Wike Throws Jab At Amaechi, Calls Him ‘A Total Failure’
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, dragged his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, when he described the former Minister of Transportation as a “total failure” who no longer have access to Aso Villa in Abuja.
“This should your last time that you (Amaechi) will talk about this state because you are a total failure as far as this state is concerned. A total failure. Even what is supposed to come to us, you blocked it but we didn’t bother.
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“You think you will not finish as a minister, you have left. I hear he can’t even enter Villa now. All those periods you intimidated police people, army people is over. You use to tell them, ‘The President is angry with you’. Now, go and tell them,” Wike said he commissioned a remodeled former RivBank Building in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Wike and Amaechi have been at loggerheads for years whilst they strive to enthrone their respective political parties in the state.
Amaechi was Rivers governor from May 2007 to May 2015. The top-ranking member of the ruling All Progressives Congress was Minister of Transportation for seven cumulative years till mid-May 2022 when he resigned to pursue his presidential ambition. Amaechi, however, lost to ex-governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.
On the other hand, Wike, who has been governor since May 2015, is a staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He also contested his party’s presidential primary but lost to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa State.
Amaechi had on Saturday took a swipe at Wike at the funeral of a traditional ruler, Alabo Graham-Douglas, in the Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the state.
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The former minister had knocked Wike, who was absent at the funeral, saying he thought the state governor would take responsibility for everything concerning the Kalabari chief and recognised him.
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