The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has described the allegations that he was plotting to destroy the judiciary as false and spurious.

Amaechi, who spoke on Friday through a statement from his media office, challenged Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to name the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress he (Wike) claimed he (Amaechi) spoke with on the alleged plan to bring down the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.

Amaechi maintained that he was not a judicial officer and could not be part of whatever was happening in the nation’s judiciary.

“This is another blatant lie just to smear Amaechi and put him on collision course with the judiciary. Ordinarily, we would not have bothered to respond to a governor whose stock-in-trade is to concoct stories and lie about almost everything and anything. The former Rivers State governor and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is not a judicial officer and is not part of whatever is happening in the judiciary. We challenge Nyesom Wike to mention the name of the APC chieftain, he falsely alleged, Amaechi discussed the ‘destruction of the CJN’ with.”

Wike had on Thursday alleged that Amaechi was behind the plot to destroy the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.

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