THE Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for immediate resignation of Governor Nyesom Wike over alleged nuisance.

The party made the call in a statement signed by Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, its state chairman, which berated Wike for failing to keep his vow to “sue the federal government if it fails to return the $43m found in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi Lagos to the Rivers State government within one week.”

The statement said in part: “Wike had claimed that the money belonged to the Rivers State government and was part of the funds allegedly looted by his immediate past predecessor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the current minister of Transportation.”

“It is now over two weeks since Governor Wike issued a seven-day ultimatum to the federal government to return the money to the Rivers State government or be sued accordingly.”

Wike had claimed that he had records, documents and facts to prove that the contentious $43m was kept by Amaechi.

Amaechi has vehemently denied the accusation as one from the pit of hell, while Abayomi Oke, the suspended director general of the National Intelligence Agency, claimed that the money belonged to the agency, thereby exonerating Amaechi.

“Wike’s failure to sue the Federal Government as he vowed to do is the height of his shameful theatrics and repulsive actions that have brought shame and public odium to Rivers State and her people. We, therefore, demand without equivocation, the immediate resignation of Wike as the Governor so as to save the good people of Rivers State further embarrassment,” the APC said.

—  May 15, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT