In order to stop the tyrannical rule of the Governor Nyesom Wike-led administration, Rotimi Amaechi, the former minister of transportation, has urged Rivers residents to turn out on election day, cast their ballots, and stand to safeguard them.
He claimed that Wike intends to continue wasting Rivers’s resources by placing his godson, in contrast to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Tonye Cole, who has his own ideas.
Amaechi remarked on Wednesday while canvassing support for Tonye Cole of the APC in the popular Mile 3 Market in Port Harcourt and electoral wards in the Ikwerre and Etche Local Government Areas.
He said, “Wike is tribalistic. Wike does not even support the Ikwerre people, Wike supports only himself and his pocket, and his garrulous mouth. We will win. You need to come out and vote and make us win. People are tired of Wike and his stealing…If he has shame, he would not have gone on national television and say when Atiku was demonstrating at INEC office, he was drinking 40 years old whiskey. Is he well?
“Wike can never take me to court for libel. It’s so easy to prove. I will show his properties, let him tell us how he got the money to build those properties.
“Wike is not our problem, you are the problem. If he comes here now (with money), you start dancing. If Wike gives you 10 million naira and when you give him power, he steals 1 billion naira. Wike has abandoned everything, schools, health centres.., We cannot continue like that. In Rivers State, Wike is the contractor and all the money is in his pocket.
“If there’s one man who have developed Elele, I am one. I did the internal roads of Elele, I gave your children contracts for water, so if you don’t have water, don’t blame me. They put the money in their pockets. All of them are now in PDP. I built your primary schools and they were free of charge. I built your Health Centre. I made sure you had light. I hear for 4 years now you have had no light. How will your economy grow? And your people are still queuing up and following Wike about.
“You know, if I were to be governor and you told me you have no light, I will send people to come and find out why you have no light. If it is a transformer, the next thing, I’ll buy the transformer.”
Amaechi furthered: “Let’s concentrate on voting out Wike and his child (Sim). When they say Amaechi brought a candidate (Tonye Cole), I barely see him. He is an independent-minded person, but Wike brought his child. So Wike is just supporting somebody that will just be bringing money for him to be consuming and spending outside the government house. Wike can’t survive without money. So go all out, mobilise in your Wards and let’s win this election. I will be here, I am not going to Abuja.”
