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prominent People's Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress
chieftains in Rivers State have been engaged in a verbal war as usual.
Former Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has accused the
state government of allegedly forging documents to link him with
corruption during his tenure as governor.
Amaechi, now Minister of Transportation, alleged that Governor
Nyesom Wike was claiming that he had documents and that the judiciary
was on his side to ensure that he (Amaechi ) was convicted on corruption
charges.
Amaechi in a statement, yesterday, said: “Governor Wike has
continued to twist, falsify and forge fresh documents that he intends to
use against the immediate past governor of the state and now Minister
of Transportation, Amaechi.
“Wike wants to use the elaborately distorted and most times, out
rightly but carefully forged documents, to persecute and prosecute his
erstwhile benefactor in court.
In the past couple of days, Wike has been telling anyone who cared
to listen, bragging that he will certainly get a conviction, a judgment
against Amaechi in the law courts on spurious charges of corruption
using his forged documents because he (Wike) is in control of the
judiciary at the state and national levels.
“Nigerians will recall that only a few days back, Livingstone
Wechie, the young man Wike used to accuse Amaechi of corruption and
write false and frivolous petitions to the National Assembly, EFCC etc,
confessed on a live television programme and in a statement he also
circulated to the media, that all the documents he used to wrongfully
portray Amaechi as corrupt when he governed Rivers State, were forged
documents given to him by Wike’s Rivers State Government House.
“Wechie also admitted, like we have always said, that the
forged documents were used as the template and basis for the Justice
Omereji-led Judicial Commission of Inquiry, a panel Wike set up early in
his administration to witch-hunt, malign, vilify and persecute Amaechi.
“Since he became governor, Wike’s sole agenda has been to
attack and vilify Amaechi, no matter how ridiculous or silly it sounds.
Everyday in Rivers State, there is one frivolous or false story of what
Amaechi did or didn’t do.”
Meanwhile, Wike, in a statement by his media aide, Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, said: “Our
attention has been drawn to a reckless statement credited to Amaechi to
the effect that Governor Wike is forging documents to secure his
conviction in a court of law. This allegation is unfounded, baseless
and a figment of the imagination of the former governor.
“Amaechi also went ahead to falsely allege that Wike bragged
that he has the judiciary in the state and at the federal level in his
pocket to secure his conviction on charges of corruption. This is
another false allegation, merely concocted by the former governor to
distract attention from the crimes he committed against Rivers people,
by diverting their resources.
“We are not surprised by Amaechi’s antics to blackmail the
judiciary. Ever since the Supreme Court victory that validated the
election of Wike, Amaechi has never failed to malign the judiciary.
Governor Wike is a law abiding citizen, who believes in the rule of
law. That is why he has followed due process in tackling the issue of
high level corruption against the Minister of Transportation.
“We have very credible documents to prove the mass corrupt acts
of the former governor against the good people of Rivers State. We
also saw a reckless post by Amaechi’s associate, Mr Igo Aguma trying to
denigrate the judiciary. This is most unfortunate.
“Amaechi’s sponsorship of Wechie will not change the facts
that are known to all Nigerians. All documents tendered at the Judicial
Commission of Inquiry that investigated the Sale of Valued Assets of
the State by the Amaechi administration are genuine.”
Same pattern, the same blatant distorted and forged documents,
same old concocted stories of corruption allegations against Amaechi
told with different twists.
“Nigerians will not forget in a hurry how Wike, hurriedly
called a suspicious late night press conference to lie that the over
$43million found by EFCC in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos and the
apartment belongs to Amaechi.”
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