NYESOM WIKE: “AMAECHI MADE ME MINISTER TO REDUCE MY INFLUENCE”

Barrister Nyesom Wike, immediate-past Minister of State for Education, on Thursday alleged that the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, made him a minister in order to reduce his influence in the state. Wike, who is seeking to become the next governor of the state, spoke in an African Independent Television interview said, “Amaechi was told that if he wanted to have a successor, without anybody disturbing him, there was the need to push me away from Rivers State, to go and be a minister, for my influence in the state to be reduced. It was not a promotion for me, rather it was a strategy to make me less influential and to lose base.

“The governor never discussed with me that he was nominating me for a ministerial appointment. Ten persons were nominated to be minister from Rivers State. I was the second person on the list. Atedo Peterside was the first person on the list. Tonye Cole was the third person. Amaechi said he was going to scrap the office of Chief of Staff and I said I was no longer going to occupy it again. I was the Director-General of his campaign organisation in 2011 and having seen what had happened, it would no longer be conducive for me to work in an environment of hostility”.

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