APC accuses Wike of squandering N150m on needless projects

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday claimed that the State Governor, Barr Nyeson Wike has borrowed a whopping sum of N150 million since he assumed office on May 29, last year without any tangible achievement to show for all these funds.
Barrister Wike is an elected Governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Rivers’ APC, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, lamented that the Governor has squandered these funds on things that have little or nothing to do with the good of the State and its people.
The party said that instead of paying civil servants, pensioners and contractors, the Governor has chosen to waste the scarce resources on hosting all manner of conferences, sponsoring PDP candidates running for election in other states; hosting failed PDP conventions; promotion of bloodbath, insecurity and associated evils in the State and bribing people everywhere.
Barrister Wike, the APC added, “prefers spending the money he should use to pay salaries and uplift the lives of Rivers state people and prefers to flex muscles with Abuja in his bid to be seen as the PDP leader in the country.”
Continuing, the Rivers’ APC said, “We as a political party truly sympathise with Rivers civil servants, pensioners and contractors over their current travails.
“However, we wish to disagree with insinuations in some quarters in the state that President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC-led Federal Government are responsible for this unfortunate situation.
“The truth is that Governor Wike and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are solely responsible for the woes of Rivers’ workers, retires and contractors, by refusing to pay them for the past eight months”, it said.
The party noted that Rivers State presently collects the highest revenue from the Federation Account each month. It added, “Apart from this, Rivers generates the highest Internal Revenue after Lagos and Kano states”.
The party thus advised the people of the state to stop suffering in silence but to continuously demand good governance from “the ill-prepared Wike administration and to hold it fully responsible for the monumental suffering which he has inflicted on the people of the state since he bulldozed his way into the Government House”.
The APC further advised the people of the state that the rerun election coming up on 10th December, 2016 “is an appropriate opportunity for the Rivers State people to express their anger on this misfortune and ill-prepared administration of Chief Nyesom Wike by voting against PDP candidates”.