Rivers Governor, Wike Looted Over 100bn As Minister of Education - APC Makes New Allegation

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has come under attacks from the All Progressive Congress as new allegations of looting is flung at him.

 

Nyesom Wike

 

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, made the allegation that the monumental fraud perpetrated by the state Governor, Nyesom Wike when he was the Minister of Education far outweighs the much-publicised $2.1 billion arms loot by former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).

 

Daily Post reports that the allegation was contained in a statement signed by the party’s state Chairman, Davis Ikanya in Port Harcourt, the state capital yesterday.

 

The party made the allegation in line with claims of fraudulent transactions levelled against Wike by the Peoples Coalition Against Corruption, PCAC.

 

PCAC had alleged that the state governor diverted funds from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, for private use, swindled the Universal Basic Education Fund of more than N100bn, and also mismanaged over N20 billion of the ministry of education budgets in the four years that he was in charge of the ministry. Wike has, however, denied this.

 

But in the statement, Ikanya, described PCAC’s revelations as “a tip of the iceberg,” as Wike did committed much more fraud.

 

The statement reads, “Based on what we know of Chief Wike’s activities in government in the past few years, we make bold to say that these revelations by the Peoples Coalition Against Corruption represent a small fraction of Wike’s corrupt acts,

“As a matter of fact, Wikegate, if we may call it that, will make Dasukigate look like a child’s play when the full details are made known.”

 

The party appealed to the presidency and relevant federal government agencies to launch, without delay, “a full-scale investigation into Wike’s fraudulent activities as a minster and now as a governor with a view to recovery public funds lost in the process.

“Rivers APC also calls for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the staff of NDDC that aided Wike in his looting spree, Rivers State Government, CICO, RCC, as well as the bank officials that colluded to swindle Rivers State and Nigeria,

“As we commend and congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari for his drive to eradicate or reduce corruption to the barest level possible in our nation’s polity, we wish to encourage him not to relent no matter the odds and the efforts of corrupt Nigerians to fight it back. We totally agree with him that if we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill us as a nation.”