Amaechi Is The Most Corrupt, Don't Appoint Him As A Minister - Wike

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike  has advised President
Muhammad Buhari not to give Rotimi
Amaechi any appointment in his
cabinet.
Describing his predecessor as the
most corrupt government official in
the country, Wike said Buhari’s anti-
corruption campaign would suffer if a
man like Amaechi served in his
government.
Given the role Amaechi played in the
emergence of Buhari, there are
reports that the director-general of
the APC presidential campaign will be
considered in Buhari’s cabinet.
“If Buhari is sincere in his fight
against corruption, let him probe the
Amaechi’s government and he will
discover that there cannot be a
government official that is more
corrupt than Amaechi,” Opunabo
Inko-Tariah, Wike’s special adviser on
media and publicity, said in a
statement issued on Sunday.
“From the genesis to revelation of his
government, Amaechi’s fiscal
recklessness and dictatorial policies
and approaches are responsible for
the financial woes of the state that
should ordinarily be buoyant.
“A man like Amaechi must not be
allowed to flaunt the fruits of his
crime with impunity.
He has to account for the monthly
allocations he received in 8 years and
the IGRs for the same period.
He spirited so much out of the system
with little or nothing to show for it.
“The appointment of Amaechi by
Buhari will be an endorsement of
corruption by Buhari,” he said.
The governor said if Amaechi was
blameless, he wouldn’t be seeking
protection from investigation.
“If there are no skeletons in his
cupboard, why try to frustrate the
Hon Justice Omereji’s commission of
inquiry? This obviates the need for
further evidence that his hands are
dirty.
After all, he started and ended his
reign with the late Justice Kayode
Esho’s panel and the Prof Odinkalu’s
commission of inquiry respectively -
not to talk of that headed by Justice B
A Georgewill.
‘Do unto others, what you want
others to do unto you’, our Lord Jesus
admonished my brother Knight,
Amaechi.
“The attempt to stop the Hon Justice
Omereji’s Commission of Inquiry
from investigating his government is
not only risible but shameful and
highly provocative.
It is ironical that the same man who
sealed the judiciary for close to two
years and turned lawyers into taxi
drivers and artisans will now have the
gumption to approach the same
courts he desecrated for justice.
“If his successor had followed his
footsteps, which court would he have
approached to seek redress? How will
he appear before those he almost
turned into beggars?
As a result of his callous and
insensitive actions, most lawyers had
broken homes as they could not
sustain their families. Some even lost
their loved ones in hospitals for lack
of money to buy needed drugs.”