Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has mocked his arch rival and predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, over the alleged leaked tapes released on Friday.
Amaechi, who is also the Director-General of the Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation, was allegedly caught on tape criticising Buhari and lamenting the rising rate of poverty in the country.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Wike said the alleged audio leaks showed that Amaechi supports Buhari for monetary gains, describing him as “a hypocrite.”
Wike tweeted, “It is only a greedy man that supports a world renowned failure because of monetary gains.
“I have known Amaechi from day one and greed has separated him from everyone he was once close to. The leaked tapes say it all.”
According to an audio released by Phrank Shaibu, an aide of Atiku Abubakar, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Amaechi allegedly railed at Buhari in a conversation with some journalists.
In the clip which could not be authenticated by The PUNCH, Amaechi, who is also the Minister of Transportation, purportedly said Buhari neither reads nor listens to anyone.
Sources said that Amaechi allegedly made the comments at a meeting with journalists in Minna over a year ago and that some persons had been using the audio clip to blackmail the Minister of Transportation for some time.
In one of the clips, the person speaking said, “The President is not listening to anybody. He doesn’t care. You can write anything you want. The President doesn’t care. Does he read?”
Amaechi has refused to comment on the matter since the audio leaked on Friday but an aide to the President, Tolu Ogunlesi, said the clips were authentic but that the comments allegedly made by Amaechi were done in 2014 and were directed at President Goodluck Jonathan and not Buhari.
