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Minister of Transport and former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, on Saturday hit at his successor, Governor Nyesom Wike, accusing him of desperately taking over government in the state basically to steal public funds.

Amaechi, who spoke on radio ahead of the election rerun for some political offices in the state, said Wike had become so desperate he could even sacrifice his mother.

But Wike fired back minutes later declaring that his government would ensure that Amaechi is prosecuted for corruption.

Amaechi had said Wike, who was his Chief of Staff when he governor of the state, was only in government to steal.

“We will chase Wike’s boys out of the water now we have Dakuku Peterside as DG NIMASA. 

“People still want me back as governor. I will be here till the March 19 re-run election; let’s see what Wike can do. 

“Let’s face it man to man. If you see the money stolen by Nyesom Wike in the Ministry of Education, you will be shocked. 

“Every day you wake up to find out that Wike has killed somebody. Wike has collected N50 billion; what has he done with the money?” Amaechi said.

In his response, Wike described Amaechi as needing urgent psychiatric attention. He declared Amaechi a failed governor who needs urgent psychiatric evaluation and treatment.

He further called Amaechi a monstrously corrupt politician, pointing out that after his litigation on his indictment by the judicial Commission of Inquiry, the Minister’s prosecution over the embezzlement of Rivers resources will take place.

Speaking at the Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers West Senatorial District campaign rally at Ahoada, Wike said that only a man with psychiatric disorder will compare his failed eight years in office to just eight months of the new administration. 

He said the former governor failed in his eight years as the state Chief Executive. 

According to him, Amaechi lacks proper parental upbringing, hence his desperation in the political arena.

Wike said that the APC has refused to campaign for the rerun elections because they are relying on the military and security forces to rig.

“He is a psychiatric patient who was at the radio station abusing people who are old enough to be his fathers/mothers simply because his party lost at the Supreme Court. 

“We will defeat Amaechi again and again. No matter the security deployed to Rivers State, we will win all the seats,” he said.

The governor said that Amaechi during his radio tour confessed that the military has been handed over to him to rig elections in the state adding that the plot would fail woefully as the Rivers people will defend their mandate.

He pointed out that Amaechi’s personal friend, Mr. Tosin Ajayi, was posted to Rivers State as DSS director with the evil objective of creating the environment of rigging. 

“Only yesterday, I intercepted the communication of the DSS director and the Brigade commander where they were planning on the ways of rigging the election alongside Amaechi.

“That plot has failed. Amaechi lacks sound parental upbringing. He has vindicated us when he said that he has been given the army to rig the rerun elections.  

“I know the Chief of Army staff very well. He should not allow a psychiatric patient to use the Army to rig. Is Amaechi now the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces that he talks about deploying soldiers?

“Our people will rise up to defend their votes. They will make the needed sacrifices,” Governor Wike said.

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