The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Governor Nyesom Wike is in panic over President Muhammadu Buhari’s readiness to probe the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The party, in a statement by its spokesman, Chris Finebone, said Wike should not be afraid if he did not soil his hand as minister of state for education.
The statement reads: “It has come to the attention of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his party, the PDP have been thrown into panic mode since President, Muhammadu Buhari dropped the hint that corrupt ministers and officials of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan would be probed.
“As part of the cauldron of confusion in which the governor and his party have been thrown into, the spokesperson of the governor, Opunabo Inko-Tariah recently came out with what would pass for a litany of incoherent ironical lines which clearly typifies the quandary in which the governor and his party now find themselves.
“Like the proverbial sinking man who is bent on dragging anyone in sight, Wike babbled between name-callings of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and President Buhari to threats of resistance in an obvious display of disconcerted state of mind and disorientated thought process.
“On one hand, the governor, through Mr. Inko-Tariah, claimed to support the fight against corruption and that everything should be done to retrieve our stolen commonwealth but quickly turned around to recommend what the scope, span and colour of the probe should be. Not done, the governor threatened resistance should Mr. President not adopt his own (Wike’s) anti-corruption crusade template.
“For a governor who set up a probe panel with a mandate to probe only the last 18 months of his predecessor’s administration to now turn around to insist that the President should extend his probe to cover the last 30 years says so much about the character and persona of Governor Nyesom Wike. One may ask, between the governor’s 18-month probe and that of the President which spans four years, which is a more selective probe? Is it that Governor Nyesom Wike thinks Rivers State is now a state populated by nit-wits?
Governor Wike’s warning to the Department of State Security (DSS) on the arrest of Dame Gesila Khan, INEC REC for Rivers State is understandable to even the most naive observer. We believe that the humongous sum of N700 million reportedly found in her account must be funds the Jonathan Presidency and Nyesom Wike paid out to the woman to buy the mandate of Rivers people in the last general elections. Sadly, they did not tutor her well enough on how to deal with such huge amount of money. You cannot have a perfect crime.
“Finally, Gov. Wike’s lamentations are not as a result of the governor’s concern for former President Goodluck Jonathan; Wike is clearly weeping for himself because his indictment on the humongous fraud that took place in the Federal Ministry of Education and Universal Basic Education Commission all under his watch as Minister of State and substantive Minister, clearly hang on his neck like the hangman’s noose waiting to snap.”