WAR OF WORDS: Amaechi, Wike Attack Each Other
The Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has asked the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, to stay out of Rivers politics.
He advised him stop his 2015 governorship campaign and face the strike by the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), adding that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must call Wike to order, for violating its regulation of campaigning only 90 days to elections.
“Whether ASUU and ASUP members are on strike for one year, is not Wike’s business. He is gallivanting all over Rivers State for his 2015 governorship campaign and using President Jonathan as a smokescreen".
“The leadership of INEC cannot pretend not to be aware of Wike’s governorship campaign which was
transmitted live on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). It is no longer secret,” he said.
Amaechi expressed surprise that the minister of state for education, who is now supervising minister of the ministry, was acting as if he was above the law, in view of his closeness to President Jonathan, with INEC leadership being helpless.
The minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike however, stated that he was not campaigning for 2015 governorship, asking Amaechi to face infrastructural decay in Rivers State, while alleging that the Rivers governor and his “cohorts” were behind ASUU and ASUP strike to embarrass President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Wike is not campaigning for 2015. GDI is doing thanksgiving and inauguration at the ward and LGA levels. GDI is a socio-political organisation to promote good governance and not a political party," he said.
Chief Wike, who spoke through the Secretary-General of the GDI, Samuel Nwanosike, asked well-meaning Nigerians to call Amaechi to order, in order to stop embarrassing Rivers people, adding that the people of Rivers State were very proud of President Jonathan, while insisting that the president would be re-elected in 2015, in view of his “impressive” performance.
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