Former Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Worgu Boms has alleged that his former boss and now Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi lied to president mohammadu buhari that he was dead.
Boms stated this while reacting the removal of his name from the All Progressives Congress (APC) sub-committees for the forthcoming national convention of the party.
He pointed at that the reshuffling of the earlier committee before the ousting of Governor Mai Buni as Chairman, Caretaker and Extra-Ordinary Conference Planning Committee (CECPC) was targeted at him.
The erudite lawyer in a statement said Amaechi is the reason behind the many woes that has bedeviled the party in Rivers State.
The statement reads:
“Erudite Hon. Worgu Boms Esq.
March 9, 2022
Consider:
1. I was in Houston with my then heavily expectant wife, eagerly waiting for the EDD.
I don’t forget this narrative. It’s like it happened yesterday.
That night, late in Houston time, Mary Allagoa called me on phone: ”My o Mine”, which is what Mary calls me fondly, till this day. “your name appeared in an appointment into a River Basin Development Commission”, she told me.
As the day broke the next day, I saw and read it myself in the news with my iPad.
I called Magnus immediately to thank him because before I left Nigeria, he asked Ipally and I to compile lists of our own people for appointments into Boards as he told us he would put us into Boards and we did.
He did not pick my calls. (That’s Magnus style: when he does anything for you, he would not be keen to answer calls from you that period, because he believes you are calling to thank him. At least that is my experience with him!)
Later that day, subsequent news on the subject had it that the appointments would be reviewed because there were names of deceased persons on it!
Immediately, I told my wife that they would want to use that opportunity or excuse to remove my name.
She was aghast at my statement, looking at me with askance, said but I had not died naa, wondering how anyone could do such.
I told her the people fighting us, led by Amaechi, don’t reason that way.
I had hardly finished when Magnus himself called me: “they said you people had died and they’re running around to weed out the names we sent into appointments on that ground”.
Hahahaha!
My wife could not believe what she was hearing, just so soon after I told her that that would happen!
I enquired who could be that wicked. He replied that he did not know who, but that that was the issue on ground.
That the important thing was to show it was a lie and scale through the appointment than worrying about who did it!
I suggested the person behind it. He repeated he did not know.
He directed that we write quickly to the office of the SGF and state it was a lie that we were all living persons!
Have you ever written to say you are alive?
That’s what APC Rivers politics made us do!
Far away from home and from there, I coordinated all of us:
Ipally,
Okwuwolu,
Bazari,
Wuche, etc, and I prepared a Draft and they perfected it and we all signed.
It was written to the SGF.
I still have the handwritten draft!
The rest is history!
Yes! We wrote to the SGF that we had not died.
I have both the handwritten draft, the signed copies and the SGF office delivered copy with the stamp.
2. Victor Giadom with Salisu or so was his name, with the Hon. Minister as their patron, took on the political project of dethroning Chairman Adam.
They latched onto Adam’s local problem, which got intermingle in litigation against Adam.
They then sponsored their own litigation against Adam there in an FCT High Court, leading to Orders in favour of Victor who, on the strength of the Order, started laying claims to being Acting Chairman of the party, contending that Adam had been ousted.
They were appeals and counter appeals and counter Orders.
It was interminable.
Nothing happened. No decisive victory on either side.
Victor having voluntarily relinquished his undisputed Deputy National Secretary position to squabble with Adam over Chairmanship, a vacancy thereon, naturally occurred.
I was sworn into that vacant position on Monday.
On Thursday, following my appearance on the scene, the entire structure was dissolved by the President and all of us, Adam and Victor asked to go home!
The point: I was sworn in, leading to the dissolution!
3. They announced Convention Committees.
In none did my name appear and no one lost his office.
There was no commotion, no redoing of the lists.
Subsequently, they released subcommittee lists, one of which contained the name Worgu Boms.
As soon as that happened, they did what they did not do with the committee Lists – they issued statement that with respect to the subcommittees only, it should be disregarded as a new one would be drawn up as the final List.
I immediately remembered my Houston experience – I told myself, that I was the target.
The next day or so, they published the new list, and in that particular sub committee, only Worgu Boms was removed and thousands more names packed into it.
As it happened when I appeared on the scene at the NWC, few days later, the perpetrators were asked to be dissolved and have been dissolved!
Engaging people with a pathology of unreasoned enmity with truth, is something I don’t like to do.
I avoid them.
Not out of contempt but out of respect for my own respect for facts and to not waste time disputing as if we are quarreling.
Rotimi Amaechi, CON, my former boss, is the Sole Cause of all, all the problems and challenges of the now hobbled APC Rivers and if this conscionable and conscientious position of mine – which I will continue to espouse with publicly known facts – is the cause of action against me, I welcome it and with affection towards all, and malice towards none!
“Unearned suffering has redemptive values!”
