By: Admin
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, Monday, alleged that the minister of transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is responsible for the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Oyigbo Local Government Area.
Nine security officers which include five soldiers and four police officers were killed while three police stations were burnt during the #ENDSARS protest in the area.
However, residents of the area accused soldiers of wanton human right abuses, extra-judicial killings and destruction of properties.
The residents also blamed Wike for inviting the soldiers to kill them after the crippling curfew was imposed.
But reacting to the accusations on a TV programme in Port Harcourt, Wike blamed his successor for the activities of the group in the LGA, adding that the minister empowered the group to dare him.
According to him, “I know who is doing all these. I know who told them to rise to test Wike. It is the minister of transport, everyone knows that”.
When asked why Amaechi would do that, he said, “Why would he not do that? He thinks that harassing me politically will bring me down. People know that. Everyone knows that. It is not hidden. I cannot change my identity.
“If the presidency is zoned to the South-East, I will support them very well. But that does not mean to say that I am from that area”.
He said that Amaechi is supporting the group because he wants to run for the office of president as an Igbo Man.
