Billionaire businessman and politician, Prince Ned Nwoko, has declared that a man like Governor Nyesom Wike, whose both hands are stained with filthy lucre, lacks the moral justification to utter a word on embezzlement.
Nwoko pointedly said that because Wike was spoon-fed to become governor through godfather syndrome in 2015, thereby desperately grabbing public funds to his chest, should not be a license to brag and bully thus, challenged Wike to disclose his source of the wealth he now flaunts with arrogant vainglorious relish.
This was as he said that for Wike to go sanctimonious is unpardonable criminality, stressing that no matter the pretence, the Rivers State governor has exposed himself towards jail.
Nwoko said that he is aware like discerning members of the public, of Wike’s primitive hoarding of illicit loots for elections, stressing that it is “a dubious game plan that can only be contrived by a man of opaque character”.
He pointedly said that Wike lacks the moral value to speak on corruption among some governors, saying that the Kettle cannot call the Pot black.
These were contained a statement issued by the Ned Nwoko Media Directorate while responding to a trending video in which Governor Nyesom Wike allegedly made some insinuations against Prince Ned Nwoko.
The statement stated; “Characteristic of the garrulous governor, he carelessly dabbled again into the issue of the $418 Paris Club refunds, a legitimate entitlement of Prince Ned Nwoko, whose patriotic ingenuity, as a time-honoured lawyer, secured billions of dollars in favour of Local and State governments including Wike’s administration as a beneficiary.
“Wike had in illogical imprudence, chastised Ned Nwoko for laying claim to monies the international lawyer genuinely earned and approved by the Federal Government following various Federal High Courts, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court judgements, the federal government and presidential approvals and three separate EFCC reports supporting the payments.
“When has demands for professional fees duly sanctioned by statutory authorities and scrutinized by anti -corruption agencies like the EFCC and DSS become ‘fraud’? We are appalled by Wike’s wicked and despicable wild goose chase,” it said.
Ned Nwoko Media directorate therefore asserted that on the contrary, that Governor Wike of Rivers state received a whopping share of over 60 billion Naira from the Paris Club refunds to states through the sterner stuff of Prince Ned Nwoko, who took the Federal Government to Courts on behalf of the States and Local Governments and won, over the arbitrary deductions.
It also said; “We have infallible evidence that Wike not only collected the huge funds but squandered the proceeds through phantom projects and frivolous travels around the world in crude obscene ego trip.
“We need to remind Wike for the untempt time, in case he has forgotten, that 25 innocent children in life support machines died in a Rivers state-owned hospital the same hour because the hospital could not afford electricity. He could not provide electricity having diverted all funds to meaningless ventures for self-aggrandizement.
“At the appropriate time when his dictatorial reign on the high horse is over, he would surely answer charges of criminal negligence at the International Court of Justice for the sad deaths of those children” it stated.
Nwoko further said that it is laughable that Wike, who is known as a man of monumental corrupt tendencies and wanton profligacy could so unabashedly talk when his activities connote unimaginable scam and fraudulence.
The statement further stated; “Why cast childish attacks against Ned Nwoko? A towering personality who had consummated his career as a world class lawyer in the 1990s in London when Wike was struggling as an obscure worker in a Local Government.
“Who was Wike when Ned Nwoko returned to Nigeria in 1999 to win Aniocha/Oshimili Federal constituency seat and mount the green chambers of the National Assembly as a member of the House of Representatives?
“Let Wike disclose his source of wealth he now flaunts with arrogant vainglorious relish. Can he survive outside dirty politics? Wike’s claim against Ned Nwoko is hypocritical and face-saving duplicity”.
Commenting on the alleged payments of 13% derivation to South-south states, Ned Nwoko said that Wike’s claim is fraudulent, stressing that he is trying falsely and maliciously to instigate the people against some governors.
In his words; “Wike postures deceptively in panic to cover his tracks on the well-known serious open secret of his involvement in national economic sabotage through oil bunkering.
“If the governor’s mischievous vituperations on the Paris Club refunds are off key and unserious, his pedestrian shout on Ned Nwoko’s matrimony amounts to nothing. His false childish tantrums that the man has imaginary “20 wives” sounded like beer parlour gossip, unbelievable from the lips of a governor!
“How nauseating and condescending. But that is Wike, ever steered by gutter language and uncouth tempers.
In matters of another man’s wives, why is the voice of the controversial loose cannon particularly shrill? Wike must summon courage to address these posers if he is truly man enough,” Nwoko said.
He urged Wike to continue to delude himself in bogus gubernatorial robe, adding however that in six months’ time, he would descend into a commoner, stripped of all immunity, bare from boastful manners and haughty airs. The statement said that Prince Ned Nwoko, a civil fellow who has never been on the street with Wike would then compel him to answer questions about his litany of lies and corrupt misdeeds, adding that he is resolutely poised, waiting to bring the Rivers state governor to justice very soon.
According to Nwoko; “Since Wike lost the PDP presidential ticket and failed nomination for Vice presidential slot because of his brash and unreliable temperament, he has been weeping, nagging on Television and every forum. Rather than lick his self -inflicted wounds remorsefully, he chose an inglorious path of blame game and transferred aggression. How pitiable for a fake emperor tumbling like the old nursery rhyme clown Humpty Dumpty.
“We hereby wish to emphasize for the avoidance of doubt that no external influence whether overtly or covertly moved Prince Ned Nwoko to challenge Wike’s excesses as the Star Prince of Anioma is a man of his own clout, unaffected and independent by nature.
“He is driven by the conviction as a pioneer and strong stakeholder in PDP, that an unhinged Wike, a latter day political noise maker and opportunist has become a power-drunk bull in a China shop who must be decisively handled, before he plots more divisive embarrassment”
“Remarkably, Prince Ned Nwoko with his matchless exposure has all it takes to humble the Port-Harcourt talkative,” the statement concluded.
