The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom
Ezenwo Wike, has told the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi,
that the state was not the same as Lagos State.
Wike said that no one man can
dictate what happens in Rivers.
He said this while declaring that
no amount of blackmail and propaganda will alter the termination of sale of
valued state assets to Sahara Energy Limited, a company belonging to the
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state,
Tonye Dele Cole.
“No amount of blackmail will
change the situation. The courts are there for them to seek redress.
“Rivers and Lagos States are not
the same. No single man can dictate what happens in Rivers State. We have
different ethnic groups and culture”, he said.
According to Wike, the
termination of sale of valued state assets to Sahara Energy followed due
process.
The Governor called on those
aggrieved to seek redress in court.
He spoke on Boxing Day during the
2018 Ogbakor Etche December Convention at Obiri Etche, Umugwu, Okehi.
Wike added, “The Rivers State
Government was not vindictive in terminating the sale of valued state assets to
Sahara Energy Limited. One company used three subsidiaries to illegally acquire
state assets.
“If there was any vindictiveness,
it was on the part of those who used the State Government to deny Rivers people
their valued state assets.
The governor said that the Rivers
State Government resolved to implement the White Paper on the recommendations
of the Justice Omereji Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the sale
of valued state assets because there is no stay of execution stopping the
administration.
He said that the godfather of
Cole and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, lost at the High
Court and Court of Appeal when he tried to stop the implementation of the
recommendations of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry.
Governor Wike said the Minister
of Transportation and his business partner illegally bought over State assets
with a plot to install Tonye Cole for the purchase of more state assets.
“Rivers people have come to know
that only one person bought all their assets. He came and took what belongs to
the entire state. Now they want to acquire more,” he added.
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