The Rivers Support Initiative (RSI) has faulted a recent statement that Governor Nyesom Wike procured 150 hotel rooms in Lagos for guests in celebration of his award on Saturday, February 18, by a national daily as the Best Performing Governor in 2016.
A former high ranking official at the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Eyo Ekpo, has tacitly made the allegation.
But RSI’s reaction comes after Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation, made the same allegation.
Group attacks Amaechi for alleging that Wike booked 150 hotel rooms for guests in Lagos
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According to a statement signed by Barrister Collins Ibekazi Enyindah, secretary general of RSI, the group slammed Amaechi for trying to rubbish the governor, whom the acting president, Yemi Osinbajo has desribed as ‘Mr. Project’, Daily Post reports.
Enyindah said: “How can a sane person wake up to the figment of his own imagination to raise such an unfounded allegation knowing the same to be untrue, particularly when on the day of the said occasion, the hotel allocated only 17 rooms to Governor Wike and his guests, as other awardees were said to have also taken up available spaces in the ever busy hotel.
“It may also provoke the sense of reminiscence of the people of how over 1.8 trillion naira of tax payers money was allegedly siphoned by Amaechi while he was governor of Rivers state to finance the formation of the fragile contraption called APC, and for which he was personally rewarded with the office of Minister of Transportation, described as a grade A ministry for his personal benefit.”
RSI further posited as follows: “We only hope the Minister realizes that the era of carting away people’s money to finance interests that have no direct benefit on Rivers people is over. Our people will certainly no longer tolerate a man who has since abandoned them, without even a hut in his village to establish affinity.
“It is obvious that Amaechi has lost his bearing, and there is a total disconnect with Rivers people and what is happening around them, and should concentrate on the job given to him in Abuja for which Rivers people are expecting him to attract legitimate benefits due them as of right and leave Governor Wike alone to concentrate on the good works he is doing in the state, and for which the Acting President appropriately nicknamed him ”Mr. Project”.
“Talking about recklessness in spending of public funds, coming from a man who was associated with reckless spending of public funds while in office as Governor of Rivers state can only amount to a kettle calling a pot black.”
Recall that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said Governor Wike deserves the appellation of “Mr Projects” because of his high profile projects across the state.
Osinbajo who made the declaration at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Monday, February 13 added that he was impressed by the project sites he visited.
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