Rivers State
Governor, Nyesom Wike has accused his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, of allegedly
spending the sum of one hundred and fifty million dollars $150m to finance the
2015 elections of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said the
former governor allegedly spent the huge sum between December 1 and 18, 2014 to
sponsor the national election campaigns of APC.
Wike vowed to
recover monies belonging to the state, just he called for a comprehensive fight
against corruption and canvassed support for the prosecution of all those
behind the alleged looting of funds.
The governor
further said a plot had been hatched to arrest and detain him before the
national and state assemblies rerun elections which had been postponed to March
19, 2016.
Wike restated
his earlier declaration that he would not allow the rigging of the rerun
elections in the state, warning that any INEC staff who attempts to rig would
be treated as an armed robber.
Wike said:
“Nothing is impossible with God. We won the election clearly as confirmed by the
Supreme Court. If there was a rerun, I wouldn’t have contested because there
would have been bloodbath. I resolved not to be part of anything that would
bring bloodbath,” he said.
“I am the
executive governor of Rivers State and a strong one for that matter. We will
support INEC to conduct credible elections. However, any official who plans to
rig will get the treatment reserved for armed robbers”, he said.
In his sermon,
Archbishop of the Niger Delta Province, Ignatius Kattey, said the victory of
Governor Wike at the Supreme Court had brought peace to the state and called on
the governor to be the father of all the people of the state.
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