Two
days ago, Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi said the reason he and First
Lady Patience Jonathan fell out was because refused to share the state's
money with her...well the presidency has responded, saying that
Amaechi's day of reckoning is coming, that the immunity he enjoys now as
governor will not be forever. Find the State House press release
below...
Governor
Rotimi Amaechi
took his obnoxious willingness to denigrate the highest office in the
land in a reckless bid to advance his selfish political interests to a new
level of irresponsible and rascally behaviour yesterday in Port Harcourt with
his totally false and baseless vituperations against President Jonathan, the
First Lady and the Federal Government.
It
appears from the Governor's completely unfounded and off-the-mark allegations
that he had totally lost all sense of propriety, decorum and responsible
political behaviour and resorted to unacceptable demagoguery, libel, blackmail
and incitement of public disorder.
Unless
his unbridled ambition and desire for self- promotion have completely befuddled
his mental faculties and caused him to totally lose touch with reality,
Governor Amaechi must know that his claims and allegations are untrue.
We can only
assume therefore that he is deliberately spewing malicious falsehood in a
desperate effort to incite the people of Rivers State and Nigeria against his
assumed political foes.
We warn
him that there are legal, constitutional and moral limits to political
rascality beyond which he will not be allowed to go without repercussions.
The
immunity which he currently enjoys notwithstanding, Governor Amaechi should be
under no illusions: A day of reckoning
will surely come when he will answer for all his actions and false allegations
against President Jonathan, the First Lady and the Federal Government.
He
should also know that Nigerians are aware of the truth and will never be fooled
or swayed by his arrant opportunism and anti-Jonathan rantings.
Nigerians
know that while Mr. Amaechi falsely accuses others of corruption, he cannot
show or explain to the people of Rivers State what he has done with the
billions of Naira that has accrued to the state under his tenure.
They
also know that while Amaechi continues to falsely accuse the Jonathan
Administration of having done nothing for Rivers State, he has recklessly
squandered huge state resources on dubious, vain-glorious projects or self
aggrandizement.
Nigerians
will know too that while he falsely alleges that Rivers and other states have
not received funds due to them from the Federation account, the only
outstanding allocation was for September, which was released to all states well
over a week ago.
The
Governor should stop trying to make President Jonathan the scapegoat for his
woeful performance in Rivers State and look to his own very apparent failings
and incompetencies.
He should
also stop blackmailing the First Lady who has demanded nothing from him other
than good governance, justice, equity, fairness, real development and progress
in Rivers State.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
October 26, 2014
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