Wike swore with his children never to betray me, says Amaechi

Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has reiterated that the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, who was his former Chief of Staff has failed the integrity test where he swore with the names of his children never to betray him.

Amaechi disclosed this when his kinsmen and prominent Ikwerre traditional rulers visited him at Government House, Port Harcourt on Friday, under the auspices of the Supreme Council of Ikwerre Traditional Rulers.

The governor recalled that in order to convince him to forward his name as ministerial nominee to President Jonathan, Wike had sworn with his own children that he would never betray him.

“I told my friends who are governors, I said when you will be betrayed at the end of 2015, you will almost be in a state of coma because you have not experienced it. Your speech did mention the former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives (Austin Opara). Your speech also mentioned the Minister of State for Education (Nyesom Wike).

The Minister of State for Education swore with the names of his children that he would never betray me, that I should put his name forward for minister. I say, he swore with the names of his children.

“No matter the condition, I will never swear with the names of my children, nothing will make me swear with the names of my children. But if I make the mistake of swearing with the names of my children, nothing outside God will make me betray you. Not because any harm will befall the children. It is the honour you bestow on those children that should make you not to betray whatever word you have given to anybody.

“In fact, if you listen very well, the Minister of State for Education was saying that I wasn’t the person who nominated him until a Rivers delegation went to see the President and the president said, I don’t even know the man (Wike). It was Amaechi that brought him. I stopped him but Amaechiinsisted that I must take him (Wike).’  There are not too many elite withcharacter, not too many. In their quest for power and their desire to accumulate wealth, they can sell their mother.”

Amaechi noted that history would judge those who say one thing and do another as he equally recounted how he had helped persons, only to  be betrayed by these same persons.

Amaechi said that his policies in government have been to develop all parts of the state.

“I made sure that I prefer to be called a Rivers governor, not an Ikwerre governor, so I made sure that if we took a road to Ikwerre, we would take it to Gokana.”