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In reaction to the ongoing effort to probe Chibuike Ameachi, immediate past governor of Rivers state, by Nyesom Wike, the current governor, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says the former governor cannot be pulled down under the smokescreen of a probe.

Wike had accused Amaechi of depleting the treasury before his exit‎, but the former governor claimed that he left about N7.5 billion in cash for the present Rivers government.

Speaking with journalists at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt on Friday, Peter Odike, deputy chairman of APC Rivers state‎, said the plan of Amaechi’s traducers was to force the hand of President Muhammadu Buhari to exclude him from his cabinet, which is expected to be constituted in September.

“I am calling on the elders, young men and women of Rivers state and indeed  the Niger Delta region to rise in union and to tell these few actors represented by the current occupants of the Brick House, especially PDP in the state, that the sound of their drums is of war,” he said.

“They want to shut out Amaechi out of political space but they can’t because their plans are evil. Their actions are becoming inimical to the progress in Rivers State. They are not happy that Amaechi fought the political battle of his life to ensure Buhari’s victory at the poll.

“We therefore enjoin the good people of Rivers State to discountenance this ill-motivated selfish and devilish campaign of calumny against the great son of Niger Delta. Rivers people should refuse to be part of any gang-up geared toward destroying what Amaechi has built in the state.”