The RIVERS State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike,
said on Sunday that he would stay away from the
Government House in Port Harcourt for the next
three months as a result of the vandalisation of the
property in the place by the immediate past
administration.
Wike, who spoke at the post-inauguration
thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt, disclosed
that all the vehicles in the Government House had
been taken away.
The governor disclosed that he noticed that the
bullet proof doors, furniture, cars, crested carpets,
curtains and windows were not left behind by the
former administration.
Wike explained that he was able to observe the
missing items during an inspection of the
Government House after he was sworn in as the
state’s chief executive.
He said, “As I speak with you, everything has been
vandalised. I will not enter the Government House
in the next two or three months. There is no vehicle
in Government House, not even one. Yet the former
governor (Rotimi Amaechi) talks about corruption.”
The governor assured the people that he would not
disappoint them and the Peoples Democratic Party.
In his remark, the Senate President, David Mark,
expressed optimism that the PDP would return to
power at the federal level in 2019 as Nigerians
would yearn for the party after four years of the APC
regime.
Mark noted that most of the party’s achievements
would be glaring to Nigerians within a short period.
The post inauguration thanksgiving service
reception was attended by Deputy Senate President
Ike Ekweremadu, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, Senator Hope
Uzodinma, Senators-elect from the South-South
and South-East, Acting National Chairman of the
PDP, Uche Secondus and members of the National
Working Committee of the PDP.
Meanwhile, the former Chief of Staff, Government
House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, has
described Wike’s claim that the facility was
vandalised by the Amaechi administration as false.
Okocha maintained that the property in the
Government House were intact before the
immediate past administration left.