Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has alleged former minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi of making inciting remarks, capable of putting indigenes of Rivers and the Igbos living in the oil rich state on a collision course.
The governor made this comment while inaugurating the Akpabu-Egbeda-Omoku Link Road in Emohua Local Government Area of the State on Friday.
Wike said, Amaechi, in his quest to foist the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tonye Cole on the Rivers populace made reference to the abandoned property by the Igbo during the civil war.
He furthered that the former governor of Rivers State and the APC candidate’s inordinate ambition may be a recipe for social violence.
“We have been living peacefully with our brothers and sisters; Ndi Igbos, doing business peacefully. I felt that I should let you know that a vote for Tonye Cole is a vote for the division of Rivers State. A vote for Tonye Cole is a vote in order not for him to return our 50 million US dollars, and God will not allow us to vote for such people. We are prosecuting them. They want to run away from prosecution, they can not.”
Wike, however, chided Amaechi for making empty promise to the Igbos residing in the State that they would be compensated for their lost property during the civil war if they elect Tonye Cole as governor in the March 18 general elections.
“When you have a child (Chibuike Amaechi) who wants to destroy a home, to open up old wounds at this time in Nigeria, in Rivers State is a terrible thing. He is trying to put us and the Igbos at loggerheads for us to fight, God will not allow us to fight.”
