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Amaechi: Jonathan Is Victimising Rivers by LocalChamp: 7:35pm On Dec 20, 2013 |
Amaechi: Jonathan is victimising Rivers Posted by: Bisi Olaniyi, Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has spoken on his frosty relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the state is being victimised. The state is neglected by the Federal Government, which ceded its oil wells to neighbouring Bayelsa State, the governor said. Amaechi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), noted that he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to protect the interest of Rivers. He urged Rivers indigenes to be politically-conscious and become agents of progressive change, thereby voting out the ruling PDP at the federal level. The governor spoke on Wednesday at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the state capital, while interacting with medical doctors. Amaechi said the APC held the light to the country’s rapid development and to reducing the general impoverishment in the country. He said one of the reasons for his disagreement with the Federal Government was the Soku oil wells in the Kalabari area of Rivers State, which were ceded to Bayelsa State and which the Rivers State government contested in court. The NGF chairman said: “For Rivers State, basically that is the cause of the quarrel and you have a choice to make. The choice for me is to vote out PDP and there is no sentiment about that. ”Legally, we have not lost Soku (oil wells). We have just lost Soku to the fact that the President is from Bayelsa. When a President that is not from Bayelsa comes, he will look at the facts and the facts are there. ”The Federal Government, in writing in the court, said to the court: ‘sorry, court, we made a mistake; we will correct the mistake’ and we have told the Federal Government: ‘don’t call us for a meeting; go and correct that mistake. How could you people wake up in 2011… suddenly changed the map of Nigeria and take Soku into Bayelsa State?” Amaechi also said the Jonathan administration failed to execute a road project awarded by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to link the oil-rich Bonny Island in the state. He said: “That road to Bonny was awarded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. They started; they have done just one bridge. The road has been abandoned. Yar’Adua tried to restart it, but he stopped. “President Goodluck Jonathan has forgotten about that road completely, despite the fact that part of the money that feeds the Nigerian economy comes from that place, Bonny. That’s where you have the natural gas plant.” The governor said the Federal Government had not reimbursed the state for the N105 billion spent on the Port Harcourt-Owerri federal road, Eleme and Agip flyovers in Port Harcourt, among others. On his administration’s bid to secure a loan to provide potable water for residents, Amaechi said the loan was being held up because of the challenge posed by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whom he noted had not signed off on the loan. Amaechi said: “I will start from water. We got African Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank to give us a loan, for which we will pay 0.4 per cent for 40 years, which is a wonderful loan and we planned to give Port Harcourt people water first. ”If everybody in Rivers State is drinking (potable) water that will reduce the number of patients that go to Braithwaite Memorial Hospital or any other hospital. World Bank agreed; Federal Government agreed; ADB agreed. They said, ‘go and do due process’. We have finished due process. What is remaining is for the Minister of Finance to just sign off. ”In fact, you know, like I tell people, I have no appetite for money, they can award the contract to whoever they want; all I want is water, because that will impact on other sectors of the Rivers State economy. ‘Oh, you are quarrelling with the President, we will not sign’; that is why they have not signed. ”Should the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that schooled in the University of Port Harcourt, worked at OMPADEC, Ministry of Education, University of Education or College of Education (COE) sit down there and deny Rivers people water?” The people chorused ‘No’. “Should I remain in that kind of government (party)?” Again, the people chorused ‘no.’ Amaechi said his decision to join the APC was not for his personal interests, but for the state. The people of the state to discourage politics based on tribe or region and play politics for the collective interests of the people. He said: “It is not about Ijaw. It is not about Southsouth, because the first question I will ask myself is ‘what have I benefitted in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan? We gave him between 1.5 million to 2.1 million votes. What have we got? What has the Federal Government done for Rivers people?” ”Nothing,” the people chorused. Amaechi also decried the grounding of the state’s aircraft by the Federal Government and its refusal to sign to allow the state to bring in two surveillance helicopters from the United States to check kidnapping and other crimes. The NGF chairman also stated that his critics in the state had been angry with him for his refusal to be corrupt, stressing that the Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu, was influenced in his actions by the Presidency. The Rivers Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Ibitrokoemi Korubo, assured the governor that they would continue to support his good policies. http://thenationonlineng.net/new/amaechi-jonathan-is-victimising-rivers/ |
Re: Amaechi: Jonathan Is Victimising Rivers by dunkem21(m): 7:38pm On Dec 20, 2013 |
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Re: Amaechi: Jonathan Is Victimising Rivers by piratedcopy(m): 8:31pm On Dec 20, 2013 |
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Re: Amaechi: Jonathan Is Victimising Rivers by Willy7(m): 8:38pm On Dec 20, 2013 |
Yeah,every unbiased and keen political observer will concur to most of d assertions made by d gov.GEJ's greatest undoings is the pple around him.From his wife to the least aid |
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