The Minister of Transportation, Mr.
Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom
Wike, of playing politics with the lives of the people of the state.
He also accused Wike of not taking the development of the state seriously.
Amaechi, a former governor of the state, said this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
He accused Wike of “twisting,
butchering and turning the truth upside down; and in most cases telling
outright lies in his failed bid to denigrate, tarnish and rubbish his
towering image, person and laudable, landmark achievements.
He said that most troubling was Wike’s
alleged propensity, without any qualms whatsoever, to play politics with
the safety and security of the lives of Rivers people.
This, he said, was indeed most worrisome.
Amaechi said, “It is no secret that Wike plays politics with the development, welfare and well-being of Rivers people.
“But no government should play politics with the safety and security of its citizens like Wike is sadly and shamelessly doing.
“Governor Wike claimed that the brutal
political killings and murder of the All Progressives Congress members
and other hapless citizens in the state are cult-related or a result of
cult clashes.
“What cult wars is he talking about?
Since he claimed to have security reports, we challenge Wike to tell
Rivers people the cult group that Franklin Obi, the APC Ward Chairman in
Omoku, belongs to, that led to his being gruesomely beheaded and
butchered, alongside his pregnant wife and teenage son.
“Or did Franklin suddenly become a cult
member because he had the guts and courage to host a resoundingly
successful ward meeting of APC faithful in the same ward as Wike’s
Peoples Democratic Party State chairman, Felix Obuah, just a few days to
the rerun elections?”
The former governor challenged Wike to
tell Nigerians the cult groups and the cult wars that led to the
killing of the innocent youth corper, Chukwudumeibi Okonta, on the day
of the last rerun election on March 19.
“Was the youth corper a cultist or a victim of cult wars or yet another victim of politically-motivated killings in Rivers State?,” he asked.
He also said that Wike must tell Rivers
people the cult wars that led to the brutal murder of hundreds of
Rivers people since the election that made him governor was held, and
the cult groups that all those that had been murdered, belong to.
He said that Wike’s cult wars/cultists
claim was akin to insulting and spitting on the graves and memories of
all those murdered and their families.
Amaechi said, “With pity, we watched as
Wike tried to compare the political killings of the late Okonta and
Independent National Electoral Commission ad hoc staff on the rerun
election day in Rivers State to the fire accident that occurred at the
home of the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State days
after the elections of 2015.
“How pathetic! Even for Wike, this is a new low.”
On the Rivers Monorail project Amaechi
started, which Wike said that he would abandon, the former governor said
Wike needed to know that the monorail belongs to Rivers State and not
his “Amaechi’s” private monorail.
He said, “Pray, Governor Wike, which
Rivers people told you not to touch the monorail project? Is it the same
Rivers people that have consistently praised the project and see it as a
catalyst to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the
forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa?
“Or is Wike aggregating the jaundiced
views of the coterie of court-jesters that hang around him daily, as the
opinion of the entire people of the state?
“It is sad, very sad that Wike has
elected to play politics with this laudable project that was almost
completed before Amaechi left office.”
He said that Wike also described
several ongoing projects in the state when he (Amaechi) left office as
‘abandoned projects’ that the former governor claimed to have completed
or about to complete.
The former governor said Wike
specifically mentioned the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity Road that connects
the Island of Opobo to Andoni and the rest of the state.
“What a shameless lie! This project was
ongoing and was almost completed as at May 29, 2015. May we also remind
Wike that the Eagle Island- Diobu Road that he once claimed to have been
abandoned was 90 per cent completed with just the final course of coal
tar remaining as at when he succeeded Amaechi,” the former governor
added.
Source: PUNCH.
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