{"id":7953,"date":"2025-06-04T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:39:26","slug":"amaechi-slams-wike-over-political-claims-decries-governance-decline-in-rivers-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/amaechi-slams-wike-over-political-claims-decries-governance-decline-in-rivers-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi Slams Wike Over Political Claims, Decries Governance Decline in Rivers State"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria \u2013<\/strong> Former Minister of Transportation and ex-Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has sharply refuted claims made by his successor, Nyesom Wike, over political appointments and state development, further escalating the rift between the two political rivals.<\/p>\n

Speaking on ARISE News Tuesday, Amaechi dismissed Wike\u2019s alleged assertion that he was denied the post of Commissioner for Finance. “It is not true I flew from Abuja to court and Wike asked to be made finance commissioner,” he said. “He made himself Chief of Staff, Minister, Governor, even Local Government Chairman.”<\/p>\n

Amaechi offered a pointed critique of Wike\u2019s political narrative, calling it revisionist and self-serving. He also emphasized that his own rise to the governorship was not handed to him but won through the courts. \u201cNobody made me governor. The judiciary pronounced me governor,\u201d he said, crediting former Governor Peter Odili and the Nigerian judiciary.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his tenure, Amaechi highlighted major achievements, including building schools modeled after Australian designs, hiring 400 doctors, providing housing and vehicles for rural medical personnel, and launching free education initiatives. He lamented that many of these projects, including a sports village and a mother-and-child hospital, have since been abandoned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat gives me mental disorder,\u201d he said emotionally, blaming current and past administrations for neglecting people-centric infrastructure.<\/p>\n

As Minister of Transportation, Amaechi listed key projects he either initiated or completed, including the Lagos-Ibadan and Kaduna-Abuja railways<\/strong>, Port Harcourt-Kano line, and the Lekki deep sea port. \u201cDon\u2019t give me an assignment if you don\u2019t want it done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On politics, Amaechi distanced himself from both the All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/strong> and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)<\/strong>, citing growing disenchantment. Despite playing a pivotal role in APC’s rise, he criticized the ruling class for “weaponizing poverty” and weakening Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n

He also targeted the current INEC leadership, contrasting its operations with that of Attahiru Jega in 2015. \u201cWhat we have now is state capture using the electoral institution as a machine,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

In a candid moment, Amaechi clarified past statements about his Igbo identity, saying it was a form of political protest, though his community shares cultural and linguistic ties with the Igbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria \u2013 Former Minister of Transportation and ex-Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has sharply refuted claims made by his successor, Nyesom Wike, over political appointments and state development, further escalating the rift between the two political rivals. Speaking on ARISE News Tuesday, Amaechi dismissed Wike\u2019s alleged assertion that he was denied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Amaechi rebukes Wike\u2019s claims, reflects on abandoned Rivers projects, and criticizes Nigeria\u2019s politics, governance, and electoral process.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakamomodu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}