Gov Wike hiding Rivers budget for 2yrs, APC alleges

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers
State has called on the state’s governor,
Nyesome Wike to reveal to the people, what the
state has received as allocation in the last two
years of his administration.
Chris Finebone, APC Rivers State Publicity
Secretary, in a statement on Monday called on
Wike to tell “the truth for once”, adding, that the
state government having “successfully
concealed the budgets of Rivers State from the
people for the second year, has also refused to
tell Rivers people that Rivers State last month
received the highest sum of N14.5b Paris Loan
Refund from the Buhari administration”.
According to Finebone, “The All Progressives
Congress, APC, in Rivers State is dismayed that
two years after the 2015 elections, Gov.
Nyesom Wike is still carrying on with his style of
campaigns full of bare-faced lies and
misrepresentation of facts to unsuspecting
Rivers people.
“The governor yesterday (Sunday) told the
Synod of Anglican Church in the house of God
that the administration of Rt. Hon. Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi was receiving between N27b
and N30b monthly federal allocation while the
present federal government has cut the
allocation for the State under his administration.
He blamed the alleged move on attempts to
sabotage his government.

“Firstly, if the Amaechi administration received
anything close to N25b during his 8-year tenure
it must be for less than 6 months in his first
tenure when Nyesom Wike was Chief of Staff to
former Gov. Chibuike Amaechi. That was when
oil price was at its highest and the over 300 oil
wells taken away by the Goodluck Jonathan
government were still property of Rivers State.
“For more than three years of the Amaechi
second tenure after Soku and other oil wells had
been taken and transferred to other states
coupled with dwindling oil prices and production
levels, the government then was receiving less
than N10b monthly allocations up till 2015.
“If Gov. Wike is receiving less than N10b
allocations today, he is in part responsible for
the fate the State is facing. He encouraged the
Jonathan administration to take away Rivers oil
wells believing that he was undoing Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi.
“It would be recalled that the former governor,
Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi had earlier warned
Gov Wike of what he (Wike) is complaining
about today. Now, the chicken has come to
roost, Gov. Wike should deal with it and save us
his display of verbal indiscretion”.
The APC believes that Gov. Nyesom Wike is
merely diverting attention from being
transparent with the finances of Rivers State by
making misleading statements to Rivers people
even in the hallowed house of God.