Ghen ghen something obviously brewing in Rivers state.
The All Progressives Congress, Rivers State Chapter,
has accused Governor Nyesom Wike of plotting to bribe
tribunal judges with N10 billion.
In a statement issued by Chris Finebone, the Rivers
State Publicity Secretary of the APC, he said the alleged
move was as a result of the PDP’s poor showing in the
tribunal sitting in Abuja.
According to the statement, “Following a spate of
recent negative outcomes for the Rivers State
Governor, Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) at the various Election Petition Tribunals
sitting in Abuja, the Governor has commenced
negotiations to borrow a whopping N10 billion from
Zenith Bank PLC for the sole purpose of bribing judges
of the Tribunals, Appeal Courts amongst others.
“To date, the Governor has collected a total of about
N100 billion comprising Federal allocations, Internally
Generated Revenue (IGR), balance in the Reserve Fund
and other sundry sums left in the State’s various
accounts with the banks by 29th May.
“The aforementioned sum is exclusive of the earlier
N30 billion obtained from banks by the governor since
he assumed office. In sum total, about N130 billion has
passed through the hands of the governor in 3 months
with only a few projects of his predecessor he is
completing and some cosmetic asphalting and pothole
filling of some streets to show for it. If he borrows
additional N10 billion from Zenith Bank as he has
already decided to do, Rivers people and our next
generation shall have been enslaved further to the tune
of N40 billion as loan before the tribunal shows the
governor the way out of Government House, Port
Harcourt.
“Indeed, the APC is saddened at the carte blanche
Nyesom Wike has handed to himself to recklessly
borrow in the name of the people without consideration
for the present and future generations of Rivers people.”
He added that “With the Governor as Commissioner for
Works, Due Process Office and Site Engineer all rolled
into one, the world can better imagine the big scam
going on in Rivers State by a master underhand deal-
maker as Governor.
“But most worrisome to the APC is the fact that
information available to us indicates that the Governor
made up his mind to borrow the N10 billion from Zenith
Bank which he will keep exclusively to bribe judges
every step of the way especially now that news coming
to the Governor from the tribunals sitting in Abuja is
not that cheery to his ears.
“We recall that his earlier attempt to approach the Chief
Justice of Nigeria [CJN] with a view to compromising
the latter ended in fiasco as the APC exposed his antics
before he could get close to the revered CJN.
“After that unpalatable incident, we believed [though
wrongly] that his disastrous experience with the CJN
would have taught him a lesson but from what we now
know, Nyesom Wike has learnt nothing from the CJN
debacle as he has since devised other means of
compromising some of the men of the hallowed realm.
Our happiness is that some of the judges place
premium on their reputation and name and care little
about the filthy lucre the Governor dangles at them.
“The APC will not forget that Nyesom Wike prides in his
ability to compromise any living being as long as the
person has a price. He boasts of his escapades with
men of the judiciary; cavorts with court registrars,
clerks and even bailiffs. We are sure he believes that
he is the best at his game the way late Pablo Escobar
saw himself in exaggerated terms in Colombia as a
drug warlord. But there is always one mountain too
high to climb for mortal man.
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“Therefore, the APC would like to appeal to well-
meaning Rivers elders and leaders-of-thought to
prevail on Gov. Nyesom Wike against incessant and
needless high-interest borrowing he has embarked on
for his selfish desires as this has catastrophic outcome
for the future of our people and generations yet
unborn.”
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