Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum,
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, said at the weekend that the Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP) has already failed the leadership test in the
country and needs not strive to be the custodian of leadership in the
future.
For perhaps the first time since his defection to the All
Progressives Congress (APC), the governor was explaining to journalists
in Port Harcourt why he believes even more state governors will abandon
the PDP and join the APC.
He accused the PDP of perpetrating injustice and promoting
maladministration in the country. According to him, the APC was
aggrieved by PDP’s poor performance, and if voted into power, would
bring about the needed change nationwide.
He recalled the political pressure being brought on the state by the
wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, whom he accused of attempting
to ‘micromanage’ the state.
He also bemoaned the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan had failed
to keep the promises he made to Rivers State after getting a huge
electoral backing from it for his electoral victory in the last
election.
Amaechi reiterated that he was in the APC to protect the interests of the state.
“I have since left the PDP to a better party called the All
Progressives Congress (APC) because PDP is a drowning party and the
facts remain that PDP is a drowning party,” he said.
“I can assure you that more governors will leave the PDP,” he
stressed. Just put it on record that more governors will leave. They
are uncomfortable, they need to come out (of the PDP) and I believe that
by God’s grace they will come."
He told the journalists that despite his travails, he would continue
the fight for change and good governance and accountability in the
country.
He acknowledged that the APC was winning more support and membership
in the country to signal the end to PDP’s dominance in Nigeria’s
political scene.
He further urged Nigerians to embrace and tolerate religious freedom
and play politics without ethnic and religious sentiment, stressing that
politics based on ethnicity and religion as being canvassed in some
sections of the country was unwise. He equally enjoined Nigerians to
vote and protect their votes during election.
He expressed his disappointment and displeasure at the continued
grounding of the state aircraft by the federal government, and the
unwillingness by the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to
sign off on a World Bank water project loan for the state.
The governor also decried the ceding of Soku oil wells to Bayelsa and
another 41 oil wells in Etche, Rivers State to neighbouring Abia State.
“They don’t like Rivers State, they hate us”, he said, recalling that
President Jonathan had brushed aside attempts by some interested
foreign bodies to mediate in the crisis between the state and the
federal government.
Former Lagos State Governor and APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu at
the last APC rally in Port Harcourt said the APC was having a ‘broom
revolution’ across the country and referred to Governor Amaechi as the
“Wonder Boy”.
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