The All Progressives Congress (APC) Rivers State chapter has berated the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over the allegations made against the wife of the former Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi.
Bellnews reports that Wike had alleged that Amaechi’s wife, Judith received ₦48 billion from the NDDC to train Niger Delta women, adding that the former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami covered her.
However, Darlington Nwauju, the State APC Publicity Secretary loyal to Amaechi, challenged Wike to instigate the release of the NDDC audit report to prove his claims.
He accused the FCT Minister of constantly disrespecting people’s wives and family values by dragging them into the political arena.
Nwauju said Wike’s claim is a diversion from the real issues haunting his various positions in public office.
He dared the Minister to instigate the audit of the NDDC report for Nigerians to see.
The statement reads, “We empathise with Nigerians who have been entertained twice in 48hrs with a cock tail of lies, half truths and the usual double speaks latest being the declaration by FCT Minister Wike that he will resign his position if the Report of the NDDC Audit is released without an indictment on (Dame Judith Amaechi), the wife of his former boss.
“This goes to tell so much of his personality traits. The shame of dragging other people’s wives into the political arena while clothing himself with a feeling of self importance, does confirm the fact that Minister Wike has no respect for family values and this is symptomatic of his light esteem for womanhood and absolute disrespect for his own wife.
“We challenge Minister Wike to instigate the publication of the NDDC Audit Report for Nigerians to see and read for themselves.
“We remind you to also include for publication, the list of awards/cash releases from the NDDC to your cronies and yourself while using your 27 Assembly members to prosecute a selfish political battle against the Government of Rivers State.”
He continued, “While we are more interested in the so-called NDDC Audit Report, which was ab initio a choreographed show targeted only at scaring away other Niger Delta stakeholders from the Commission while solely micromanaging it.”
He noted that these are documents in the archives of both chambers of the National Assembly, with the public hearings held in June and July 2020.
“Finally, we suggest to APC apparatchiks at the National level to consider and adopt Nyesom Wike as Spokesperson of the party at the July 24 2025, NEC meeting.
“Or even adopt him as Presidential Campaign Director General for 2027 elections as metrics to measure his popularity amongst Nigerians and confirm if he is a moral burden on APC Nigeria or not,” Nwauju stated.