Probe Wike's tenure as supervising minister of Education - Rivers APC

The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressive Congress as call on the Federal Government to probe the former Supervising Minister of Education and the current governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike. The APC speaks through its state Chairman , Dr. Davies Ikanya, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Sunday. Read below.....

“The whereabouts of the 15 UBEC Toyota Hilux buses that Chief Wike commandeered for his governorship election campaign, which he has refused to return to the Federal Ministry of Education, thereby hampering official activities in the Commission;

“The over N180bn UBEC funds allegedly looted by Chief Wike and Dame Patience Jonathan, through fraudulent contracts for the supply of textbooks to higher institutions. (The textbooks were never supplied);


“The recent fire that razed down only the Basic Education Section of the Federal Ministry of Education building in Abuja containing relevant indicting documents about Wike’s activities while he held sway as the Supervising Minister of Education.

“We should unravel why the fire incident took place and why only this section was burnt. Was it for the sole purpose of covering up the illegal transactions of the immediate past Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike?

“The burnt documents included the ones for the contracts Wike awarded to himself and his cronies as a conduit to siphon public funds. We want the Buhari administration to, as a matter of urgency, look into this now that he wants to recover looted funds.”

Commending the move by the President to recover the funds looted from the country’s coffers, Ikanya explained that the impending recovery of looted funds in the country would be the beginning of the journey towards building an ideal nation.

“The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari in his bid to investigate and recover the billions of naira looted by the immediate past administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

“We received with great joy news of the resolution by President Buhari to go after those who stole Nigeria blind and virtually grounded the country’s economy. For six years, we shouted ourselves hoarse that Jonathan’s administration was the most corrupt in the history of this nation, and sadly nobody believed us.

“But the recent revelations have proved us right. If not by the grace of God and the resolve of Nigerians to vote out that visionless government, the ship of our nation would have been grounded by now,” he said.