Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has described the 2016 budget of the Rivers state government as fraud aimed at enriching Governor Nyesom Wike.
The APC in a statement signed by state chairman, Davies Ibiyamu Ikanya, alleged that Wike set-aside the sum of fifteen billion naira as security vote for the year.
Ikeanya who noted that the 2016 budget of Rivers state should be a public document wondered why it was being concealed from the public.
APC said it will carefully and critically scrutinize the budget in great detail and make public areas of concern in the interest of Rivers people
The statement reads, “This revelation is coming to light as information now reveals that the governor allocated a whopping N15 billion to himself as security vote in the 2016 state budget.
“The curiosity of the APC was aroused when months after the budget was passed, it was tightly kept out of the reach or sight of Rivers people. The APC had to repeatedly make public its observation that Gov. Nyesom Wike deliberately concealed the details of the 2016 budget that was passed by the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) for dubious reasons until a few days ago when a concerned former member of the RSHA leaked the budget details to the APC.”
APC said that prior to now, “the party has repeatedly warned that all the showboating of hard work Gov. Nyesom Wike is selling to gullible Rivers people is mere dummy and facade to steal the people blind while pretending to be working for their interest. We would have been surprised if the situation was different given the known antecedents of Chief Nyesom Wike as Obio/Akpor Council Chairman, Chief of Staff to former Gov. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and as Minister for Education.
“It is now obvious why Nyesom Wike defied every known principle and decency in his quest for power. He ignored his predecessor’s desire to rotate power to another Senatorial Zone; Wike clobbered, intimidated, beat and maimed his own PDP members to forcefully take the party’s governorship ticket for himself; he traded off good conscience and got the buy-in of criminals to kill and maim the people and in exchange gave them tickets to the RSHA all in his bid to become governor of Rivers State. Even when his sham election was annulled, Wike did every unthinkable and unmentionable thing under the sun to get victory at the Supreme Court.
“It is pertinent to remind Rivers people that under Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as governor of Rivers State, the highest annual security vote was N3b spread through the year or N250m per month. Now, Gov. Wike has decided to award himself N15b annual or N1.25b monthly security vote. We believe that the difference is very obvious to the people at this point. In the months and years to come, Rivers people will realise that they have not only ended up in a ONE CHANCE BUS but are indeed in a ONE CHANCE BUS LADEN WITH IEDs and heading for a crash.”
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