God Used Me To Make Amaechi Rivers State Governor – Wike

BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said that God used him to make the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Governor of Rivers State in 2007.

He said as a result, Amaechi openly declared in Church that after God in his life, he (Wike) comes next and now wondered why the former governor would become boastful over nothing.

Wike, who stated these in an interview with BBC Pidgin in Port Harcourt, the state capital, explained that the Amaechi offered him the position of Commissioner for Finance but he turned it down and opted for the position of Chief of Staff since he had the privileged to choose whichever position he wanted in the government he worked so hard to put in place.

In his words; “God used me to make Amaechi Governor of Rivers State when he was in Ghana. I was not close to Amaechi. We were just in the same party and in politics everybody has an ambition. He has his own. I don’t regret that as of that time, we preferred him to be governor. We fought it and God crowned our efforts and he became a governor.

“He is in APC and I am in PDP. So, don’t expect me to support what he is doing in APC. He said I was his employee, but he knows that God used me to make him the governor.

“I will give you a tape where Amaechi spoke in church and said that after God, I am next in his life. But when he spoke the other day, he said I was his employee. No problem, but an employee that dealt with him here (Rivers State).”

Wike said he never personally accused Amaechi of corruption but a judicial commission of inquiry in the state indicted him for the alleged misappropriation of $308m realised from the sale of the Rivers State assets.

He also said; “The judicial commission also indicted the Amaechi for allegedly wasting N54bn on the abandoned 1.4 kilometer monorail project. If you are from Rivers State, you will weep for such a thing happening.

“The former governor challenged his indictment at both the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal, and lost the case”.