Presidency Replies Amaechi! Stop Political Rascality & Blackmail

Here is the president’s response
to Governor Amaechi’s speech at his Port Harcourt mega-rally yesterday were he called out the president on certain issues.

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.