Rivers gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Architect Tonye Cole, has debunked the allegation that his company, Sahara Energy Group, took a whopping sum of $50million from the Rivers State government during the administration of former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
He stated that whatever transpired between Sahara Energy Group and the state government was a contract, pointing out that the contract documents were in the public domain.
He was reacting to an allegation by the state governor Nyesom Wike that Cole’s company took the sum without doing any work for the state.
Speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, Cole, wondered why, for about eight years, Wike has not dragged him to Court if the allegation was true.
He said: “On that allegation, I don’t have much to say about it. There are three things I will say. The first aspect of it is that this is something that is in the public domain.
“You all have the Freedom of Information Act; the contracts and all the documents are available for everyone to go and see. I will just say, go take a look at it, research it yourself and see exactly what has been there.
“I am sure that when you see it, it will also explain why eight years later, no indictment, no Court case and we are still moving around free. So, I won’t say much about that. The documents are there for all to see.”
