MINISTER of Transport, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, to provide proof that he diverted $150 million dollars belonging to the state to fund the All Progressives Congress, (APC) while he was governor of the state.
Wike who made the allegation at a thanksgiving service over his victory at the Supreme Court, also pledged to recover the money for the state.
But reacting in a statement from his office, Ameachi, dismissed the allegation, noting that Wike lied to the people of the state and those present at the church service.
He called on Wike, to disclose who he (Amaechi) gave the money to, the account from which the money was withdrawn from, and who collected the money on behalf of the APC.
He said: “The story this time is about another phantom $150 million that Amaechi purportedly stole from Rivers State coffers and siphoned to his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) within eighteen days, 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 the Wike administration, which is to throw as much mud as possible at 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.
“Ask, Governor Wike, who collected the $150million on behalf of APC? From which state government account(s) was the $150million taken from? How was the $150 million taken and given to APC?, he queried.