The Minister of Transport and Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike of negotiating with the APC to help deliver presidential votes in exchange for the party helping him to win a second term in the state.
According to Vanguard, Amaechi made the claim in an interview before the postponement of the presidential and national assembly elections.
He said, “Wike has been negotiating with APC that he will help us deliver presidential votes, we should help him deliver governorship. I said to our people, when they became very worried, that I won’t even talk about it. How would they implement it? If Wike is powerful enough to deliver at the Presidential, he should be powerful enough to deliver himself.
“If Wike is negotiating to help us deliver presidential and then we help him deliver governorship, just imagine that kind of negotiation. If we have power to deliver governorship, shouldn’t we have same power to deliver presidential? If Wike has power to deliver presidential, shouldn’t he also have power to deliver governorship? I asked them, what are they afraid of?
“We talk about betrayal. Wike, first, second terms as Chairman of Council, Dr. Odili didn’t support his coming back. Ask him. I went on campaigns in the villages in Obia Akpor to return him as chairman of council. When I became governor, I made him Chief of Staff. When as they asked me as Chairman, Governors Forum to nominate a second minister, I nominated him.
“As soon as he got his hands on Mrs Goodluck Jonathan, he sold us out. Once they get a pot of porridge, they started making noise. So, I have no personal quarrel. It’s about power. The justice of the politics of Rivers today is that power should go Riverine. You can’t because you have population, deny the others. But then, if he were so popular, why go to court? Why not allow people to vote, since you say you an Ikwerre man?”
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