A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwumeka Eze, has reacted to the nine-count charge levelled on the former governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi by the Rivers State Government.
The state government, in a suit, marked PHC/1818/CR/2022 listed the governorship candidate of the APC, Tonye Cole, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside, Augustine Wokocha, Sahara Energy Resources Limited, NG Power-HpS Limited, and Cenpropsaroten Management Limited as Amaechi’s co-defendants.
Reacting to the suit, Eze, erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) in a statement on Monday, said the move was a ploy by Wike to divert public attention from the N345 billion and N20 billion he allegedly squandered on his presidential and vice-presidential bids respectively.
Eze, a supporter of Amaechi, recalled that Wike had directed his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor during the swearing-in of new commissioners, to sue Amaechi and others over alleged illegal financial dealings involving the former governor, Tonye Cole, and others over the sale of state assets.
He, however, said Wike’s move against Amaechi would end as wasted efforts, noting that former governor Peter Odili, while in office had obtained a perpetual injunction against probing the financial activities of the Rivers State Government.
“But WIKE not relenting in his vendetta against a man whom, if not for the grace of God in his life, he wouldn’t be whatever he is claiming to be politically after failing and being rejected by the stakeholders and elders in his sinister motive still went ahead to direct his Attorney General to go ahead and pursue an issue he is fully aware is like chasing a shadow,” Eze said.
The chieftain accused Wike of protecting the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Siminlayi Fubara from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He further alleged that the governor had empowered supporters of Fubara to beat up officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) when its operatives attempted to arrest the latter at the Omagwa Airport in Rivers State from Abuja.
Eze said Wike by his actions was embarrassing innocent and respectful sons of the State due to his type of politics, adding that he would be remembered as a “watershed and monumental waste in the annals of governance in Rivers State.”
