Mkpoikana Udoma
Port Harcourt — Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has reiterated that the APC governorship candidate in the state, Tonye Cole, in collusion with the immediate past administration of governor Chibuike Amaechi, sold the state gas turbines and diverted $50million from the state account.
Governor Wike said the APC governorship candidate was now facing criminal charges with the state government demanding from him to refund the $50million, which it wants to use for development projects.
Governor Wike, who disclosed this while speaking at the campaign flag-off rally by the Rivers State PDP Campaign Council in Oyigbo Local Government Area at the weekend.
“Go and bring our money back. We want to use the money to develop the people of Oyigbo, to develop the people of Rivers state,” Wike said.
Meanwhile, hearing on the fresh criminal suit filed against the former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi; the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Patrick Tonye Cole and former commissioner for power, Augusyine Wokocha and two others have suffered setback before a State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt over non prove of service to the defendants.
When the matter which was scheduled for prove of serve was mentioned in court, counsel to Rivers State government, Dem Niger, SAN, informed the court of their inability to effect service to the all the defendants in the matter.
Nwigwe applied for leave to service the defendants through substituted means, which was granted by the Presiding Judge, Justice Chinwendu Nworgu.
Justice Nworgu before adjourning to 2nd of February 2023 for plea, directed the Rivers State government to serve the remaining defendants by publishing the prove of service and hearing notice in two national papers and bring same to court on the next adjourned date.
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