Corruption Allegation: Amaechi Has Been Vindicated—Rivers APC

Former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has been vindicated in the corruption allegation levelled against him by his successor, Nyesom Wike, the State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said on Sunday.

Rivers APC made this known in a statement signed by its Chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, in Port Harcourt. The party said the allegations, which it described as spurious, have been successfully refuted by those who worked with Amaechi in the immediate past government.

“Immediate past Secretary to the Rivers State Government, George Feyi, and the Commissioner for Finance, Dr Chamberlain Peterside, in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari did not only dismiss the allegations as a figment of the imagination of Wike and his cohorts but also provided concrete proof that Amaechi ran the state using transparent financial procedures that cannot be faulted by any well-meaning person or organisation,” the party said in the statement.

“As Messrs Feyi and Peterside made clear in their letter to President Buhari, these fabricated allegations against Amaechi, sponsored by Wike and spread through the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and such amorphous groups as The Integrity Group are borne out of malice, with the sole aim to malign the integrity of Amaechi and his administration so as to poison President Buhari’s mind and discourage him from appointing Amaechi into his cabinet,” the statement said.

The party said that with the refutation of the allegations, it is now very clear to both President Buhari and Nigerians that Amaechi is just one of our few leaders that ran a corruption-free and transparent administration during his tenure as the Governor of Rivers State.

“Thus, Wike has failed woefully in his desperate bid to tarnish the good image of Amaechi. Surely, President Buhari cannot be deceived by the antics of Wike and his cohorts seeking to stop him from making Amaechi part of his administration in recognition of his well-known managerial acumen and the role he played as Director General of the Muhammadu Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation in mobilising Nigerians to cast their ballots for the APC presidential candidate during the March 28 presidential polls,” Rivers APC said.