Senators from Rivers State on Saturday insisted that they would oppose
the nomination of a former governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi.
The
Senator representing Rivers-East Senatorial District, Senator George
Sekibo, told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday that the petition against the
ex-governor was “supported by the three senators from the state.”
He
also said they would insist on the report of the Senate committee on
public petitions currently investigating allegations against Amaechi
before he could be cleared by the upper chamber of the National
Assembly.
Meanwhile, Amaechi, has told his successor, Mr. Nyesom
Wike, to go to court over the
recommendations of the Justice George
Omereji-led Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the sales of valued
assets belonging to the state by the last administration.
Amaechi
said in a statement issued from his Media Office on Saturday that
rather than engage in theatrics and ‘childish’ tantrums, Wike should
prosecute him if there was any case of corruption against him.
The
state government had on Friday, while briefing journalists, declared
that the commission of inquiry had indicted Amaechi and asked the
ex-governor and others to return the sum of N97bn belonging to the
state.
The government also directed its Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Chinwe Aguma (SAN) to begin a process of
prosecuting Amaechi and others indicted by the panel should they fail to
return the said sum.
But Amaechi specifically stated that from
the way the panel conducted its probe, it was obvious that Wike
established it (panel) with a mission to indict him, maintaining that
the outcome of the Omereji commission was not surprising to him.
He
said, “Indeed, the Wike panel was an inquisition against Amaechi. Wike
should go to court if he has any case of alleged corrupt activities
against Amaechi. His panel is not and can never be a law court.
“Wike’s
regular childish tantrums, theatrics, comedy and drama of screaming
huge bogus and phantom figures of missing or stolen or misappropriated
billions of naira by the Amaechi-led administration have become a silly
and sickening distraction.”
Source: Punch
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