Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State yesterday accused the Presidency of directing the new Rivers Police Commissioner, Mr Dan Bature, to install a governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state.
Governor Amaechi’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr David Iyofor, in a statement, disclosed that there was a fresh sinister plot to allegedly throw Rivers State into “avoidable crisis.”
The governor’s scribe said the recently-deployed Police boss was “instructed by the Presidency to use the former Rivers police commissioner, Joseph Mbu’s draconian style and tactics in causing crisis in Rivers State.”
According to Iyofor “while it is easy for a few in the Presidency to dismiss these reports, we in Rivers State, with the benefit of hindsight and our collective recent bitter experience in the hands of former Police Commissioner Joseph Mbu, who was also reported to have a similar mandate, cannot.”
The governor’s spokesperson, however, said any move to install a stooge of the presidency will be resisted by people of the state.
He said the “people of Rivers State will strongly and bravely resist any attempt by anyone or institutions, including The Presidency, to unconstitutionally install the preferred PDP aspirant as governor of the state, now or in the 2015 election. There is no provision in the Nigerian Constitution and laws for the installation of a preferred aspirant as governor of a state by the presidency. What our laws prescribe is a free and fair election that must be devoid of police and security forces coercion, harassment and intimidation of voters.”
He further warned that such move, if allowed, portends danger to the state and nation, adding, “Rivers voters must be allowed to and will freely elect their governor in the 2015 elections.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Amaechi... do you use weed to cook beans.....I think is getting too much in your side.....don't make us angry. ...
ReplyDeleteAmechi! cool down. You can never fight ur father n succeed so cool down if not sorry for u
ReplyDeleteAmeachi is being DECIEVED by the ROTIMI in his NAME. Pls do as U please with RIVERS while it last bcos, soon U will be HISTORY just as PETER ODILI is now.
ReplyDeleteCHIBUIKE "ROTIMI" AMEACHI- just like my unstable friends "berebe"
What is wrong with dis Amaechi sef? What powers does a Police commisioner have to install a governor, it is unconstitutional and Jonathan cannot do such as there will be public outcry and it will also hurt his re-election campaign. So I suggest Amaechi keeps quiet and let us hear word.
ReplyDeleteamaechi!sh0t ur big m0uth,u hav failed river state.judging by d kind 0f res0urces river state has,i xpected river state 2 b sec0nd paradise,like cr0ss river and akwa ib0m.but dia u r makin n0ize jst 2 divert pe0ples attenti0n 4rm ur failure.
ReplyDeleteYours is to shout like a day old baby and it won't help you.
ReplyDeleteAmeachi 'berebe' indeed. dan iska ne.
ReplyDeleteAmeachi knows that he has blinders by joining APC in a state like Rivers. He knows his days are over
ReplyDeleteRivers and Lagos money goes into financing APC. They are also experts at any kind of propaganda. When did a police commissioner begin to have powers to install Governors? Wake up from your imagination Governor.
ReplyDelete...all, let us kniow that there is nothing impossible in Nigeria even as it is possible for PDP to have nominated a former prisoner to want to rule osun.......
ReplyDeletewhat nonsense are u even talking about, was a former prisoner not become president in Nigeria? Amechi is a cry baby and joining APC made him worse off! always crying and complaining but when it comes to borrowing and crippling the state in debt, he does not remember to cry and complain. stupid man.
DeleteThe truth is bitter Amechi had said it all but people wouldn't belief him until Rivers is turned to a state of anarchy.
ReplyDeleteReasonable one should note that GEJ planned to install an unpopular candidate; Wike as a governor. Wike is not loved, he is an unpopular person in Rivers state besides, he is an Ikwere man while Amechi also is an Ikwere which means Ikwere man wants to take over from another Ikwere man in a multi-cultural and tribal state like Rivers State. Hun !! !! !!!! !!!!! !!!!!! !!!!! I dey laugh.
Must he always mentioned president name in everything?, he nor get elderly person for him village? Are you the only governor in this country?
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