Amaechi Blasts Jonathan Again

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has revealed the core of his frosty relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the state is being victimised. Amaechi, who is the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, noted that he left the PDP for the APC to protect the interest of Rivers people.

"For Rivers State, basically that is the cause of the quarrel and you have a choice to make. The choice for me is to vote out PDP and there is no sentiment about that. 

"Legally, we have not lost Soku (oil wells). We have just lost Soku to the fact that the President is from Bayelsa. When a President that is not from Bayelsa comes, he will look at the facts and the facts are there.

"The Federal Government, in writing in the court, said to the court: ‘sorry, court, we made a mistake; we will correct the mistake’ and we have told the Federal Government: ‘don’t call us for a meeting; go and correct that mistake. How could you people wake up in 2011… suddenly changed the map of Nigeria and take Soku (a part of Rivers State) into Bayelsa State?”

Amaechi also said the Jonathan administration refused to carry on a very important road project awarded by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to link the oil-rich Bonny Island in the state.

He said: “That road to Bonny was awarded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. They started; they have done just one bridge... President Goodluck Jonathan has forgotten about that road completely, despite the fact that part of the money that feeds the Nigerian economy comes from that place, Bonny. That’s where you have the natural gas plant.”

AMAECHI IMPEACHMENT: Patience Jonathan Meets Anti-Amaechi Lawmakers In Rivers

The impeachment plot being hatched against Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is said to have gained momentum on Friday as the First Lady, Patience Jonathan reportedly met with the group of six legislators who are against the Amaechi-led administration.

Mrs. Jonathan is in Rivers to attend the wedding of a relative and reports say she presided over meetings with the 6 anti-Amaechi legislators and other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) executives in the state.

The rebel lawmakers have been trying to gain entrance into the State House of Assembly...

Rumours of a planned session in the state House of Assembly by the six anti-Amaechi lawmakers had spread earlier in the day, but the complex remained locked by the police.

The police last night warned the warring state lawmakers to keep off the House after receiving notice of appeal filed by the National Assembly against a High Court judgement declaring as unconstitutional the take-over of the functions of the Assembly by the federal legislators.

It was gathered that the First Lady met in Port Harcourt and her Okrika hometown with the anti-Amaechi men to strategizen the way forward since they have been loosing in the courts.

The calculation of the group is to have the self-acclaimed Speaker of the House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, take over the affairs of the state once the plot succeeds with the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, waiting in the wings to fly the PDP ticket in the governorship election that will follow.

Jonathan Is a Coward, He is Behind That Letter –– Iyabo Obasanjo Blasts

Obasanjo exposed the bitter truth and the man helped made president decided to blackmail him?

"If President Jonathan want to reply the letter my father wrote him, he should be man enough to reply direct. Why are they trying to make me a scape goat? I know my father very well and I don't question his judgement, I believe my father wrote his letter in the best interest of the nation. If Mr President disagree with some of the allegations in the letter, let him be man enough to talk directly to my father, he should stop involving me in an issue I know nothing about. 

"How can you write a letter to insult my father and claim I, the daughter is the source. If that is how Ijaw people insult their father, I am a Yoruba Woman; we respect our parent in all circumstances.

Reacting to the fake letter against her father, Iyabo Obasanjo further stated that...

"I have never seen or heard this sort of fabrication in my entire life! I, Iyabo Obasanjo, never contemplate writing a letter to my loving father. I speak with him almost on daily bases. Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best father in the world. He gave birth to me, he raised me up and gave me the best of education. I wouldn't have achieved whatever I did without my father. In fact, WHO AM I WITHOUT MY FATHER? As a father he never disappoints his children in any way, he is a father anybody wish to have.

"I, Iyabo Obasanjo, did not write any letter. Nigerians should please take note. The purported letter is a malicious lies intended to rubbish the good name of my family, when I get to the source of the letter, I will waste no time to take the necessary legal actions. 

"I love my father and I never disrespect him."