Wike Criticizes Amaechi for Not Supporting Peter Obi in “You Think You Are Smart”

The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, mocked Rotimi Amaechi on Friday (today) for allegedly supporting Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over Peter Obi of the Labour Party, a member of his tribe, in the recently concluded presidential election.
According to Naija News, Wike was responding to the former minister’s assertion that he has a deep love for the Igbo people.

Amaechi claimed that he has Igbo blood running through his veins while campaigning for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate this past week in the Diobu neighborhood of Port Harcourt.

He claimed that while he was the State’s Governor, his administration favored the Igbo. Amaechi also criticized Governor Wike’s current leadership in Rivers State, claiming that he was not fair enough to Igbos.

You Consider Yourself Smart
However, in a swift response, Wike questioned how the former governor of Rivers State could claim to love the Igbo and yet refuse to meet with Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, while addressing PDP supporters during a campaign rally prior to the 2023 governorship and State Assembly elections in the State.

You believe yourself to be intelligent, but you are not. Despite claiming to love the Igbo, you backed Atiku. You declined to back Obi. You were supposed to support the Igbos even though you didn’t know them.

“How long have you been a minister, and what have you done for the Igbo? How do you help the Igbo? When he ran for president, Amaechi advocated for the South to gain power, according to Wike.

“After losing, he stopped believing in that and declared that power should go to the North. So that they can give him when the North is finished, Wike continued.

According to report, Amaechi ran in the APC presidential primary election in May 2022 but lost the nomination along with other candidates to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State.