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Wike attacks Amaechi, says he is a total failure, can’t enter Aso Rock anymore

Adepegba Abioye by Adepegba Abioye
September 13, 2022
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, rebuked his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, when he described the former Minister of Transportation as a “total failure” who no longer has access to Aso Villa in Abuja.

“This should be the last time that you (Amaechi) will talk about this state because you are a total failure as far as this state is concerned. A total failure. Even what is supposed to come to us, you blocked it but we didn’t bother.

“You think you will not finish as a minister, you have left. I hear he can’t even enter Villa now. All those periods you intimidated police people, and army people are over. You use to tell them, ‘The President is angry with you’. Now, go and tell them,” Wike said as he commissioned a remodelled former RivBank Building in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Wike and Amaechi have been at loggerheads for years whilst they strive to enthrone their respective political parties in the state.

Amaechi was Rivers’s governor from May 2007 to May 2015. The top-ranking member of the ruling All Progressives Congress was Minister of Transportation for seven cumulative years till mid-May 2022, when he resigned to pursue his presidential ambition. Amaechi, however, lost to ex-governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.

On the other hand, Wike, who has been governor since May 2015, is a staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party. He also contested his party’s presidential primary but lost to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa State.

Amaechi had on Saturday taken a swipe at Wike at the funeral of a traditional ruler, Alabo Graham-Douglas, in the Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the state.

The former minister had knocked Wike, who was absent at the funeral, saying he thought the state government would take responsibility for everything concerning the Kalabari chief and recognise him.

However, Wike on Monday, replied Amaechi, saying he chose to stay away from the burial because it was politicised. The governor went on to detail how he constructed the roads leading to the residence and palace of the traditional ruler when he was alive.

The governor also claimed he elevated Alabo’s stool to the status of a first-class monarch before his passing.

“Don’t distract us again or else I will say more things,” Wike further warned the former minister. 

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