Rivers State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Nyesom Wike, has denied the allegation that he embezzled over N3.5 billion in state funds.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi had accused Wike of stealing the money, which he said was given to the former minister of education to execute some projects in the state.
Amaechi said Wike received the money but failed to do the job which included the construction of a set of classroom blocks and a road in Rivers State.
Speaking through his media aide, Simeon Nwakaudu, Wike said the allegation was false and aimed at taking attention away from the governor’s “failure” to deliver democracy dividends to the people of Rivers.
Wike insisted that Amaechi never awarded any contract to him, daring the governor to show proofs of same to the public and relevant law enforcement agencies.
Wike noted that the nature of the allegation has exposed the rot in the management of the state resources and proved that Amaechi and his associates had squandered Rivers monies through frivolous payments.
“How can a state governor claim that he paid N3.5billion upfront for contracts yet to be executed?” Nwakudu asked.
“By now, he ought to have realized that the same allegations he peddled did not stop him from losing the state PDP machinery, before he fled into political exile.”
He alleged that Amaechi spent N19billion on the campaign of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, in the hopes of being appointed running mate.
The spokesman said Amaechi was made the director general of the Buhari Campaign Organization, to compensate him for losing out of the vice presidential candidacy and to further waste Rivers State Government resources in a project that is bound to fail.
Continuing, Wike described Amaechi as a failed governor whose only legacy is propaganda, saying “He (Amadchi) has nothing to show for the trillions of naira that have accrued to Rivers State under his supervision, other than engage in political mind games that have been of no benefit to the state.”
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