'I AM NOT INTERESTED IF AMEACHI IS MADE MINISTER'- Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has again
come out to state that he has no interest in the
appointment of his predecessor, Mr. Rotimi
Amaechi as minister.
He stressed that the appointment of Amaechi had
nothing to do with the governance of Rivers State.
Wike spoke through his Special Adviser on Media
and Publicity, Opunabo Inko-Tariah on Monday in
reaction to claims by the All Progressives
Congress, APC, that he was orchestrating a
protest against Amaechi’s expected appointment
as a minister.
The governor, who described claims that he was
working against Amaechi’s likely emergence as a
minister as spurious and malicious, maintained
that it was the right of the President to select
those that would work with him as ministers.
His words, “It is not only spurious, but fatuous
and malicious. Governor Wike has no cause to
orchestrate a protest against the appointment of
Rotimi Amaechi.
“Let me reiterate for the umpteenth time that the
governor has no nexus with the appointment of
Amaechi or otherwise. It is the right of the
President to appoint anybody of his choice
provided such an appointment is in sync with the
relevant laws.
“The appointment of Amaechi will definitely have
no bearing on the governance of Rivers State.
There are crucial issues the governor is more
concerned with which are issues of the state and
not trifles like the appointment of Amaechi.
“It is apparent that the APC in Rivers State has
exhausted its basket of lies and barren
propaganda but still wants to be heard or noticed
despite its waned popularity in the state,” Wike
said.
While stressing that APC’s stratagem of spreading
of falsehood had failed, the statement stressed
that “Governor Wike’s concern now is to clear the
rubbish Amaechi left behind in his eight years of
maladministration that impoverished the state and
the people.
“Therefore, if the APC is dispensing such
unfounded falsehood as a stratagem, it has failed.
Or, is the APC distraught that Amaechi might not
scale through the screening because of his
antecedents?
“If that is the problem, it (APC) should think of
how to sort it out and not spread falsehood to
gain sympathy. Governor Wike is not interested in
Amaechi’s matter because it is inconsequential.”