Wike becoming sole signatory to govt accounts sad, says APC

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State chapter, Chief Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, has described as bad the decision of Governor Nyesom Wike to become the sole signatory to government bank accounts.

 Ikanya said it is one of the signs that Wike was not prepared for governance.

He said: “Apart from dreaming of Amaechi anytime he closes his eyes, which he does at most of the public functions he attends, Wike is busy intimidating banks, permanent secretaries and civil servants in Rivers State and allotting to himself the status of sole signatory to the bank accounts of all the government agencies in the state, including local government councils’ accounts. These steps, apart from being inimical to the peace and progress of Rivers State, have put the state in bad light, both nationally and internationally.”

He described Wike’s one week as governor as a disaster foretold, accusing him of running a motor-park administration.

Ikanya, yesterday in Port Harcourt, through his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Public Affairs, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, expressed optimism that Wike would soon be thrown out by the election petitions tribunal sitting in Abuja, over the massively-rigged April 11 election.

 Rivers APC chairman said: “The first one week of Wike’s administration has vindicated our well-known stand that he is not prepared for governance and will be a disaster if he accidentally finds himself in power, which has now happened, through his unjust declaration as governor by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“What is being witnessed in Rivers State under Wike’s watch makes the heart to bleed. While it is true that Wike never had a programme for Rivers State, we had expected him to attempt to implement the Roadmap for Rivers Development, which he copied from our governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, but he could not, as a poor student, demonstrate an idea of what governance is all about. All that Wike is busy doing since he assumed office is telling the world that Amaechi did this and Amaechi did not do this.

“If the immediate past Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is the sole agenda of Wike, then INEC has done an irrevocable damage to Rivers State and its people, by imposing Wike, who lacks a basic understanding of what it takes to govern a complex state like Rivers.

“If one considers the seriousness which many newly-elected governors in the country have demonstrated by setting out targets to achieve within their first one hundred days in office, then it becomes obvious that a great tragedy has befallen Rivers State in the person of Wike.”

Ikanya also pleaded with the people to bear whatever pains Wike might inflict on them, which he described as temporary.

 He urged the governor to stop chasing shadows and cease his unwarranted attacks on Amaechi.

The Rivers APC chairman warned that any further disparaging attack on Amaechi would no longer be tolerated.