I’m in Abuja to report things making me sick in Rivers – Ex-Hos Nwaeke

By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja

Former Rivers Head of Service, George Nwaeke, has said he was in Abuja to meet with security agencies to report the things happening in the state that are making him feel sick to the authorities. .

Nwaeke, who revealed that he is staying at the Transcorp Hilton hotel in Abuja said this while denying the claim of his wife that he was missing.

The wife of former Rivers HoS had on Friday raised alarm that he cannot reach her husband after he resigned from service.

Nwaeke’s wife raised alarm shortly after an interview in which his husband accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of holding meeting with militants to blow up pipelines following the political crises in the state.

“The next thing I saw this night: people were calling me and said he got an interview. I said, ‘What interview? Interview for what?’ Not until I saw things flying on the internet that he granted an interview. What happened? I said, ‘That is not my husband. That is not my husband,” the woman who said he can no longer reach his husband said.

But Nwaeke dismissed claim that he is missing in a recorded video sent to journalists in Rivers State on Saturday’s morning.

The former HoS dismissed claim that he was abducted. He claimed that his wife was manipulated to be saying ‘all sorts of things’. Nwaeke also affirmed that his wife does not know what is happening in his office.

“Good morning, gentlemen of the press. My name is Francis Nwaeke and I am in Transcorp in Abuja. I came in here this morning to meet with security agencies to report myself and the things happening in the state that are making me feel sick.

“Actually, I was head of service until Monday, and I resigned because of things that are happening. After the press interview I granted, I just saw a video of my trending where they went to hold her and fed her with all kinds of fallacies. Telling her I have been kidnapped.

“I want to clear this up. I was not kidnapped. I am in Abuja. This is the Transcorp Hotel where I am lodging. They told her I was kidnapped, and she was crying, and they are making her say all sorts of things.

“I want to put this straight. I am the head of service, and I am oath. My wife does not know anything that happens in my office. I don’t discuss anything with her. We discuss only domestic and social matters.

‘So the script that they wrote for her is null and void. I want to clear the air that I am safe. I am fine. By tomorrow morning, I intend to go to the security agencies to report myself.

“My coming to Abuja was based on the fact that Abuja is where the headquarters of security agencies are housed. I came here, and I think I a safe here to make this report, and they can investigate. I am on oath, and if I allow any of the information to take me up. But I am reporting exactly what I know. I said everything from my mind. And I want to reassure me that everything I said is true.

Nwaeke had resigned his appointment as Rivers HoS early this week.

He was replaced by Prof. Ibibi Worika who was appointed by the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.)