The Rivers State Government yesterday said that current
efforts by the immediate past governor of the state and current Minister of
Transportation Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi to impose a governor in the state
will fail.
In a statement in Port Harcourt, entitled “ Amaechi and the limits
of hubris”, the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr Austin
Tam- George observed that the ex governor is already “ in campaign mode for the
next election circle in the state” using the elaborate celebration of his 52nd
birthday as a decoy. The government observed that the event was a “classic case
of a rapist returning to his victim to ask for love” citing his past appalling
record of political misbehavior and transgressions against the people.
The
statement accused him of refusal to pay pensioners their entitlements for six
months contributing to the death of hundreds of “senior citizens in Rivers
state from 2014 – 2015. It reminded the public that Amaechi was indicted for
stealing billions of public funds by a court- approved judicial panel of
inquiry set up by the state government. The government further accused him of
plunging the state into economic problems through his “thoughtless policies and
reckless public spending”. It derided his public posturing as the leader of the
All Progressives Congress, APC in the state, describing it as the clearest
indication of the moral carcass that the party of “change” has brought to
Nigeria. The statement concluded by saying that “his administration was marked
by myth making and public deceit”
Amaechi had yesterday celebrated a lavish birthday party where he made his
oft-repeated declaration that the APC will take over the reins of governance in
the state in 2019. The birthday party had in attendance APC stalwarts including
the Plateau state governor Mr. Simon Lalong.
The SUN
