{"id":48010,"date":"2016-03-30T11:57:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48010"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:57:23","slug":"monorail-wike-stop-lying-people-says-amaechi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/monorail-wike-stop-lying-people-says-amaechi\/","title":{"rendered":"Monorail: Wike should stop lying to the people says Amaechi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has described Governor Nyesom Wike \u00a0as a liar and a man not fit to be Rivers Governor.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0He asked \u00a0Wike to be holistic in his comments about developmental projects in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi who was reacting to Wike\u2019s statement on the Rivers monorail project, where he (Governor Wike) said he will not touch the project based on the advise of the people of Rivers State, explained that Governor Wike does not understand that the monorail project belonged to the Rivers people and not him, Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi said same Rivers people had consistently praised the project and had seen it as a way to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also said most of the projects being referred to as abandoned projects by Governor Wike were ninety-percent completed.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi, however, cautioned Governor Nyesom Wike to stop lying to the people of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cGovernor Wike said that he will not touch Amaechi\u2019s monorail and that the entire state has told him not to continue with the project. Can someone please tell Wike that the monorail belongs to Rivers State and it\u2019s not Amaechi\u2019s private monorail\u201d, Amaechi stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Wike, which Rivers people told you not to touch the monorail project? Is it the same Rivers people that have consistently praised the project and see it as a catalyst to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa? Or is Wike aggregating the jaundiced views of the coterie of court-jesters that hang around him daily, as the opinion of the entire people of the State?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is sad, very sad that Wike has elected to play politics with this laudable project that was almost completed before Amaechi left office\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi, who preceded Wike as governor of the state then described Wike as a \u201cshameless liar\u201d for either underplaying projects embarked upon by his administration or cornering them as his achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Wike also described several ongoing projects in the State when Amaechi left office as \u2018abandoned projects\u2019, which he claimed to have completed or about to complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe specifically mentioned the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity road that connects the Island of Opobo to Andoni and the rest of the State. What a shameless lie! This project was ongoing and was almost completed as at May 29, 2015. May we also remind Wike that the Eagle Island- Diobu road that he once claimed to have been abandoned was 90 percent completed with just the final course of coal tar remaining as at when he succeeded Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s repudiating that Wike would even attempt to rubbish and destroy the laudable projects and achievements Amaechi made in the health and educational sectors as governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShamefully, what has happened in the past months since Wike became governor is that Wike has neglected the model schools and health facilities built by Amaechi and have allowed them to rot away, taken over by weeds and grasses, in tandem with his policy of not wanting to touch Amaechi\u2019s projects or build on Amaechi\u2019s enduring legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Wike, these projects belong to Rivers State and its people, not Amaechi,\u201d he reiterated.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has described Governor Nyesom Wike \u00a0as a liar and a man not fit to be Rivers Governor. \u00a0He asked \u00a0Wike to be holistic in his&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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