APC blames 3 PDP governors for judges’ allegations against Amaechi
Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt.
The All Progressive Congress, APC, in Rivers State has accused three Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors of masterminding the allegations against the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, by Justice Inyang Okoro and Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court.
The APC said in a press statement in Port Harcourt Thursday that the governors of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa and Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, as well as the Senator Godswill Akpabio, were involved in the Supreme Court Justices’ allegations against Amaechi.
The press statement signed by the Rivers State APC Chairman, Chief Davies Ikanya, alleged that the 4 PDP members were the biggest spenders “who induced and bribed the Supreme Court Justices with hefty sums of money to get favourable judgements. They are said to be the major sources of the money, wealth and properties that has been traced by the DSS to Justices Okoro and Ngwuta,” he claimed.
He said that the PDP bigwigs advised the justices to drag Amaechi into their arrest and investigation by the DSS. He added: “They believe doing so would muddle the waters, divert the media and public attention from the corruption allegations against them and make the whole arrest and investigations look like a political vendetta against the justices. Our findings indicate that they told the justices that the Buhari government is after them, wants to bring them down, and that they must drag Amaechi down as well.
“They deceived the justices to think and believe that Amaechi is the one behind their travails because of some state governorship electoral matters the apex court handled, that the All Progressives Congress APC) lost. Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Delta governorship election appeals were cited to hoodwink Justices Okoro and Ngwuta into believing that Amaechi orchestrated their arrest and investigation.”
The APC chairman stated that some media reports had exposed the scandal and the link between Justices Okoro and Ngwuta of the apex court and the four PDP leaders
He further stated that Amaechi was targeted because the PDP saw him as a big threat to their political ambitions and calculations ahead of 2019 elections. “All four are from the South-South region, just like Amaechi. They are scared of Amaechi, his closeness to President Muhammadu Buhari and they are afraid that Amaechi’s continual towering presence in the Buhari administration would truncate their plans and calculations for 2019,” he said.
