Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has alleged that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, spends N50m state funds on alcohol weekly.
Amaechi stated this on Tuesday when he campaigned for the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the state, Tonye Cole in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area ahead of the March 18, 2023, governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.
The former governor, who claimed to have gotten this detail directly from Wike’s alcohol supplier, said that the people of the state are still celebrating him (Amaechi) today due to the good works he did in the state without coming out in public to insult anyone.
“The person Wike buys alcohol from, said Wike spends 50 million naira every week on alcohol.
According to Amaechi, what the incumbent governor spends on alcohol every two weeks is enough to build one primary school for the state, adding that Wike’s lifestyle has been shortchanging Rivers people and wasting state funds.
He also said that he built primary schools during his time as governor with almost the equivalent of what Wike spends on alcohol in two weeks.
“The primary schools we built cost 112 million naira, which means that in two weeks, Wike has drunk one primary school. When Wike talks, it is alcohol that is talking. And he’s so shameless about it. Wike told the whole world on live TV that he was drinking a very expensive 40 year old whiskey, in the morning.
“We are asking INEC to be neutral. The people have rejected Wike and his government. Every street I went to, people were jumping on top of me shouting. They were remembering that I built 5 flyovers, I did not dance. We employed 400 new doctors, bought cars for 600 doctors, bought ambulances for all the health centres.
“We went round primary schools to see what’s going on, and discovered there were no teachers, so we hired 13,200 teachers. By the time I left as governor, there was a contractor in every school to maintain the school. Where are the schools that he (Wike) built?” Amaechi said.
The former Minister of Transportation insisted that the Governor Wike is planning a third-term in office through his stooge and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Siminalayi Fubara.
