It appears
the fight between former Rivers state governor now Minister of Transport,
Rotimi Amaechi, and his successor, Nyesom Wike, is not abating any time soon.
In a
fresh statement released by his media aide, Isreal Ibeleme, Amaechi is
accusing Wike of forging documents that would be used against him in court. He
described Wike as a lying, reckless, irresponsible and brutal forger that has
become the laughing stock of his peers and the nation. Read his statement below
Rivers State
governor Nyesom Wike has continued to twist, falsify and forge fresh documents
that he intends to use against the immediate past governor of the state and now
Minister of Transportation Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Wike wants
to use the elaborately distorted and most times outrightly but carefully forged
documents to persecute and prosecute his erstwhile benefactor in court. In the
past couple of days, Wike has been telling anyone who cares to listen, bragging
that he will certainly get a conviction, a judgement against Amaechi in the law
courts on spurious charges of corruption using his forged documents because he
(Wike) is in control of the judiciary at the state and national level.
For the
avoidance of doubt, we wish to state that Wike has been boasting that he has
the judges in the Rivers State judiciary in his pocket, that he’s in full
control and that the State judiciary would always give him any judgement he
wants against Amaechi. Furthermore, Wike is bragging that the Chief Justice of
Nigeria (CJN) is his ‘main man’, that would readily and easily assist him get
any judgement he wants against Amaechi at the apex court, using his contorted
documents. Wike is also telling anyone who cares to listen that the Supreme
Court (Justices) and judges generally are not happy with Amaechi and so they
would easily convict him with any forged document he presents in court. Power
drunk Wike is using the recent visit of the CJN to Rivers State as his bragging
right to prove his ‘extreme’ closeness to the CJN.
Nigerians
would recall that only a few days back, Livingstone Wechie, the young man Wike
used to accuse Amaechi of corruption and write false and frivolous petitions to
the National Assembly, EFCC etc, confessed in a live television programme and
in a statement he also circulated to the media, that all the documents he used
to wrongfully portray Amaechi as corrupt when he governed Rivers State, were
phonies, forged documents given to him by Wike’s Rivers State Government House.
Wechie also admitted, like we have always said, that the forged documents were
used as the template and basis for the Justice Omereji led Judicial Commission
of Inquiry, a panel Wike set up early in his administration to witch-hunt,
malign, vilify and persecute Amaechi.
Sadly, this
is the kind of administration that presides over the affairs of Rivers people.
An administration that embarks on wholesale forgery and distortion of
government documents and then retails it out to his minions, the media and now
the judiciary in a shameful and futile bid to defame and destroy Amaechi.
Brazenly, without any scruples, Governor Wike runs an administration that
manufactures and concocts documents to indict Amaechi of corruption. Yes, this
is the kind of character, a low-level conman that is at the helm of affairs in
Rivers State.
Since he
became governor, Wike’s sole agenda has been to attack and vilify Rotimi
Amaechi, no matter how ridiculous and silly he sounds. Everyday in Rivers
State, there is one frivolous, false story of what Amaechi did or didn’t do.
Same pattern, the same blatant lies using distorted and forged documents, same
old concocted stories of corruption allegations against Amaechi told with
different twists.
Nigerians
will not forget in a hurry how Nyesom Wike, hurriedly called a suspicious late
night press conference to lie that the over $43million found by EFCC in a
luxury apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos and the apartment belongs to Amaechi.
Wike
shamelessly said that the money was part of what was stolen from Rivers State –
and warehoused in the Ikoyi house – by his predecessor and current Minister for
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. Not done with his concocted tales, Wike went
further to threaten the President Mohammadu Buhari administration with fire and
brimstone if the money is not returned to him (Wike). He gave the Federal
Government a seven-day ultimatum to return the money; otherwise, he would
institute the mother of all legal actions against the Buhari government to
recover the money.
That’s the
typical Wike, a lying, reckless, irresponsible and brutal forger that has
become the laughing stock of his peers and the nation.
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