Why Amaechi is fighting & wants to stop Governor Wike's probe commission

 

This is a press statement. Read below..

The immediate past governor of Rivers State Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has again explained why 

he is opposed to and wants to stop the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by his successor, Nyesom 

Wike to probe some selected government transactions, while Amaechi was governor.

In a statement released by the former governor’s media office Sunday, Amaechi reiterated and emphasized that 

he’s not afraid of a fair and decent probe or investigation or inquiry of his administration; and would cooperate and

 support such probe or investigation or inquiry in as much as it’s done within the ambits of our laws.

The statement continues:

“However what Wike has set out to do is anything but a fair probe. The commission will not be fair to Amaechi

 because it was set up to indict him. Wike had repeatedly held that Amaechi, the person to be investigated, acted 

illegally in the disbursement of public funds and that Amaechi ran a corrupt government. Clearly, Wike has

 prejudged the matter and showed his bias that Amaechi is guilty even before investigations. This means Wike, 

with his prejudiced, made up mind has taken a position of a guilty verdict even before the outcome is known or

 established.”

“The same Wike who had adjudged the yet-to-be-investigated conduct of Amaechi as illegal and Amaechi as

 corrupt, is the same person that has gone ahead to set up a commission of inquiry and will have the final say on 

the findings of the commission. What a sham! “

“This bias and predetermined agenda to indict Amaechi is obvious even in the terms of reference of the 

commission. In one of the defective terms of reference, Wike said the Commission should investigate the

 circumstances that led to the ‘sale of the state Hotel Olympia’. With a fair and decent probe, the Inquiry should 

have been ‘to examine (or investigate) the transaction concerning Hotel Olympia’. The difference is so clear: 

In the former, jaundiced Wike’s Term of Reference, it has been prejudiced and concluded that the Hotel was sold,

 while in the latter, the Inquiry is open and fair, and may lead to a finding of a sale or a lease or even a gift or even

 a pledge. Now, having so concluded that Hotel Olympia was sold, would Wike be decent and humble enough to

 reverse himself if documents showed it was never sold but concessioned or leased? This is one of the dangers 

of Wike’s commission that harbours a predetermined outcome in the name of
an Inquiry and Amaechi will not subject himself to Wike’s deceit and phony shenanigans. Hotel Olympia was

 never sold. The hotel was only concessioned (or leased) on the approval of the State Executive Council and not 

sold.”

“Even while inaugurating his yeoman commission of Inquiry, Wike could not conceal his vendetta agenda. He 

was clear to the panel members that their job is to indict Amaechi. And to do this his dirty hack job, he got

 Justice G. O. Omereji(the commission chairman), a man who is well known to harbour a long held, extreme

 anger, hatred and animosity against former governor Amaechi.  And Justice Omereji has never disguised this his

 stance and disposition towards Amaechi. As a matter of fact, Justice Omereji even advised a former Nigerian 

Bar Association(NBA) chairman in Rivers State on measures (to take) against then Governor Amaechi. He had

 expressed his hatred for Amaechi several times to the NBA chairman who was also an Attorney-General of Rivers

 State. How can we now expect Justice Omereji to be fair to Amaechi, the person he passionately loathes with 

extreme malice and venom?”

“Anyone who has been following events in Rivers State knows this Wike probe is just a fraudulent sham, a

 deceptive mission to indict Amaechi. Wike’s one-point agenda is to go after his predecessor. Immediately Wike

 took over, he made a show and gave a performance of his false accusations that Amaechi stripped the Governor’s

 Lodge bare, saying that the former governor stole spoons, plates, knives, cups, mattresses, forks and even

 curtains from the Governor’s Lodge! However, in the images Wike showed to back his lies, the curtains in the

 lodge were clearly there, seen and intact. Again, Wike claimed he met a completely empty treasury. That again is

 another big lie and grand deception. We have said that former governor Amaechi left billions of naira and we even 

went ahead to mention the banks and give the names of the accounts the money were, as at May 29, 2015. We 

challenge Wike to publish the statements of these accounts and other Rivers State
government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) accounts as at May 29; to prove his claim and show 

the public that Amaechi left an empty treasury for him.”

“This Wike’s probe is dead on arrival. It’s ill-conceived and ill-motivated. Wike’s probe is designed to twist and

 distort, or even completely alter selected legitimate government transactions in his desperation to cook up, and 

fabricate sham cases of corruption against Amaechi. Wike’s probe commission shall not achieve anything beyond 

political excitements, entertainment and theatrics.”

“Finally, Amaechi will continue to use every constitutional and legal means available to protect his name and 

image from this massive smear campaign, State-sponsored onslaught against him by Wike led government whose

 sole agenda is a desperate search for a Rotimi Amaechi political downfall.”