By John Owen Nwachukwu Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has told the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike to ap...
By John Owen Nwachukwu
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has
told the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike to apologise to his predecessor
and former boss, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi.
HURIWA said Wike should apologise to the former Minister of
Transportation for what it described as needless political war of vendetta to
Amaechi, who entrusted key offices to him whilst he (Amaechi) served as
Governor.
On September 14, 2015, Wike had vowed to implement the
recommendations of the judicial commission of inquiry probing the sale of the
State’s valued assets by the Amaechi administration.
Also, the Justice George Omereji seven-man commission of
inquiry concluded its proceeding on the matter over the weekend, warning that
the former Minister and some members of his administration who shunned the
panel should be prepared to bear the consequences of their action.
HURIWA accused the Commission of reaching predetermined conclusions
and indicting Amaechi without hearing his own side of the story.
In a statement by its national Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel
Onwubiko,, HURIWA said it thinks “the politically motivated witch-hunt using
certain forces in the judiciary against Amaechi is the source of the current
political troubles and ‘karma’ afflicting Wike.”
HURIWA also stated that Governor Wike, in the last eight
years, has become anti-workers and dictatorial.
Wike had on Monday said that some aggrieved losers in the
People Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary for 2023 which produced
former State Accountant-General, Sim Fubara as candidate, were leading an Abuja
plot for his downfall.
Wike during activities to celebrate former Governor Peter
Odili at 74, pointed at some of the party leaders who, on his 2021 birthday,
indicated interest to fly the ticket, but failed in the end, as spearheading
the gang up against him.
HURIWA counselled Wike “to put an end to his cantankerous
political warfare against his kinsman- Amaechi and end his administration as a
democrat and not a quarrelsome tyrant.”
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