Rotimi Amaechi’s Wife: Rivers APC Slams Wike, Says His Allegations, Shameful

By Adesina Soyooye

Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has come under strong criticisms from a faction of the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, loyal to former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.

The Party said it found Wike’s allegations against former Rivers State First Lady, Dame Judith Amaechi, shameful and embarrassing. Her husband, Amaechi, was former Governor of the State.

Trouble started when Amaechi, during an interview granted Channels Television’s Seun Okinbaloye, anchor of its popular Politics Today programme, said his wife is the financial rock of the family and added: “She is almost an industrialist.”

Wike and Amaechi, once very close political allies, have been very bitter political enemies for years.

Wike, after Amaechi’s interview, because Amaechi referred to him in the interview, on Friday, pounced on Amaechi’s Wife in a bid to debunk Amaechi’s claim about his wife being the bedrock of the family triggered Wike’s anger. While addressing the issue on Friday, Wike said Amaechi’s Wife was no industrialist, a claim Amaechi actually did not quite make. He said Mrs Amaechi was  ripping the Niger Delta Development Commission off the sum of Four billion Naira, every month in the name of training Niger Delta Women.

Wike pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to make public the result of the forensic audit carried out on the NDDC. He revealed that the forensic audit indicted Amaechi’s wife. He said he would resign as a Minister if his claim turned out right. He said it was the former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami who covered up for Mrs Amaechi.

But the Rivers APC has tackled Wike and described his utterances as shameful and irresponsible.

Darlington Nwauju, the State APC Publicity Secretary loyal to Amaechi  challenged Wike for proof. He asked Wike to cause the release of the NDDC audit report to prove his claims.

Nwauju, in a statement, also said Wike has, by his claim,  disrespected women, wives and family values.

The statement reads in part:

“We empathise with Nigerians who have been entertained twice in 48hrs with a cock tail of lies, half truths and the usual double speaks latest being the declaration by FCT Minister Wike that he will resign his position if the Report of the NDDC Audit is released without an indictment on (Dame Judith Amaechi), the wife of his former boss.

“This goes to tell so much of his personality traits. The shame of dragging other people’s wives into the political arena while clothing himself with a feeling of self importance, does confirm the fact that Minister Wike has no respect for family values and this is symptomatic of his light esteem for womanhood and absolute disrespect for his own wife.

“We challenge Minister Wike to instigate the publication of the NDDC Audit Report for Nigerians to see and read for themselves.

“We remind you to also include for publication, the list of awards/cash releases from the NDDC to your cronies and yourself while using your 27 Assembly members to prosecute a selfish political battle against the Government of Rivers State.

“While we are more interested in the so-called NDDC Audit Report, which was ab initio a choreographed show targeted only at scaring away other Niger Delta stakeholders from the Commission while solely micromanaging it.

“These are documents in the archives of both chambers of the National Assembly with the public hearings that held in June and July 2020.

“Finally, we suggest to APC apparatchiks at the National level to consider and adopt Nyesom Wike as Spokesperson of the party at the July 24 2025 NEC meeting.

“Or even adopt him as Presidential Campaign Director General for 2027 elections as metrics to measure his popularity amongst Nigerians and confirm if he is a moral burden on APC Nigeria or not.”