The Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bro. Felix Obuah says that the party views the comments made by the defeated candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 Governorship Election in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, against Governor Nyesom Wike regarding the unclaimed $43million saga, as the ranting of a psychopath, occasioned by convulsive attacks that come in gasps as a result of his indulgence in cultism.
Obuah, in a statement, said the party could have ordinarily ignored Dakuku’s vituperations against Wike but chose to respond so that Rivers people would understand the underlying motive of Dakuku’s ill-motivated action.
Believing that Rivers people are better informed and too sophisticated to be fooled by Dakuku’s lies against Wike, Obuah stated that one reason behind Dakuku’s sustained insults was the humiliation he suffered at the 2015 polls, adding that the defeated politician was still nursing the wound of the loss two years after.
Obuah regretted that rather than provide facts to show that the house in question does not belong to Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi or that the money found therein were not part of proceeds Rivers State Government realized from sale of its gas turbines, Dakuku was busy regaling in concocted lies to please his master.
“If Dakuku Peterside thinks that the only way to showcase his loyalty to Amaechi is to launch insults against Wike, then he may have lost his senses because even his master, has a lot of respect for Wike for outclassing him in leadership and achievements. Good a thing, while he is busy unleashing insults against Wike, the governor is busy executing mind-blowing projects,” Obuah declared.
“The PDP, however, is not surprised at these unsubstantiated actions of Dakuku. What else do you expect from a man who was a cultist and carried on in a most horrendous and horrific manner! He needs psychiatric treatment,” Obuah stated.
Obuah also berated Dakuku Peterside over his comments that Wike is a ‘self-styled Mr. Project’, stating that the title was given to the governor by no less a personality than the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, who during his recent visit to the state, was stunned at the magnitude and quality of projects executed and commissioned by Wike.
Similarly,  the PDP has said that the Press Release issued by the  All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Rivers State  in reaction to the comment of the  Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, that the  $43.3 million recovered in a private residence in Ikoyi, Lagos State, belongs to Rivers State Government and should be returned to the state,  has given the party away as interlopers in the matter.
This was the position of former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House,  Chief Emeh Glory Emeh, who was speaking  with newsmen in Port Harcourt last Monday. Emeh maintained that the APC was hasty in intruding  into what can be described as the domestic freedom of an individual when the APC was not an accused in the matter.
Hear him: “ I had resisted making comments on this matter since six days ago. Journalists continue to harass my phone, demanding my opinion on the discovery of a whopping $43million,  as well as money in other currencies in a private residence in Lagos.
“My resistance is based on the fact that the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike was unequivocal on the fact that the money belongs to Rivers State, and as an advocate for the good people of the State he is better placed and more positioned to speak on our behalf which he has done, and the good people of Rivers State are solidly behind him.
“But I am compelled to respond to your telephone calls on this when my  attention was drawn  to the Press Release signed by APC Chairman in Rivers State, Dr Davies Ikanya,  which gave the impression that he was reacting to the subject matter. As a lawyer, I felt concerned and amazed that persons or group of persons, or organisations who are not a party to a matter can dabble into it. In law, such  person or persons will be  seen as an interloper, or put it the other way, a busy body.
“In addition, I became more curious when I also read a reaction from both the Director General of NIMASA,  Dakuku Peterside,  and APC Publicity Secretary in Rivers State, Chris Finebone,   defending the character alleged to be involved in the $43 million saga. This is because,  it is not possible, no matter how close one may be to a member of a party, club or association that you will know every thing about the fellow, including his private and business life.One continues to wonder why it is difficult for Amaechi to speak out, at least, to save both his time and  speculations from the public than to allow these interlopers to fall over each other for what they don’t have idea about except they can tell that they do.
“It can amount to attempt to cover up by  these persons or bodies who cannot claim to have sufficient information on the subject matter under discussion,  to jump into conclusion as per the ownership of the funds.
He clarified that Wike’s allegation was based on the fact that the money is from the sale of Rivers State owned gas turbines at over $309 million and that the said money was found in the house alleged to belong to the former Governor of Rivers state, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, presently minister of transportation.
Emeh further stressed Wike’s request that the Federal Government should set up an inquiry to unravel who owns the building or flat where the money was found, and who is the tenant including the relationship between the tenant and the landlord.
“ Governor Wike believes that it is only when these are done that the shady transaction and recovery would be clear to Nigerians.
“In a natural progression, therefore,  it would appear that the only person who has both the legal, moral and equitable responsibility to throw more light on this is the accused himself, who in this case is Rt.  Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, and certainly  not the party, not Dakuku  Peterside; not Chris Finebone; and not any other person for that matter,  as any of these persons would be regarded as an interloper.  That is my belief, and this certainly is not debatable”, the former commissioner for transport in Rivers State, concluded.