Don’t appoint Amaechi minister, Wike tells Buhari

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to appoint Rotimi Amaechi as minister if he wants his fight against corruption to be looked upon with credibility.

President Buhari revealed last week in an article published in the Washington Post that he would announce members of his cabinet in September.

Amaechi was among the top government dignitaries that accompanied Buhari to last week’s state visit to the United States.

In a statement on Sunday signed by Wike’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, the governor, who described Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign as “selective” and “drawing a cocktail of reaction”, said it would be “dismissed as laughable” if Amaechi makes the ministerial list.

Wike claimed Amaechi was the most corrupt government official and asked the president to probe the ex-governor to lend credibility to his fight against corruption.

“If Buhari is sincere in his fight against corruption, let him probe the Amaechi’s government and he will discover that there cannot be a government official that is more corrupt than Amaechi.”