The lawmaker representing Rivers South-East Senatorial district, Magnus Abe, on Friday claimed that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi once asked him to bomb the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
He
said this while rubbisshing Amaechi’s claim that he was working with
the State Governor, Nyesom Wike against the interest of the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
In a statement he signed, Abe, who is
a factional governorship candidate of the APC in the state said: “I
have received several calls this morning that the the Minister of
Transportation Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi was on air this morning
alleging that I am being used by Gov Wike to destabilise the APC in
Rivers state.
“It’s unfortunate that the only time we met, at
the office of the national chairman of the APC to try to find some
working solution to crisis in the party, the Hon Minister of
Transportation, Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, spent over two hour
abusing me, and calling me names.
“He did not mention Rivers
state or the APC once in the course of his entire diatribe. The national
chairman could not call him to order or remind him of the purpose for
the meeting that day. Instead the party was bullied into participating
in an illegality.
“Today, rather than discuss how we can come
together despite our differences to mobilise Rivers people to vote for
our party and our President, Minister Amaechi was busy telling Rivers
people that I am being used by Governor Wike.
“Amaechi as
governor worked with me and he is aware that several times he ordered me
to do things that I considered wrong, or incompatible with my
principles, I not only refused to carry out such orders but I always
told him to his face that I would not do them and I never did.
“When
he ordered me to go arrange to bomb the INEC office in Port -Harcourt
after the 2015 elections. I told him to his face that I cannot be part
of any action that would involve violence and death because of politics,
when he ordered the attacks on GDI at the time Governor Wike started
GDI in Rivers state, Gokana was the first local Government in Rivers
state that disobeyed that order, even though there were those hell bent
on carrying out his orders in Gokana at time.
“So Minister Amaechi knows from personal experience that I cannot be used by anybody to do something I do not believe in. His refusal as a leader to accept responsibility for his actions is the reason the party is in this state. The bulk of the fight against Wike in 2015 was in my senatorial district, I led the fight in person from the front even in the face of clear personal danger. It is unfortunate that rather than face the real issues the Minister has continued to engage in name calling, inciting violence, and abusing those that can help to find solutions.”
Source:- Dailypostng
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