Ministerial nomination: We won’t endorse Amaechi, Rivers senators insist

Former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi
Senators from Rivers State on Saturday insisted that they would
oppose the nomination of a former governor of the state, Mr.
Rotimi Amaechi.
The Senator representing Rivers-East Senatorial District, Senator
George Sekibo, told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday that the
petition against the ex-governor was “supported by the three
senators from the state.”
He also said they would insist on the report of the Senate
committee on public petitions currently investigating allegations
against Amaechi before he could be cleared by the upper
chamber of the National Assembly.
Meanwhile, Amaechi, has told his successor, Mr. Nyesom Wike,
to go to court over the recommendations of the Justice George
Omereji-led Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the sales of
valued assets belonging to the state by the last administration.
Amaechi said in a statement issued from his Media Office on
Saturday that rather than engage in theatrics and ‘childish’
tantrums, Wike should prosecute him if there was any case of
corruption against him.
The state government had on Friday, while briefing journalists,
declared that the commission of inquiry had indicted Amaechi
and asked the ex-governor and others to return the sum of
N97bn belonging to the state.
The government also directed its Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Chinwe Aguma (SAN) to begin a
process of prosecuting Amaechi and others indicted by the panel
should they fail to return the said sum.
But Amaechi specifically stated that from the way the panel
conducted its probe, it was obvious that Wike established it
(panel) with a mission to indict him, maintaining that the
outcome of the Omereji commission was not surprising to him.
He said, “Indeed, the Wike panel was an inquisition against
Amaechi. Wike should go to court if he has any case of alleged
corrupt activities against Amaechi. His panel is not and can
never be a law court.
“Wike’s regular childish tantrums, theatrics, comedy and drama
of screaming huge bogus and phantom figures of missing or
stolen or misappropriated billions of naira by the Amaechi-led
administration have become a silly and sickening distraction.”
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