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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has described the All Progressives Congress government as a promise and fail administration and said that he was not going to jubilate over the approval of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had during its weekly meeting on Wednesday approved the money for the rehabilitation of the refinery.
But Wike, while speaking as a guest on Channels programme “Politics Today’, said it was not the first time the Federal Government would be making such promises, which have never been implemented.
The governor also said the news was not a thing that will make anyone start jubilating, but that promises of that nature only indicate that elections are around the corner.
“We have had a lot of promises. We have had a lot of talks and nothing has materialized. If the refinery is going to work, it will improve a lot of economic activities. There will be employment for the people of the state. We will be happy, but I am saying that we have had these promises and nothing has happened.
“So, I don’t want to begin to say hallelujah. Let us wait and see what will happen based on the approval and the statement made by the Minister of State, Petroleum. We will hold him accountable for it.
“We know, even before the (APC) government came into being, they had promised a lot of things and later, they said because of these challenges and that they are not able to fulfil them,” he said.