Leave Amaechi Alone, Rivers APC Tells Wike, PDP

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has called on Governor Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party to stop their alleged plan to destroy the reputation of the past governor, Rotimi Amaechi. The APC said the campaign of calumny and probe of Amaechi’s administration were targeted at shutting its leader (Amaechi) out of political relevance. Deputy Chairman of the party, Peter Odike, who made this remark in Port Harcourt on Saturday, accused Wike and the PDP of
orchestrating a plan to scuttle Amaechi’s expected political appointment by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. describing the move as a wasteful venture, Odike called on elders, youths and women in the state and the Niger Delta to rise in unison and tell the governor and leadership of the PDP in Rivers that their actions against the former governor were becoming inimical to the progress of the state. He said, “Today, a handful of political actors, who are driven by selfish and inordinate ambitions, have concluded that the only way to achieve their ambitions is to inflict irredeemable damage on the political, economic, social, spiritual and even physical status of Rotimi Amaechi. “The effort to pull down Amaechi intensified in the month of August and currently spilling over to the expectant month of September when President (Muhammadu) Buhari is expected to name members of the Federal Executive Council and make other strategic appointments.''He added that the commission of inquiry set up by Wike and the petitions to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission against Amaechi, were plans orchestrated by the PDP and their cohorts to push Amaechi into political oblivion. The Rivers Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Felix Obuah, however, explained that the establishment of a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate how the affairs of the state were managed by the Amaechi administration had nothing to do with former governor’s political ambition. Obuah, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Jerry Needam, said the people of the state deserved to know what happened in the past administration. He said, “In 2008, Amaechi set up commissions of inquiry and a former governor, Dr. Peter Odili, and some others appeared and testified on how they managed the affairs of the state. Why then is it that the APC is seeing the current investigation of the immediate past administration as a witch-hunt?