wosu, regretted that Amaechi failed the
people, hence the decision to support a politician
with a pedigree.
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