Former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, has reacted to the allegation by Chidi Wihioka that the denied Rivers people the opportunity to have Dangote Refinery situated in the state.
Amaechi told his ally, and erstwhile National Publicity
Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party, nPDP, Eze Chukwuemeka
Eze, that Dangote had already started the construction of his refinery in Lagos
State when he visited Port Harcourt.
Amaechi said the purpose of Dangote’s visit was to ask for a
land to build a gas plant and not a refinery as Wihioka portrayed.
The ex governor’s response came as concerned citizens
expressed concern over his silence to the accusation made on national
television by Wihioka.
Wihioka, a former federal lawmaker, had said that Amaechi
denied Rivers State the opportunity of hosting Dangote Refinery because of the
former Governor’s personal demand to the businessman before approving a land
for the mega project.
The former lawmaker, who represented Ikwerre/Emohua
Constituency in the House of Representatives, said Dangote left and never returned
because of Amaechi’s personal demands.
Some Rivers elders such as Chief Bob Wali, had urged Amaechi
to clear the air on the allegation by Wihioka, and in reaction through a text
to Eze, Amaechi said, he willingly obliged Dangote by showing him a befitting
place opposite the Onne Seaport for his gas plant construction.
According to him, sadly, Dangote never returned to build the
gas plant after he gave him land and he[Amaechi] never asked for anything from
the businessman.
“I never asked Dangote for anything. I gave him land
opposite the Onne seaport. He had already commenced construction of the
refinery in Lagos but wanted land for a gas plant.”
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