Amaechi committed financial crime with contributions to APC campaign – Wike

The Government of Rivers state says the current anti-corruption war in the country will be incomplete without Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi in the dock, The Cable reports.

River’s commissioner for information and communication, Austin Tam-George, made this declaration in a statement on Friday while reacting to the accusation of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chief Davies Ikanya that Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike and some other PDP bigwigs were behind Amaechi’s travails with two Justices of the Supreme Court, Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta.

The statement said, “The attention of the Rivers State Government has been drawn to yet another scurrilous statement by the Rivers State branch of the All Progressives Congress, APC, alleging that Governor Nyesom Wike had a hand in the judicial scandals that have engulfed Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transport.

“Governor Wike had refrained from making public comments on this subject, because the people of Rivers State feel sadly vindicated by these latest scandals swirling around the transport minister.

“In the run up to his screening by the Senate for the post of minister in the federal cabinet in 2015, Nigerians were warned about Mr Amaechi’s egregious antecedents in public office.

“As governor of Rivers State, Mr Amaechi left a shameful record of waste and dysfunction. His thoughtless policies and mismanagement of public funds literally broke the economic spine of Rivers State.

“Amaechi’s continuous presence in the federal cabinet is an ugly moral sore, a dark blight on the so-called fight against corruption. Any war against corruption that does not begin with Mr. Amaechi in the dock is a mere fishing expedition.

“Amaechi has of course always protested his innocence. But even chieftains of his party, the APC, including serving governors, have publicly praised Mr Amaechi for bankrolling the party’s presidential campaigns in the 2015 general elections, and for sponsoring candidates in that election.

“Amaechi’s financial contributions to the APC, estimated to be in billions of naira, constitute a serious financial crime against the people of Rivers State.

“The allegations made against the transport minister by the justices of the court are therefore hardly surprising, because the scandals fall within a pattern of his moral turpitude in public life.”

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