Don’t Appoint Amaechi As Minister – Nyesom Wike Urges Buhari…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged President Muhammad Buhari not to appoint his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi as minister if he wants his fight against corruption to be looked upon with credibility.
President Buhari revealed last week in an article published in the Washington Post that he would announce members of his cabinet in September. However, Amaechi was among the 33-man delegation that accompanied the President to last week’s visit to the United States.
According to a statement on Sunday, signed by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, Wike who described Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign as ‘selective’ and ‘drawing a cocktail of reaction’, said it would be ‘dismissed as laughable’ if Amaechi makes the ministerial list. Wike claimed Amaechi was the most corrupt government official and asked the president to probe the ex-governor to lend credibility to his fight against corruption.
“If Buhari is sincere in his fight against corruption, let him probe the Amaechi’s government and he will discover that there cannot be a government official that is more corrupt than Amaechi,” he said.
Speaking further, the Governor blamed Amaechi for Rivers State’s fiscal woes saying his policies were reckless and dictatorial: “From the genesis to revelation of his government, Amaechi’s fiscal recklessness and dictatorial policies and approaches are responsible for the financial woes of the state that should ordinarily be buoyant.”
Wike said: “A man like Amaechi must not be allowed to flaunt the fruits of his crime with impunity. He has to account for the monthly allocations he received in 8 years and the IGRs for the same period. He spirited so much out of the system with little or nothing to show for it. The appointment of Amaechi by Buhari will be an endorsement of corruption by Buhari,” he warned, further adding that if Mr. Amaechi was blameless, he wouldn’t be seeking protection from investigation.”
“If there are no skeletons in his cupboard, why try to frustrate the Hon Justice Omereji’s commission of inquiry? This obviates the need for further evidence that his hands are dirty. After all, he started and ended his reign with the late Justice Kayode Esho’s panel and the Prof Odinkalu’s commission of inquiry respectively -not to talk of that headed by Justice B A Georgewill. ‘Do unto others, what you want others to do unto you’, our Lord Jesus admonished my brother Knight, Amaechi.”
Wike added that it is a laughable move for Amaechi, who he claimed orchestrated the closure of courts in the state during his tenure, to seek protection from the same judiciary he incapacitated.
“It is ironical that the same man who sealed the judiciary for close to two years and turned lawyers into taxi drivers and artisans will now have the gumption to approach the same courts he desecrated for justice,” the Governor stated.
President Buhari revealed last week in an article published in the Washington Post that he would announce members of his cabinet in September. However, Amaechi was among the 33-man delegation that accompanied the President to last week’s visit to the United States.
According to a statement on Sunday, signed by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, Wike who described Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign as ‘selective’ and ‘drawing a cocktail of reaction’, said it would be ‘dismissed as laughable’ if Amaechi makes the ministerial list. Wike claimed Amaechi was the most corrupt government official and asked the president to probe the ex-governor to lend credibility to his fight against corruption.
“If Buhari is sincere in his fight against corruption, let him probe the Amaechi’s government and he will discover that there cannot be a government official that is more corrupt than Amaechi,” he said.
Speaking further, the Governor blamed Amaechi for Rivers State’s fiscal woes saying his policies were reckless and dictatorial: “From the genesis to revelation of his government, Amaechi’s fiscal recklessness and dictatorial policies and approaches are responsible for the financial woes of the state that should ordinarily be buoyant.”
Wike said: “A man like Amaechi must not be allowed to flaunt the fruits of his crime with impunity. He has to account for the monthly allocations he received in 8 years and the IGRs for the same period. He spirited so much out of the system with little or nothing to show for it. The appointment of Amaechi by Buhari will be an endorsement of corruption by Buhari,” he warned, further adding that if Mr. Amaechi was blameless, he wouldn’t be seeking protection from investigation.”
“If there are no skeletons in his cupboard, why try to frustrate the Hon Justice Omereji’s commission of inquiry? This obviates the need for further evidence that his hands are dirty. After all, he started and ended his reign with the late Justice Kayode Esho’s panel and the Prof Odinkalu’s commission of inquiry respectively -not to talk of that headed by Justice B A Georgewill. ‘Do unto others, what you want others to do unto you’, our Lord Jesus admonished my brother Knight, Amaechi.”
Wike added that it is a laughable move for Amaechi, who he claimed orchestrated the closure of courts in the state during his tenure, to seek protection from the same judiciary he incapacitated.
“It is ironical that the same man who sealed the judiciary for close to two years and turned lawyers into taxi drivers and artisans will now have the gumption to approach the same courts he desecrated for justice,” the Governor stated.
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