Ex-nPDP Spokesman Alleges Wike ‘Disbursed N20b’ For Aggressive Campaign Against Amaechi

…Fingered Abe, Fani-Kayode, Reno Omokri, Others As Hatchet Men

A former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New PDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has alleged that Rivers state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike released a whopping sum of ‘N20 billion’ to some of his hatchet men to launch aggressive campaign of calumny against Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi  Amaechi.

Eze who is an APC chieftain in the State,  quoting impeccable sources who are well informed of the alleged plot, said the governor has already assembled a team of sworn anti-Amaechi elements to carry out the campaign of calumny against the Minister in both local, foreign online and conventional newspapers.

In a press statement circulated on Thursday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Eze claimed that the primary target of the sponsors of the ‘project’ was to smear the image of the minister, who spearheaded President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential election campaigns and his reelection.

Eze said that Wike’s bitterness against Amaechi dated back to 2015 when the minister stood firm against the oppressive tendencies of former President Goodluck Jonathan and his eventual ouster.

According to Eze, insiders in the Wike administration in Port Harcourt had been boasting of late that the onslaught against Amaechi this time around would be targeted at damaging his public image, using the media at all levels as well as on multiple platforms.

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“The end result aimed is to make the minister not attractive for a reappointment in President Buhari’s next cabinet, adding that a mobilisation of N20 billion had already been disbursed to the assembled team.

“A whopping sum of N100billion has been set aside for this task aimed at defaming, smearing, disparaging, blackmailing and frustrating Amaechi’s re-nomination into President Buhari’s new cabinet.

“Available facts indicate that the sum of N20Billion has already be released to the committee comprising of some states and national commentators, while further disbursement will be done as the committee progresses in its deadly task.

“Some of the key Committee members so far recruited are Chief Dan Nwanyanwu the National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party, 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 who is to as the Committee’s Secretary/Resource Person  and source provider of most of the dirty documents with Senator Magnus Abe coordinating the multi Billion Naira venture.

“According to the charge to the committee, the committee should use every media platform to make the 2015 plot against Amaechi a child’s play, especially as Wike plans on using some of Amaechi’s former cabinet members to tell false, concocted and distorted stories to the media and impugn the minister’s unblemished integrity and paint a very terrible image of him to members of the public.

He alleged that the team was asked to recruit other Nigerians and foreigners alike to jointly and collaboratively carry out the ‘hatchet job’ of ‘hack Amaechi down’ campaign.

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According to him, their plan is to throw as much dirt at Amaechi and rubbish him with intent to block his reappointment into the Buhari’s cabinet.

The Committee is further charged, he said to sponsor “a satanic documentary” on Amaechi to be aired on PDP friendly television Stations.

“Other propaganda tools planned and to be deployed by the Committee, in the war against Amaechi, include sponsoring publications such as advertorials, columns, editorials and Op-Ed articles in major international, national and local print media; sponsored personality discussion programmes in the electronic media and sponsored special documentaries on television and radio through independent groups and organisations in order to blackmail.

“In carrying out this deadly act against an innocent man, whose only crime was that he supervised the election and reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari both in 2015 and 2019, Senator Abe is busy on daily basis jumping from one TV station to the other, discussing Amaechi while Chief Dan Nwanyanwu is trying to outshine other committee members and Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is busy writing worthless and inciting letters and articles aimed at achieving the aim of the Amaechi-must-be-destroyed committee”.

But when contacted, Simoen Nwakaudu, Wike’s Senior Special Assistant, Electronic Media immediately shrugged off when Eze’s name was mentioned in a telephone conversation saying “abeg” before proceeding to cut the call. All efforts to reach him again proved abortive as his line went busy as of time this report was filed.

BIGPEN ONLINE cannot independently verify this information raised by Eze, who is also Amaechi’s hatchet man but reports say there have been allegations and counter allegations between Amaechi and Wike and their associates since 2015 when the duo infighting became severe.

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