Mr Amaechi is said to have made the remark while soliciting votes for the APC ahead of Saturday’s polls.
Mr Ameachi said his remark at a meeting with leaders of the Igbo community in the state was “deliberately twisted by Governor Nyesom Wike” whom he said is known for trading “divisive fake news.”how the Rivers State Government berated Mr Ameachi, accusing him of “attempting to instigate hostility between Igbos and the people of the state over a legally foreclosed issue of abandoned property of non-indigenes.
“We have observed that unscrupulous and ill-advised elements have twisted and misrepresented the speech made by Mr Amaechi during his stakeholders meeting with Igbos in Rivers State last week. “All of us who are here know that when I became Governor, the first thing I said to the Igbos was ‘I am sorry, I am sorry on abandoned property. I said, if I were governor when they were doing abandoned property, I would not accept. So in my speech to the Igbos , I said I am sorry on behalf of Rivers State.”
Chris Finebone, commissioner for information in the state, when contacted, referred PREMIUM TIMES to a publication in Punch newspaper where the said statement made by Mr Amaechi was alsoAccording to the Sun newspaper, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Zacchaeus Adangor, had told reporters at the end of the State Executive Council that the issue of abandoned property in the state, is “essentially and palpably one of law.
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