The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has declared that the determination of his successor, Barr. Nyesom Wike, to probe his administration is a deliberate witch-hunt.
He alleged that Wike had gone ahead with his plan of threatening, coercing and blackmailing officials of his administration, especially civil servants, into making false and bogus statements that would make legitimate government transactions appear as corrupt practices.
Amaechi, in a statement issued by his media aide David Iyofor, called on the people of Rivers, the media and the public to be watchful and discern the fraudulent attempts by Governor Wike to discredit him and his administration.
According to him, “As I noted earlier in a previous statement, Wike is going ahead with his plan of attempting to deride and discredit me and my administration, by blackmailing and coercing key government officials including DFAs, Permanent Secretaries and others to twist and distort legitimate government transactions in his desperation to cook up, and fabricate baseless, concocted and unfounded cases of corruption against me and the administration I ran.
“Only on Tuesday, Wike tried to threaten, harass, blackmail and coerce Permanent Secretaries and Directors of Finance and Administration, DFAs, in various ministries, parastatals, agencies, among others, in the state into doing his bidding of painting Amaechi as corrupt in the administration of the state. The state bankers and some of our contractors are also not spared in his mission of tarnishing Amaechi’s reputation.
“As a matter of fact, Wike has only one agenda as he governs Rivers State: to portray me as corrupt, by whatever means, no matter how ridiculous and phoney it looks,” he said.
The former governor, who described the video and pictures of the looted and vandalized Government House that Wike has been showing said, “The images are also fraudulent, arranged and executed by Wike to enable him vote billions of naira from the state treasury to renovate and refurbish the place, while also accusing me of corruption”.
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