I Left Office Broke, Says Ikuru

Beneficiaries of an empowerment programme sponsored by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Port Harcourt, recently

The immediate past deputy governor of Rivers State, Engr Tele Ikuru, has disclosed that he left office broke as he was not given any parting gift by his former boss, former Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
Ikuru, made this disclosure during a church service organised to thank God for his tenure in office at Andoni Local Government Area of the state.
He stressed that the former governor cut him off and never felt he should be given a parting gift at the end of their dispensation.
The former deputy governor noted that while in office, transparency was his watchword and as such, that informed his decision to return all excess money back to the state’s account after every project was executed.
He averred, “I served the government for seven years and seven months under Amaechi, because I was with Omehia for five months. At the end of the seven years and seven months Amaechi did not think that I deserved any parting gift despite the fact that in the course of this administration, by reason of the office I occupied, I returned several monies to him valued at over N2 billion cash at different times during one assignment or another.
“By reason of my contribution, I also saved not less than N100 billion for the state government over the period. At the end of the seven years and seven months, my boss left me high and dry, nothing and no penny to go home with.”
Ikuru, parted ways with Amaechi when he decamped from the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), few days to the last presidential election.