Why I"m Probing Amaechi - Wike

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, has explained the  probe of the Rotimi Amaechi administration.

He said the essence of the probe was to throw light on some areas.The governor insisted that it was not meant to witch-hunt anybody.

Wike yesterday said in Abuja  that the recommendation of the probe panel would determine the cause of action to be taken against Amaechi.

He, however, did not rule out handing over the findings to anti-graft agencies.

He said: “The essence of the judicial commission does not have to do with witch-haunting anybody, but to understand things we could not have understood.

“ If he had worked with the transition  committee we set up, the committee would have asked one or two questions.  No transition committee was set up by government (Amaechi’s administration).

“It is only our state that never had any transition committee. We set up our own transition committee. It made every communication;.it wrote. They did not cooperate with it.”

Wike also claimed that his predecessor was only trying to use the media to divert attention from the probe panel.

His words:  “He (Amaechi) said he would use all constitutional and legal means.  The  commission is not an  unconstitutional commission. It is a constitutional and legal commission.

“Nobody has been indicted. We only ask  them to look into  matters and ask one or two questions.”

Wike recalled that his predecessor also set up probe panels and was never accused of  witch-hunting.

The governor also debunked the report making the rounds that he was handed a handover note. He said:  “Let us start from the national level. When Jonathan was leaving, did he just handover just the villa?. Did he not handover the whole government structure;. from one ministry to the other?.”

Wike said the permanent secretary of the Government House never gave him a handover note.

Why I"m Probing Amaechi - Wike