BEVERLY HILLS, February 08, (THEWILL) – Governor of Rivers state, Chief Nyesom Wike has claimed that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is one-sidedness in its fight against corruption, stressing that he would rather fight corruption his own way than support the anti-graft campaign of the current administration.
The Governor alleged that his predecessor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, spent a whopping sum of $150 million between December 1 and 18, 2014 to finance the national campaigns of the All Progressives Congress, APC ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Wike made this assertion on Sunday during a thanksgiving service in celebration of his victory at the Supreme Court. The event was attended by former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom State), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa State), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia State) joined by the deputy governor of Ebonyi State.
According to the celebrator, “We would not support the fight against corruption. People took our money from the state, and we wrote to the police asking them to go and make a statement; nothing has come out of it.
“We won’t take anybody to the EFCC because I know what would happen. We know how to fight our own way. We won’t support that war against corruption that they are doing.”
While vowing to recover all the stolen money belonging to the state, he called for a comprehensive fight against corruption and canvassed support for the prosecution of all those who allegedly behind the looting of the state fund.
Wike, who disclosed that he would have given up if the verdict did not end in his favour, noted that bloodshed was prevented in the state through the ruling of the apex court, asserting that “blood would have flown if the election was going to hold again.”
His words, “So, I called some people, including the chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, that I was not going to run again. They said why and I explained that if I did, many people would die.
“I pray that my enemy should continue to have permanent high blood pressure. I wouldn’t pray that God will heal them. My own has come down now, and for several months it was high. It is time for their own to rise.”
Earlier in his sermon, Most Rev’d Ignatius Kattey, who presided over the service held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumueprikom, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, urged Wike to remain grateful to God for his victory.
He observed that the Supreme Court verdict on the last governorship election in the state had brought peace to Rivers and charged the governor to be the father of all the people of the state.
