Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has urged Nigerians to demand good governance and the conduct of transparent elections.
Amaechi made the call at a conference of the state council on information in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
He insisted that laxity among the electorate was responsible for weak governance in Nigeria.
He said Nigerians had a greater percentage of blame for bad leadership in the country than the leaders.
“The people should demand transparent
election and good governance and where they do not, they are 80 per cent
of the problem,” he said.
Amaechi said the citizens must avoid
remaining quiet when things went wrong in leadership on the assumption
that nemesis would catch up with bad leaders.
He said such belief had impoverished the nation, while the leaders continued to squander national resources.
He explained that his administration had
completed 250 modern primary schools, which would be delivered to the
host communities in September.
Amaechi added that students of the
schools would be equipped with laptops, tablets, beds and free feeding
for nine months after which the parents would take over responsibility
of their training.
He said his administration would
inaugurate the “Unity bridge,” linking two coastal communities, Opobo
and Ikuru, to land transportation, in January.
The governor said his administration had also built a new school of nursing, which students would move into in December.
Meanwhile, a High Court sitting in Port
Harcourt has set aside July 29, 2013, for ruling on the right of the
Nigeria Police to investigate an alleged assassination plot against the
State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi and Speaker, House of Assembly,
Otelemaba Amachree.
The presiding judge, Justice Adolphus
Enebeli, took the decision on Thursday, following a heated argument on
the reason for and against the proposed investigation of the alleged
plot by the police.
Amachree had gone to court to challenge
the right of the police to investigate the allegation of a plot to
assassinate him and the state governor.
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