Judith Amaechi, wife of former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi, has vehemently denied claims by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike that she received ₦4 billion monthly from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for women empowerment and training.
She dismissed Wike’s assertion as “absurd and baseless” and a “subtle blackmail to score cheap political goals.” Judith Amaechi also contested Wike’s claim that she was indicted in an NDDC corruption probe.
The accusations arise from the ongoing political rivalry between Wike and Rotimi Amaechi, both former governors of Rivers State, whose relationship deteriorated after Amaechi’s tenure from May 2007 to May 2015, when he handed over to Wike, who served for eight years.
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Wike, in an interview earlier in July 2025, had specifically alleged that Judith Amaechi received ₦4 billion monthly, totaling ₦48 billion, to train Niger Delta women.
However, in a statement released on Tuesday by Judith’s spokesperson, Dike Bekwele, it was declared that there was “no iota of veracity” in Wike’s allegations against Judith and the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI).
“Dame Amaechi did not and has never received four billion naira monthly payments (₦4,000,000,000.00) from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
“The partnership between the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) and the NDDC is reciprocal, to jointly fund human capacity programmes and trainings for the teeming youths and women; supporting nano, micro, small and medium scale entrepreneurs, and its entrepreneurial development centre for youths and women of the Niger Delta Region.
“It will be preposterous for Wike to allege that the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) or Dame Judith Amaechi was indicted in the NDDC forensic audit report, which has not been published to the Nigerian Public. It is both absurd, baseless, and a mere figment of Mr. Wike’s imagination,” the statement read.
Judith challenged Wike to make public his version of the forensic audit report on the NDDC, where either she or the ESI was indicted.
“In the likely event that Wike fails to provide such report, then we challenge Mr. Wike to actuate his boast and make bold to tender his resignation as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, forthwith with an unreserved apology to the Nation,” the statement read.
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