Former Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has
been vindicated in the corruption allegation levelled against him by his
successor, Chief Nyesom Wike, the State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) said on Sunday.
Rivers APC noted in a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu
Ikanya, that the allegations, which it dismissed as spurious, have been
successfully refuted by Amaechi through past Rivers State Government
functionaries who served under him.
“Immediate past Secretary to the Rivers State Government, George Feyi, and
the Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside, in a letter to
President Muhammadu Buhari did not only dismiss the allegations as a
figment of the imagination of Wike and his cohorts but also provided
concrete proof that Amaechi ran the affairs of Rivers State using
transparent financial procedures that cannot be faulted by any
well-meaning person or organisation,” Rivers APC said in the statement
issued in the State Capital, Port Harcourt.
“As Messrs Feyi and Peterside made clear in their letter to President
Buhari, these fabricated allegations against Amaechi, sponsored by Chief
Wike and spread through the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) and such amorphous groups as The Integrity Group are borne out of
malice, with the sole aim to malign the integrity of Amaechi and his
administration so as to poison President Buhari’s mind and discourage him
from appointing Amaechi into his cabinet,” Rivers APC said.
The party said that with the refutation of the satanic allegations by
Messrs Feyi and Peterside, it is now very clear to both President Buhari
and Nigerians that Amaechi is just one of our few leaders that ran a
corruption-free and transparent administration during his tenure as the
Governor of Rivers State.
“Thus, Chief Wike has failed woefully in his desperate bid to tarnish the
good image of Amaechi. Surely, President Buhari cannot be deceived by the
antics of Wike and his cohorts seeking to stop him from making Amaechi
part of his administration in recognition of his well-known managerial
acumen and the role he played as Director General of the Muhammadu Buhari
Presidential Campaign Organisation in mobilising Nigerians to cast their
ballots for the APC Presidential Candidate during the March 28
presidential polls,” Rivers APC said.