RIVERS State Governor, Mr. Rotimi
Amaechi, has described the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom
Wike, as “too small and insignificant to discuss.”
Wike, who is Amaechi’s former Chief of Staff, has been involved in a long drawn political battle with the governor.
Amaechi said this while speaking on
Saturday during a church service to mark the 60th birthday of the former
President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief O.C.J. Okocha, at the
Emmanuel Anglican Church in Port Harcourt.
The governor, who was reacting to the
questions directed at him by the officiating priest, the Bishop of
Anglican Communion, Niger Delta Diocese, Archbishop Ignatius Kattey,
expressed regret that most of those that had betrayed him were from his
Ikwerre ethnic group.
Amaechi recalled how he nominated some
of his kinsmen, including Wike and the former Deputy Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Chief Austin Okpara, into political positions,
adding that they turned around to betray him.
The governor said, “This will be the
first time I will be talking about my former Chief of Staff in public.
My former Chief of Staff is too small for me to talk about. I don’t want
to discuss him and I have never done that before. Today will be my
first and last day.
“There are men with character and there
are men without character. I don’t believe that money can solve all
problems and I don’t worship money.
“My greatest fear is that where am I
going after here on earth? Let me also tell you that I have be
en
betrayed several times in politics and majority of those who betrayed me
are from my Ikwerre ethnic group.
“Before I became a Speaker, can we look
back at Ikwerre history? We were crying; we wanted governor, we wanted
this and that and the last ministerial appointment was Chief Emmanuel
Aguma, a long time ago, and that was the last Ikwerre ministerial
appointment.”
The governor, however, maintained that Opara betrayed him when it was time for the former deputy speaker to support him.
“Again, you can ask Mr. President, I
submitted his name (Nyesom Wike) as minister. Where is he now? I,
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, submitted his name as minister to President
Jonathan. But where is he now? You must have character, you must be
known for something,” Amaechi insisted.
Speaking on the Nigeria Governors’ Forum
crisis, Amaechi said a credible election was held, where the governors
exercised their franchise and re-elected him as the chairman of the
forum.
He said, “There was an election. They
are not denying that there was no election. They said, before the
election, some governors had signed documents for them and they were 19
in number, and we conducted election. Eventually, the 19 governors later
changed their minds and voted for me.”
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