Nwuke further alleged that Amaechi has since been working secretly and holding meetings with Atiku and others in the “cabal”.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party says a former Minister of Transportation and member of the APC, Rotimi Amaechi, is working secretly for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
In a statement on Monday, spokesman of the PDP campaign council, Ogbonna Nwuke, also alleged that Amaechi was part of the “wicked cabal” punishing Nigerians with the current fuel and naira scarcity.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is not in support of Atiku’s presidential bid while Amaechi has also not publicly declared support for his party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Nwuke further alleged that Amaechi recently reconciled with members of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in the state and has since been working secretly and holding meetings with Atiku and others in the cabal.
The statement partly read, “Nigerians have been forced to go through the eye of the needle in search of money with which to meet their daily needs and feed their families.
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“Unknown to most Nigerians, the vicious cabal that has made it a duty to inflict pain and suffering on the rest of us has done so deliberately in order to influence the outcome of the forthcoming elections.
“As a political party, we have gathered credible intelligence which supports the view that the leader of the APC, Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi, is a member of the cabal that has caused the naira crisis as well as the fuel scarcity and brought untold hardships on ordinary Rivers people and other Nigerians.
“Only recently, he reconciled with members of the presidential campaign council in Rivers State as part of the carefully woven plot. We equally know for certain that he has been holding secret meetings with the PDP presidential candidate.”
Nwuke further said, “We challenge the former Minister of Transportation to deny this fact. Let him deny that he is one of those that are working with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at this time to undermine the genuine aspiration of the people of southern Nigeria.”
He dismissed claims made by the APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, that Governor Nyesom Wike was making moves to join his party through the back door.
The statement stressed that Wike was “going nowhere” and had “no plan today, tomorrow or in the near future” to defect from the PDP to the APC “through the front or back door.”
But in a swift reaction, the Amaechi-led APC in the state described the PDP and Governor Wike as “confused and clueless”.