Wike was known as the spokesman for Rivers State House of Assembly Martin Amaewhule in Port Harcourt during the Thanksgiving service on Sunday. A Thanksgiving service was held at the Holy Spirit Church, Port Harcourt, in memory of Amawuor. You know, until someone called me last night and showed me something someone said on social media. I said, until I read it, I won’t say anything. This morning I read it in the National Newspaper, I read it in the Daily Independent, I read in the Vanguard what our former hostess said. Unfortunately, this man is supposed to be an elder statesman, the man we call our father. What he said, he said the current governor was able to stop one man, a politician who wanted to turn Rivers State into his personal property.
When I was governor, Odili praised me for High Prevens, don’t you know? He even said, realistically, no governor combined could do what I did, isn’t that correct? Let me tell you, in 2007, when he left office, he could not get close to power because Amaechi was the governor at that time and he was gone. Just like someone said God will use someone to bring someone out. When I became governor in 2015, I wouldn’t use the word “resurrection,” but I brought him back to reality. You can ask Ambassador Akawor, he is the ambassador of South Korea, but for me Odili left and I had to rescue him, but for us there is nothing called Pamo University. I have to make sure that we reach an agreement that Rivers State will retain 100 sons and daughters in every session. The payment is not less than N5M per semester for 7 years. Most of them were attacking me at that time, why don’t we get a Rivers State University. He was living somewhere in there when I rescued him. What can I expect from such a person now? What can he give me now? You say one thing here and another somewhere else. I had to personally call Julius Berger to build him a mansion. He called all Nigerians to thank Vic. Wike did far enough to see the mansion he built for my wife and I that he brought them up to the building, come and see, come and see. Do you have to always be a trader? As a former governor for 8 years, what are you looking for? Now, all of us have just been a governor for a year and the same Odili has said that he has beaten the record of all previous governors before him.
When I was there, the same Odili said, I had beaten the record of all the governors before me, including himself, what would we say he did in eight years anyway? If Odili has been in the office for 8 years and someone takes a year and beats his record, that means he has no record to beat. Is this what an elder statesman is known for? Why not do a Christmas carol, collect what is to be collected, and leave me alone. I knew everything he had been doing, but I kept quiet. He said “personal property” and he now owns “personal property”. His wife is president of the council, his daughter is a commissioner, his other daughter is a judge, and he is now the governor. So, who now treats the state as “private property”? I’m sure if he’s not careful, if there are any loopholes, he could even arrange the governor’s marriage. I can tell you that because at this level I don’t think a man can lower himself to this level after forgetting everything he has said in the past. I’m named after you, I’m named after your wife, what didn’t I do? You said we shouldn’t be part of the government, we left, we were governing, we didn’t cry. You’ve taken away the rally money, they didn’t die of hunger and they won’t die of hunger. I am focused on working in Abuja and none of this will bring you to my level. Was he there when I was plotting who was going to be governor? Even when this governor was chosen, he complained about how we were going to bring this guy who couldn’t be tolerated in the public. But today, he’s doing Christmas carols for him. Even though I was the governor, he did Christmas carols for me just to hang out with. Governor for 8 years you were not satisfied, now he will be. For 6 months the Omeas were governors and they did not speak. I brought the Omeas to his house and reconciled them. If you don’t know what to do, allow others who know what to do without distraction. If I told you how his daughter became a commissioner you would be shocked. The recommendation was his nephew, his brother’s son. He himself and his wife came to me and asked us to choose Ada. I thought he was going to allow his nephew whose father had just died and now he was the father, but no, he gave it to his daughter. When a person lowers themselves to this level, we also tell the public who you are. This is a guy who says he wants to run for president, and he doesn’t have the ball. He came out, ran away, said Obasanjo said no, he ran away, ordinary party politics, he ran away. Because of him, I never invited Obasanjo to the Rivers State commission project because I felt it would be humiliating for him to know the relationship. When I was governor, my photos were everywhere in his home, in the bedrooms, in the kitchen, in all dining rooms, and even in the toilets, but today, all the photos are gone. They are the ones looking for trouble in me, I am relaxed and whatever prompts him to say what he says, everything he sees, he should accept.
