In a press conference with journalists, Governor Nyesom Wike stated that before the recently concluded governor’s race in Rivers, his predecessor, former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, promised to return to Igbos in the state the homes and other property they lost during the Biafran war in exchange for their support of the APC candidate, Tonye Cole, to win the race.
Governor Wike claims that after Amaechi’s promise to Igbos in Rivers, he met with them and advised them to question Amaechi about why he failed to give them their properties back while he was the state’s governor. He claimed he was successful in persuading the Igbos that Amaechi’s pledge to them was false….. Continue Reading
Governor Wike said the following in a video posted to YouTube by Channels TV at around 11:00 minutes in:
All I did was to counter, to tell Igbos it is a lie. He was Governor for eight years why didn’t he remember you? Not everybody will understand this, I went back to them and told them ‘ask him, you were Governor for eight years why didn’t you remember these abandoned properties? You are now telling us that the person you are bringing will do it meanwhile while you were there you didn’t do it, does it makes sense? And they now realized that this is very deceitful, we have lived in peace with them”…
