A member of Wike’s transition committee, now Chief Medical
Director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Prof. Henry
Ugboma, has accused the Rivers State Governor of setting an agenda to discredit
his predecessor and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
Speaking on Arise TV programme on Monday, Ugboma stated that
tarnishing Amaechi’s image was Wike’s number one agenda even before his
inauguration as governor of the state.
Ugboma said, “I can rightly tell you that the Governor of
Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has this paranoid issue against the Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. I noticed this as a member of the Peoples’
Democratic Party and that was one of the reasons I left the party.
“I was a member of the transition committee set up by Wike
immediately after the election to marshal out and put together things that will
destroy the honourable Minister of Transportation, and Governor Wike
immediately set us to task, that we must derive, contrived things that will
mess up Amaechi and destroy him politically, and make sure that he doesn’t take
up any political position in the country.”
Ugboma detailed how Wike planned to make a public spectacle
of Amaechi to deny him the chance of serving in President Buhari’s cabinet,
including the judicial panel of inquiry established to indict him using false, cooked up reports.
“They came up with plans to destroy one after another, all
the laudable projects that Amaechi did, all were setup, accusing him that he
stole so much money from even the institutions that he dealt with, but all were
lies.
He added, “A panel of inquiry was set up and the reports
that we brought out from the transition committee was sent to the Justice
Omereji panel. Remember, this Omereji later turned out to be the man who
stopped the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State from being on the ballot
in 2019.”
Also, one of Amaechi’s allies, Sen Andrew Uchendu, wondered
why Wike had made it his primary responsibility to continuously attempt to
tarnish Amaechi’s image instead of building on and sustaining the laudable
projects Amaechi put up for the state.
Reacting, the state Commissioner for Information and
Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, dismissed Ugboma’s statement, saying, “Did
Amaechi hand over to Wike? He did not hand over to the man. This was the same
man (Amaechi) that said he would see where Wike would get money to pay
salaries.
“The Judicial panel indicted him (Amaechi). He went to High
Court, he lost. He went to Appeal Court, he lost. The matter is at the Supreme
Court now.
“He (Amaechi) did not hand over. Governor Wike had to start
from the scratch. Amaechi left behind three months unpaid salaries, five months
pension arrears. So, there is nothing like Wike wanted to (discredit the former
governor).
“The man who took over reigns of governance had to look for
a way to start governance and he needed to get information through the judicial
process because not even one line of paper was given to him. It was the only
state in country where there was no hand-over in 2015.”
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