The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom
Wike, has declared that people of the state overwhelmingly voted for him during
the 2019 governorship election because of his outstanding performance and
project delivery.
In a response to an allegation
made by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi during his
appearance on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, Governor Wike said
that the former Rivers State Governor failed in his quest to truncate his
second term because Rivers people were happy with his work.
He said he wouldn’t have
responded to the falsehood being peddled by the Minister of Transportation, but
he owes the public the duty to set the record straight.
He said: “It is unfortunate. I
extended the Olive Branch and I meant every word of it. It was on that basis
that the State Attorney General filed a nolle prosequi to withdraw the charge
against Flag Amachree.
“If I did not do well in my first
term, PDP wouldn’t have given me the party’s flag to fly. In 2015, the same man
vowed that over his dead body would I emerge victorious.
“I have done well for my people.
It is for the people of Rivers State to decide. It is not the in the place of
Amaechi to decide.
“We have over 6million people and
over 3million registered voters. Therefore, Amaechi cannot say I cannot go for
a second term. He has only one vote.
“In the past, he said an Ikwerre
man cannot succeed another Ikwerre man. Today, he is saying his grouse is that
I cannot go for a second term. At every step, he has one story or the other”.
Governor Wike said contrary to
the story that Amaechi peddled whilst he was on Channels Television, kidnapping
raged during his tenure. He said it was so bad that the State Chairman of
Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission under Amaechi was kidnapped.
The Governor noted that despite
the National High-Rate of insecurity, Rivers State is relatively peaceful, with
very high ratings.
“Our internally Generated Revenue
has improved due to the peace and security of the state”.
Governor Wike said that the
political misfortune that befell the APC during the last general elections in
Rivers State was principally due to the impunity of Amaechi .
He said: “It is because of this
impunity that his party was not on the ballot. Because of this impunity he has
denied so many people their political future “.
He said that the plots by Amaechi
to manipulate the Tribunal will fail like other previous plots. The Governor
noted that Amaechi’s boast that he appointed the members of the tribunal and
they would work for him remains one of his empty boasts.
Governor Wike said that Amaechi’s
plot to use the police to illegally certify fake results as he did for Rivers
East Senatorial District during the rerun elections tribunal would fail.
“The game he played in Rivers East
of using the police to certify fake results will not work. During the rerun
Police certified fake results. That game will not work again. We have gone
beyond that. We are waiting for the police to certify fake results for Amaechi
“.
He stated that there was no way
that the defeated AAC Governorship Candidate, Engr Awara would have been
coasting to victory when he neither campaigned or printed posters.
He said: “Awara ran for the PDP
councillorship in 2018 and lost. For this election, he did not Campaign and
never printed posters.
“Look at that kind of impunity.
He brought a man that the people of Rivers State never knew three days to the
election.
“The AAC had no House of Assembly
Candidates, they had no House of Representatives candidates and no senate
candidates for the elections. There is no way that such a party would have been
coasting to victory “.
He added that the AAC
Governorship Candidate could not have been coasting to victory and still
approach the Federal High Court for the cancellation of the Governorship
Election Results.
On the allegation that the INEC
Chairman , Professor Mahmood Yakubu influenced the suspension of the Collation
process because he worked under him at the Federal Ministry of Education, the
Rivers State Governor said that the position of Amaechi was baseless. He said
that at the Ministry of Education, he superintended basic Education, while the
INEC Chairman served as TETFUND Executive Secretary under the Minister of
Education. He said that the INEC Chairman was appointed by the APC Federal
Government and since his appointment, there has been no links
Governor Wike said despite the
evil machinations of the Minister of Transportation, he was unable to deliver
25 percent of votes for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and 2019
“In 2015, as a sitting Governor,
he failed to deliver 25percent of votes for President Buhari. He claimed that
Jonathan helped us. In 2019, with all the security agencies, he still couldn’t
deliver 25percent for President Buhari.
“He sang war songs, but couldn’t
deliver 25 percent of votes for the President “, he said.
On the incident at Obio/Akpor LGA
Secretariat, Governor Wike said that the GOC of the 6 Division of the Nigerian
Army, Major General Jamil Sarhem sent soldiers to invade the Collation Centre
and cart away results .
“I went there to stop the Army
from carting away results from my Local Government Area “, he said.
Governor Wike said that the
illegal activities of the Nigerian Army all through the Governorship Election
were well documented by the media and the International community.
He said that the videos of the
Army invading the Rivers State Governorship Election Collation Centre has since
gone viral.
He said that even the Rivers
State Commander of F-SARs has since written him a congratulatory letter on his
well deserved victory.
He said that his administration
continues to fund all security agencies in the state, including providing
needed logistics. He said that the Israelis that Amaechi introduced were only
used to siphon State resources .
He wondered why Amaechi finds
Pleasure in de-marketing Rivers State, when the State made him Speaker,
Governor and Minister of the Federal Republic.
Governor Wike said after four
years as a Minister, Amaechi cannot boast of attracting a single project to
Rivers State. He noted that as Minister of State for Education, he attracted
several projects to the state.
He denied attempting to bribe the
GOC, saying that he has never met him at any point. He said by Amaechi’s logic,
it means that the Minister bribed the GOC 6 Division to subvert the Electoral
Process.
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