Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says he made Rotimi
Amaechi, his predecessor, governor of the state.
Wike had served as chief of staff, when Amaechi was governor
of the state.
Both men fell apart ahead of the 2015 election, with Ameachi
defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Since then, Wike and Amaechi, the minister of
transportation, have been at loggerheads.
Following the corruption allegation Wike made against his
predecessor, Amaechi had recently said he won’t descend to exchanging words
with the governor whom he described as his employee.
But in an interview with the BBC Pidgin service on Friday,
Wike said it was not possible to be an employee of Amaechi whom he made
governor.
“Amaechi and I were in the same party, and in politics,
everybody has his own ambition. He had his ambition to be governor, and at the
time, I didn’t. So, we fought and supported him to be governor,” he said.
“Now he’s in APC, and you don’t expect me as a PDP person to
support what he does.
“I was the one God used to make Amaechi governor. I will
even give you a tape from what he said in the church; that after God, I’m next.
But when he was talking the other day, saying I was his staff, his employee, I
said no problem.
“We all sat to make you governor, and I was the one who
championed it. How do you call someone who made you governor an employee? When
he became governor, he asked me; how are we going to run this government, and
he offered me to be commissioner of finance, but I said no, let me be in the
chief of staff office.
“That time I made him governor, I had power to choose.
People know in this state.
“With his APC, did they even score 25 percent here during
the 2015 and 2019 elections? His staff stopped him from winning Rivers for his
presidential candidate? Stopped him from winning the governorship election for
his candidate? Not even a senatorial seat?
“Well, we have passed that. He said over his dead body will
I be governor, now I am looking for that dead body. I have been governor for
eight years now. In 2015 when I won, they said PDP was in power, but I also won
again in 2019 when APC was in power.”
Wike again accused his predecessor of mismanaging the state
funds when he was governor.
He alleged that Ameachi sold the state’s gas turbine for
$308,000 and left his government with $208,000.
“See the monorail, just 1.5 kilometre, they said they spent
N54 billion. I am not saying anybody is corrupt, but just see all these monies
we have mentioned,” he said.
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