THE governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, Dr. Dakuku
Peterside, has accused the Rivers State Government of dishonesty.
Peterside specifically said that the
state government under Governor Nyesom Wike was hoodwinking the people
of the state by telling the people that he (Wike) met an empty treasury.
He observed that the new administration
had yet to make any policy statement six weeks after its inception and
added that the situation suggested that the people had a rudderless
state.
Apparently making reference to Wike’s
alleged recovering of government property from former aides of the
ex-governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Peterside said the current governor was
embarking on a “mindless pursuit of vendetta against individuals.”
“Too
much dishonesty on the path of the government to hoodwink Rivers
people, for instance, allegations of empty coffers are spurious tale as
even Mr. Wike by his own admission has been announcing various funds
that he located in different government accounts.
“His false claim of using Julius Berger
for the refilling of pot holes when what he has been using are local
contractors who they are paying peanuts. His use of the Berger name was
simply a red herring to enable him to loot public funds.
“Six weeks after assuming office, the
government has not made one single policy statement, rather it appointed
the Nimi Walson Jack committee to design a blueprint for the running of
government after it had taken off. A move that suggests we have the
case of a rudderless state manned by persons whose only bond to the
state is to siphon our resources.
Reacting, the Special Adviser to the
Governor on Media and Publicity, Sir Opunabo Inko-Tariah, disagreed with
Peterside, maintaining that Wike did not hoodwink the people of the
state.
Inko-Tariah explained that contractors
had gone back to sites to continue most projects abandoned by the
immediate past administration on the directive of the current
administration.
“I am a little bit startled that Dakuku
Peterside could make such a sweeping statement against the current
administration. Look at the roads, the governor is working on them. Most
of these projects were abandoned by the Amaechi administration,
Governor Wike decided to work on them. Then who is hoodwinking the
people?”
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