The All Progressives Congress
(APC), Rivers State chapter, has dismissed a statement by the State chapter of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of
shielding former Governor of the State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, from
corruption probe, as “gibberish” and “a pen picture of an unstable state of
mind of the writer, his boss and political party”.
In a statement made available to Enigma Reports and signed by its
State Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone, the APC said the “press release by
the Rivers State PDP Chairman signed by his media assistant, Jerry Needam,
titled “Stop Shielding, Emboldening Amaechi, Match Words with Action”, tells of
“a group of persons who are operating within the horribly pathetic world of full-blown
lunacy”.
The party dismissed the allegations against the former Governor of “looting
of public facilities, siphoning of Rivers State funds, fraudulent sales of
State-owned establishments and monumental financial frauds committed by Rotimi
Amaechi and his administration in Rivers State, and for which a Judicial
Commission of Inquiry has been duly set up by the present administration to
investigate” as false.
Insisting that the former governor was not “corrupt by any means,” the
APC wondered if the “afore-mentioned assertions by the PDP could have come from
sane and stable minds?”, asking whether people are adjudged guilty as soon as
judicial commissions of inquiry are set up. “Is the so-called Commission unable
to reach Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi? In any case, why has Governor Nyesom
Wike suddenly developed cold feet and feeling deflated over his vendetta
Commission?”
Noting, however, that “those behind this press release deserve empathy
more than they deserve to be condemned because they appear to be at the highest
state of frustration, the type capable of resulting to serious health mishaps,”
maintaining that “the manic obsession with Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi by
Jerry Needam and his sponsors is a clear testimony of a deliberate plot to tarnish
Amaechi’s image.
It reiterated that “no amount of tar poured on Rt. Hon. Chibuike
Amaechi by Jerry Needam and his sponsors and the ongoing blackmail on President
Muhammadu Buhari will stir up ill feelings between the President and former
Governor Amaechi. As many times as they try shall they fail”.
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