Amaechi debunks Wike’s allegation of $150m donation to APC

Minister of Transportation and former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, has debunked an allegation, by Governor Nyesom Wike to the effect that he (Amaechi) gave $150 million to the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2015 general election.

 

Governor Wike had at a thanksgiving service at Saint Peters Anglican Church, Rumuepirikon, Port Harcourt, on Sunday, alleged that his predecessor gave the said amount of money from the state coffers to APC.

A statement issued yesterday by Amaechi’s media office in Abuja, dismissed the allegation and said the allegation by the governor was aimed at denigrating and disparaging his person and the office he is currently occupying.

“The ‘story-story’ this time is about another phantom $150,000,000 that Amaechi purportedly stole from Rivers State Government coffers and siphoned to his party, the APC within 18days, from December 1 to 18 of 2014. Sadly, again, Wike picked a church, a sacred temple of God, to tell his new imaginary tale; another bogus, fallacious concoction.

“This new scurrilous fabrication by Governor Wike is in sync with the one-point agenda of his Wike administration; which is to throw as much mud as possible at the former governor, Amaechi, hoping that some may at least, stick.

All sorts of spurious stories about alleged corruption and stealing of state funds against the Amaechi administration have been bandied in the media, with no attempt to substantiate or prove these distorted false claims that completely makes nonsense of common sense.

“Even, when Amaechi challenged Wike’s administration and its agents to use any constitutionally available legal process or procedure to prove their jaundiced, deceitful allegations against him and his administration, they have rather elected to do their own corruption probe, trial and conviction in the media; and now, even inside our solemn places of worship (churches). How callous! Why would a government be so determined to desecrate and destroy every institution, all in the name of playing politics?

“It continues to baffle us, like most right-thinking Nigerians, that Governor Wike will stand in a church- a solemn place of worship- and carelessly, brusquely tell such a profound lie.”

The statement challenged Governor Wike, to disclose the name of the person who collected the $150 million on behalf of APC and from which state government account (s).

“How was the $150 million taken and given to APC? Was it by wired transfer from Rivers State Government account(s) to APC account(s)?  So many questions, if Wike had attempted to answer, would have made nonsense of his supercilious allegations,” the statement further said.