Although he recently went out to call a truce in the political faceoff with his former boss, now Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, facts have emerged that the Rivers state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has set aside a whopping sum of N100 billion war chest for a media campaign against the Minister.
Impeccable sources, who are well informed of the plot, said the governor has already assembled a team of sworn anti-Amaechi People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and other opposition elements, including Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, the National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party(ZLP), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode former Aviation Minister, Barr Reno Omokri, a former presidential spokesman to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Barr Imo Ikenga, the CUPP Spokesperson to be supported by Barr Emma Okah, the Rivers state Commissioner for Information, with Senator Magnus Abe as coordinator of the project.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze in a press statement circulated to some Media outfits both within and outside Nigeria on Thursday in Port Harcourt the Rivers State capital confirmed that the plot is real, adding that the primary target of the sponsors of the project, represented by the Rivers state governor, is to smear the image of the minister, who recently spearheaded President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential election campaigns, a repeat of an equally successful 2015 elections, which saw to the inglorious end of the 16 year-reign of the PDP over Nigeria.