Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has accused Governorship hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Arch. Tonye Cole of receiving the sum of $50 million from the Rivers State Government when Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi was governor of the state.
Wike, made the allegation during a Thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Port Harcourt, today.
According to him, Tonye Cole will have to answer what happened to the $50 million his Sahara Energy Company received through the Access Bank from the Rivers State government.
He stated that no person will succeed in becoming the next governor of the state if the intention is to make the State a “personal estate.”
Part of his statement reads,
He (Cole) must account for the $50million they took from our account. Whoever knows him should tell him. $50million was taken from Rivers State Access Bank account and transferred to Sahara Energy account. And I asked them what is the job you people did for Rivers state? Can I see the contract paper, did you people loan us money?”
You think you can sell this state. The former governor think that he can bring his business partner, after you have sold all our gas turbines, Olympia hotel, collected our $50million cash.”
People think we will sit here and you will sell our state. Nobody can sell this state. Nobody can make this state his personal estate. A governor must be somebody who wants to develop this state, not somebody who wants to put the state in his pocket.
