Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has described Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as the most corrupt Governor in Nigeria.
According to him, between January and November 2014, Amaechi squandered over N298billion that accrued to the state from the Federation Accounts and loans obtained from various commercial banks.
Wike, who spoke at the PDP governorship campaign rally in Port Harcourt, further alleged that between December 2014 and January 2015, the governor, through the Government House and the Office of the Secretary to the Rivers State Government expended N11 billion, believed to have been channelled into the campaign machinery of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) General Muhammadu Buhari.
He said that the massive corrupt expenditure of the over N300billion just for 2014 and the first month of 2015 excludes the internally generated revenue of Rivers State, which has been pegged at several billions of naira monthly.
Giving a breakdown of the alleged mass corrupt practices by Amaechi, the PDP governorship hopeful stated that between January and November 2014, the Amaechi administration received N185billion from the Federation Account.
Wike further stated that within the same period under review, the administration took loans from banks totalling over N112billion.
He said, “These are facts duly obtained from government sources. They are not newspaper reports. They are authenticated facts of revenue received by the outgoing government of Rotimi Amaechi. Before the people of Nigeria is the most corrupt administration ever seen in this state. An administration that has shortchanged our people.
“From the details of expenditure at our disposal, these funds have been used to sponsor opposition activities and the campaigns of General Muhammadu Buhari. Most of the money were channelled to non-existent or non functional projects, with the funds pocketed by the outgoing governor.
“For instance, Amaechi paid N500 million for a non existent new Bridge in Abonnema. He paid N2 billion for the Trans-Kalabari road where nothing has been done by his administration. For the Port Harcourt Centenary celebration, Amaechi expended almost N1 billion and he released N1.7billion for the production of international passports.”
Also speaking at the rally, deputy national chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, alleged that Amaechi had procured Army, Naval and Police uniforms to be distributed to his political thugs from the state and others imported from the north to ensure that they rigged the election if it were held on February 14, 2015.
Secondus said the same procurement of uniforms was carried out by APC governors, adding that the plan of the APC was to plunge the nation into a needless crisis
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