Rivers State Residents Have Rejected Governor Nyesom Wike, Says Rotimi Amaechi

On Wednesday, Rotimi Amaechi while soliciting support for the state All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, at an event in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area said that the Rivers State citizens have rejected the governor of the state, Nyesom Wike.

Nyesom Wike and Rotimi Amaechi

The former Minister of Transportation, and Governor of Rivers State, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to be neutral in Saturday’s March 18 governorship elections in the state.

Amaechi criticised Wike for saying he was drinking a 40-year-old whiskey when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members were protesting at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.

“Every street I went to, people were jumping on top of me shouting. They were remembering that I built five 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?

“Compare Tonye and the other man, then compare our government with that of Wike. Did Wike do (construct) schools, did he do (supply) electricity? Your health care, we did.

"When you see Tonye Cole who is a businessman, from business into politics, why won’t you invest in him? This is your time, come out and vote. When we win, things will change,” he said.

Rotimi Amaechi who has been notably quiet since after the APC presidential primaries in Abuja, where Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged as the party's presidential flag bearer, urged the citizens of Rivers state to vote en masse for Tonye Cole over the governorship candidate of the PDP, Siminialayi Fubara, who he described as Wike’s protege that would bring the same distress to the state.

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