Rivers State Governor of Nigeria denies funding Ghana’s NDC
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
The Governor of Rivers State of Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi has vehemently challenged publishers of the
Pointblank.newscom news website to assist any independent
investigative body with proof that the Governor funded the
National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) campaign for Elections
2008 through Ex-President Jerry Rawlings.
The Senior Media Advisor to the Governor, Mr. David Iyofor,
described the allegations as ‘arrant nonsense’ and a figment
of the imagination of a mischievous writer, Iyofor who spoke
to the media in Accra yesterday to deny the allegations,
said he was surprised the spurious allegations elicited so
much publicity in the Ghanaian media when nobody back in
Nigeria is talking about it because of its obvious
unreliability.
Last week, the Ghanaian media were saturatied
with the malicious publication originated by the news blog
which imputed criminal conduct on the part of the Governor
and suggested he had misappropriated state funds, including
doling out a $3.5 million cheque to former President
Rawlings to help the NDC prosecute its electoral campaign,
last year.
According to him, since the publication, in furtherance of
its malicious intentions, quoted a so-called cheque for
former President Rawlings, the writers should be patriotic
enough to put out which bank was to honour the check to help
any persons or body interested in seeking the truth, to
pursue the matter.
“It is complete rubbish!,” he said, adding , “It was no
story at all.
Mr. Iyofor, who bore copies of the Governor’s signed denials
to the allegations, which also detailed his discomfiture and
the embarrassment the publication has caused him and his
family, said he was also surprised that the Ghanaian media
also fed heavily on the story and republished it without as
much as seeking to get to the bottom of the matter, a
process he said would have uncovered the publication and its
source as highly unreliable and needlessly scandalous.
“It’s a simple thing, this can be confirmed, you give a $3.5
million cheque to Rawlings, it must go through the banks so
let him come and tell us which bank in Ghana or which bank
in Nigeria was the cheque cleared from…”
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