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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

RIVERS APC APOLOGIZES TO SOYINKA OVER N82 MILLION BIRTHDAY DINNER SCANDAL

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 Posted by Anonymous No Comments


Prof. Wole Soyinka

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has apologized to Nigerian renowned author, Prof. Wole Soyinka on the embarrassment caused him by Governor Nyesom Wike’s allegation that the former Rotimi Amaechi administration spent N82 million on his birthday dinner, which lasted just three hours.

The party's Chairman, Davies Ikanya, through his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Public Affairs, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, described Wike’s allegation as the 'unfortunate ranting of a drowning man.'

Wike, through the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr. Austin Tam-George, last week alleged that N82 million was wasted on hosting the Nobel laureate to a birthday dinner.

The governor threatened to involve the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the matter.

APC said: “On behalf of the good people of Rivers State, we hereby tender an unreserved apology to Prof. Wole Soyinka and assure him that Wike’s vile attempt to link him to an imaginary corruption has failed.

“The accusation is nothing but the ranting of a drowning man looking for whom to pull into the stinking pool. But Wike has over-reached himself this time, because Prof. Soyinka is globally renowned as a man of unimpeachable integrity, who has never been associated with corruption in his over 80 years on earth.

“The fact remains that Wike is currently in a pit full of faeces, looking for whom he will splatter the faeces on; sadly, he remembered our revered Nobel laureate. As rightly observed by Prof. Soyinka, Wike is ready to splatter sewage in all possible and improbable directions.”

The party said the achievements of the Amaechi administration could not be wished away or cancelled through cheap blackmail.

It said Wike’s outbursts did not surprise the party because of the governor’s antecedents as a “controversial politician”.

Rivers APC said: “For Wike to try to disparage a respected personality like Prof. Soyinka in this manner only exposes him as a drowning man looking for any tool to stay afloat. If Wike is sure of his records, why doesn’t he go to court to retrieve the N82 million?"