Amaechi begs people of Rivers to ‘shame’ Jonathan, Patience and Wike

– Rotimi Amaechi called on the people of the state to vote for the APC in the rerun election

– He accused former president Goodluck Jonathan of imposing Governor Nyesom Wike on the people of the state

– Amaechi urged the people to reject candidates of the PDP in the election to “shame” the ex-president

Amaechi called on people of Rivers state to reject candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election to “shame” Goodluck Jonathan.

Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation and former governor of Rivers, has called on the people of the state to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the rerun election scheduled for Saturday, March 19.

The Cable reports that Amaechi appealed to the people while speaking at a town hall meeting in a community on Tuesday, March 15.

He accused former president Goodluck Jonathan of imposing Governor Nyesom Wike on the people of the state. Therefore, he urged them to reject candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election to “shame” the ex-president.

According to Amaechi, the only way to stop Wike is to vote for the APC in the House of Representatives, House of Assembly and Senate.

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“I built a secondary school and it has been taken over by weeds. It is the punishment that former president Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, in her bid to get money from me, did on us. They forced Wike on us without election. In their time, they threw APC members into detention, but is there any PDP member in detention now? That’s the difference between them and us.

“This is our opportunity to vote and put shame on them; we have to put shame on three persons: the first person is the former president, the second, is his wife and the third is Wike. The fourth is those who do not recognise the use of card reader, those who first said the magnitude of violence in Rivers was too heavy and moved the election tribunal to Abuja, but later came back to say there was no election, we leave them to God,” he said.

Amaechi took the opportunity to dismiss corruption allegations levelled against him. He said that he used the money, which Wike accused him of misappropriating, to develop the state.

“The greatness happiness I have as the former governor of Rivers state is that any campaign, whether it is APC or PDP, they used my facilities.

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“I have watched Nyesom Wike’s campaign. If it is at a stadium it is the stadium that I built. If it is a primary school, that is the primary school I built. And he told me that he is looking for Rivers state money. Did I use my teeth to build those facilities?

“Before I became a governor, there was no road in Afara community, and I gave you a road. There was no school, and I gave you a school; there was no electricity and I gave you light. Tell Nyesom Wike that if he is looking for the money, that is the money I used,” he said.

Meanwhile, Governor Wike has accused Amaechi and Amina Zakari, the national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission of planning to swap authentic results from polling units with fake results.

However, he stressed that any attempt by the former governor to move around polling booths on the election day would be resisted by the people who will publicly disgrace Amaechi for violating the electoral guidelines.

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