Wike is running a government of deceit – Rivers APC

PORT HARCOURT – The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike of running a government of deceit.

‎In a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the River State capital, Mr. Chris Finebone, the state publicity secretary, the party said “having closely observed the slightly over one-month old Rivers State Government led by Governor Nyesom Wike, (the APC) has come to the conclusion that we have a government of deceit on our hands.
“During the political campaigns early in the year, Barr Nyesom Wike and the PDP claimed to have a development master plan for Rivers State. However, a quick and careful scrutiny revealed that it was a cloning of the now famous Roadmap to Prosperity developed by Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, the APC Governorship Candidate.
“A further confirmation of this became obvious last week when the governor set up a Steering Committee on the Blue Print for Rivers State Government under the Chairmanship of Barr. Nimi Waltson-Jack who explained that his committee was set up to streamline planned government projects. And the question is: did the Wike team really have a developmental programme for the State ab initio as claimed?

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“The seeming confusion the government is presently bedevilled with is occasioned by its lack of understanding of Dr. Dakuku Peterside’s Roadmap to Prosperity which the governor copied so badly.
“The APC has also observed that Governor Nyesom Wike is craftily pursuing the completion of many of the projects initiated, commenced and almost completed by former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in order to claim them as his achievements within his 100 days in office. Most of those projects were at over 90 percent completion stage when the incumbent governor was sworn in. There is nothing wrong with completing projects he met but what is wrong is dishonestly laying total claim to them without acknowledging and giving any dint of credit to the initiator, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi.
“Even if Governor Wike met a cumulative sum of over N7bn when he came into office by May 29, 2015 he rather went to town claiming that he met an empty treasury just to pave way for the spate of loans he is now obtaining from every imaginable bank across Nigeria.
“The APC would like the Rivers State Governor to explain why he is in a hurry to take credit for projects initiated and almost completed by his predecessor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi and other stte and Federal Government agencies, claiming same to be wholly his.”