By Seyi Babalola
Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation, has warned Rivers State residents that they are the state’s problems, not Governor Nyesom Wike, ahead of Saturday’s governorship election.
Amaechi made this statement while urging the people of Rivers to cast ballots, claiming that this was the only way to remove the misrule of the Wike-led administration.
The former governor of Rivers State spoke on Wednesday while canvassing support for Tonye Cole, the APC’s candidate for governor, at the well-known Mile 3 Market in Port Harcourt and in electoral wards in Etche and Ikwerre Local Government Areas.
Amaechi said, “Wike is tribalistic. Wike doesn’t even support the Ikwerre people, Wike supports only himself and his pocket, and his garrulous mouth. We’ll 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 wouldn’t have gone on national television and say when Atiku was demonstrating at the INEC office, he was drinking 40 years old whiskey. Is he well?
He added, “Wike isn’t our problem, you’re the problem. If he comes here now [with money], you start dancing. If Wike gives you ten million naira and when you give him power, he steals one billion naira. Wike has abandoned everything, schools, health centres. In Rivers State, Wike is the contractor and all the money is in his pocket.”
