Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has resumed his verbal attack on Goodluck Jonathan, accusing the President of “supervising a highly corrupt government.”
The governor insisted that “there is no democracy yet in Nigeria,” describing the form of government being practised in Nigeria today as diarchy.
Amaechi, who spoke in Abuja on Saturday, maintained that he had no personal grudge against President Jonathan, adding that if governance could be separated from the President, he (Jonathan) “remains a good man.”
Speaking on the recent invasion of the National Assembly by the police on Thursday, Amaechi described the action as uncivilised.
He said, “We don’t have democracy in Nigeria yet. What we have is diarchy. We don’t have a democracy. Diarchy is dictatorship. The Federal Government has appropriated the police as its personal property. The FG has taken over the police. See the way the police took over the National Assembly. By law, the police have no power to invade the National Assembly and they have no power to stop the Speaker from going in or out of the National Assembly complex. But they don’t obey law.”
He insisted that his party, the All Progressives Congress, would not go to court if the PDP decided to rig the 2015 presidential elections.
He said, “What is the essence of going to court when the Federal Government don’t obey the law. That’s why the APC say we won’t go to the court any longer. If you rig us out, we would rig ourselves in; which means if you think you can rig us out in 2015, we will form our own government. We have met on that and we have agreed on that. We will instal our own government and there would be two governments.
“The only way to avoid a parallel government is to have a free and fair election. You can’t continue to use the police as if it is a private agency or company of the government.”
While saying that the Police in South Africa is currently investigating President Jacob Zuma, he wondered if the police in Nigeria would be allowed to play such a role in the country.
“Are you aware that the President of the South Africa is being probed by the police? Can that happen here? In this country, they slap judges. Seven members of a state (Ekiti) House of Assembly claimed they have sacked a Speaker,” he added.
The governor who is being tipped for vice presidency seat observed that Nigerians knew the capability of their soldiers, who he said went to Liberia and liberated the country from the hands of the rebels only for them to be having problems dislodging a rag-tag army of insurgents in the country.
He said, “The Federal Government deliberately allowed the Boko Haram to overrun many villages in the North-East. If it is not a political agenda, why would the military not be able to chase away the rag-tag army of Boko Haram?
“They don’t want elections to hold in the zone so that there wouldn’t be election in the zone. If there is no election in the North-East, they believe that the APC would lose.
“If they are not afraid of the APC, let them restore law and order. The zone is in the hands of the APC. Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and Yobe states are all APC states. The only state where it could be 50:50 is maybe Taraba State. Apart from this, other states in the zone have always voted for Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, one of our presidential hopefuls”.
Amaechi’s Wife Robbed Ex-Speaker Tonye Harry N200m – Wike
The people of Kalabari Kingdom on Monday expressed surprise as a frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike revealed that the wife of the Governor of Rivers State, Dame Judith Amaechi collected a total sum of two hundred million naira (N200m) from the former Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA), Late Rt. Hon. Tonye Harry so as to persuade her husband, Gov. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to return him as the Speaker for the second time. However, late Harry was dropped, while his kinsman, Dan-Amachree was picked to replace him.
Chief Wike who made this known on Tuesday while addressing members of the party at Buguma, headquarters of the Asari-Toru Local Government of Rivers State, alleged that, the Governor does not like the Kalabari people.
According to the PDP gubernatorial aspirant, the Governor has failed the Kalabari people. His words, “look at the road where your travelling to the village, is very bad. And you have a Speaker that does not border about the condition of that road”. Chief Wike blasted elected political officers from the Kalabari speaking LGAs, alleging that they do not have the interest of the people at heart.
He had earlier revealed that Amaechi’s refusal to return Tonye Harry as the Speaker of RSHA affected him (Tonye Harry) psychologically and also bordered on his health.
Chief Wike promised that if he is given the mandate to serve come 2015, the Kalabari people will benefit a lot in his administration. He promised to construct the Trans-Kalabari High way and also rehabilitate the Degema/Abonnema Road.
Wike further solicited for the support of the delegates to vote for him during the December 8, 2014 governorship primary election, saying that if voted he would not disappoint the people of the state.
