Onnoghen: Amaechi Responds To Wike’s Allegations

We read with dismay and utter disgust another round of spurious
allegations by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, at a
campaign rally in the State yesterday, accusing the former Governor
of the State and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi of ‘the plot to destroy the Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Walter Onnoghen.’Thenigerianvoice reports ^[1]

This is another blatant lie just to smear Amaechi and put him on
collision course with the judiciary. Ordinarily, we would not have
bothered to respond to a Governor whose stock-in-trade is to
concoct stories and lie about almost everything and anything. Wike
completely lacks any shred of credibility. Nothing is sacred to
him

The former Rivers State Governor and Minister of Transportation,
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is not a judicial officer and is not part
of whatever is happening in the Judiciary. We challenge Nyesom Wike
to mention the name of the APC chieftain, he falsely alleged,
Amaechi discussed the ‘destruction of the CJN with.’

This Wike’s latest attack on Amaechi is reminiscent of his
earlier spurious allegations during the Ikoyi-Osborne-gate scandal
where Wike disgracefully opened his mouth to shamelessly allege
that the former Rivers State Governor, Amaechi was the owner of the
13 billion dollars and the owner of the Osborne apartment in Ikoyi,
Lagos, where the money was kept. Wike lied that the money was
stolen from Rivers State Government treasury. However, in Wike’s
usual chicanery, up to today, he has refused to go to Court to
claim the 13 billion dollars found in that apartment which he
claimed was Rivers money stolen by his predecessor. Even when a
court of law openly asked anyone laying claim to the money to come
forward and collect it, Wike ran far away from the court and
chickened out, like the chicken he is.

Consequently, we wish to remind Wike that the immunity he
currently enjoys as governor against prosecution for his many
libelous attacks on Amaechi, will not last forever. At the
appropriate time, he would no doubt face the full wrath of the law
and ultimately, that of the Almighty God.

Governor Wike should by now know that Nigerians are tired and
are no longer interested in his rantings and cock and bull stories
against Amaechi. Indeed, it is pathetic and a big shame that Wike
do not know that Nigerians already know him as an incurable,
incorrigible compulsive liar and do not take him and/or his
comments seriously.

Again, Wike’s recent outburst against Amaechi at the PDP
campaign is diversionary. The Governor knowing too well that he has
nothing to show for his almost four years in office to Rivers
people, in a state obviously with one of the highest allocations,
resorted to casting aspersions on Amaechi, instead of telling the
people what he had done for the State.

We therefore call on all and sundry to ignore Wike, a frivolous,
deceitful character who is obviously drunk on power and off course,
alcohol- what a terrible collabo!

RT. HON. CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI MEDIA OFFICE
JANUARY 18, 2019
ABUJA