The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has denied involvement in the Killings in Rivers State.
Amaechi who spoke on Tuesday at the campaign headquarters of the All Progressive Congress, APC, also said he avoids commenting on issues in the state so it won’t seem like he is interfering in governance.
According to him: “This first violence was recorded in Abonnema; a lieutenant was standing protecting INEC staff, hired killers not even from Abonnema came and opened fire on military men and killed one.”
“What do you expect? Do you expect that they fold their hands and kill all the military men? And when they responded in self-defence, they say they don’t want soldiers. Why don’t you want soldiers in an area dominated by militants?
“Nobody has asked the governor that from the day you took over the number of killings that have taken place in Rivers state just because you want to run a second term. One man’s ambition for the second term, all Rivers people should die?” he said.
The minister also alleged that N117 billion was withdrawn in cash by the state governor, Nyesom Wike ”for no just reason”.
“The EFCC should investigate. I never went away with the kind of money Wike went away with, N117 billion. No press man complained when we found out that this man went away with N117 billion.”
Reacting to court rulings that bared his party from contesting the gubernatorial/national and state assembly elections, he said: “Rivers state is the only state that there is no candidate at all, if you are a candidate court finds you guilty for being a candidate, and they disqualify you.”
