Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described his predecessor and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as “a total failure”.
Wike said Amaechi failed to execute any meaningful project in Rivers State in seven years he served as a minister.
The governor said this at the inauguration of the reconstructed former Riv Bank Insurance building in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Monday.
Governor Wike, who spoke in reaction to comments by Amaechi that the Rivers State Government failed to give state burial to an Elder statesman and former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Graham Douglas, who was buried last weekend, challenged the former minister to show the people of the state what he did for them when he was a minister.
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He said: “Tell Rivers State people, as Minister of Transportation, what did you do for your people?
“Seven good years, all you were interested in was doing business with CCECC. Standard guage and the other gauge up till now we have not seen anyone from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri.
“You’re not happy that the state did not give Alabo Graham Douglas a state burial. Why would I do that when I saw that you people have brought politics to the man’s burial?
“Please this should be the last time you will talk about this state because you’re a total failure as far as this state is concerned.
“Even what is supposed to come to us you blocked it. Do you think you will not finish as a minister? You have left, I hear he can’t even enter the villa now,” Wike stated.
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