Wike calls for Amaechi’s arrest for public incitement

The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is concerned that the former minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has not been invited for inciting the public.

Wike also refuted the allegation that Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), once worked for him as a Minister.

The governor noted that Amaechi spurious claim of opposing the reappointment of Yakubu because he was nominated by someone in the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s camp of the APC, was tantamount to public incitement and a threat to national security.

Governor Wike, in a state broadcast on the outcome of the March 18th, 2023, general elections in Rivers State on Tuesday, said Amaechi’s outburst that the just conducted general elections by INEC was the worst in Nigeria’s history, is ludicrous.

“The truth is that Mahmood Yakubu never worked under me. Both of us worked in the Federal Ministry of Education. While I was the Minister of State for Education, he was the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, which was supervised by the Minister of Education. Was Mahmood Yakubu INEC’s chairman during the 2015 general elections in Rivers State, when we defeated him and his political party as Governor and Director-General of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign? Was it not the same Mahmood Yakubu who oversaw the 2019 general election, which was won by the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari? Was he working for Atiku Abubakar of the PDP when he was unable to win 25% of the vote for President Buhari in Rivers State in the 2019 presidential election?”

Governor Wike wondered why it took this long for Amaechi , who served as a minister for over seven years under President Buhari to speak out about his opposition to Mahmood Yakubu’s reappointment.

He noted that, out of frustration, Amaechi had publicly criticized the federal government he had served for seven years and claimed to know so many negative things about it. However, he lacked the courage to tell Nigerians what he claimed to know about Buhari’s government, which he claimed had failed completely.

“In saner climes, law enforcement agencies should have invited such a treacherous and malevolent personality to speak about hate speech, public incitement, and threats to national security, public safety, and order. By his sly statements, Rotimi Amaechi attempted to attribute, locate, and blame INEC’s chairman for his infamous political failures and frustrations in Rivers State.

“We defeated him in the 2015 general election as Governor and Director-General of the Buhari campaign in Rivers State. We defeated him in the 2019 general election as President Buhari’s super minister and general director of the APC presidential campaign. Even after using the army to cause mayhem and attempt to rig the election, he was unable to sway even 25 percent of votes for his party. We defeated him as an ordinary person in 2023. This demonstrates that Rotimi Amaechi cannot win an election against us in the state of Rivers.”

Governor Wike emphasized that the results of the 2023 general elections in Rivers State have once again exposed Amaechi, Tonye Cole, and Senator Magnus Abe of the Social Democratic Party as political rejects and paperweights.

Tonye Cole, the APC gubernatorial candidate, lost in his Ward and Local Government Area. He lost in nearly all State electoral districts, wards, and Local Government Areas. Tonye Cole ran no successful political campaigns. His party was irreparably fractured. Literally, he was waiting for his godfather and business partner, the Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, to magically appoint him as governor. Rotimi Amaechi also lost in his community, Ubima, his Ward, and his Local Government Area to the PDP. Both forgot that Rivers residents knew them as a malicious alliance.”

(TNT)