Analysis: How Gov Amaechi buys sympathy from gullible Nigerians after supervising beating up of ”rival” lawmakers with his loyalists, ADC and CSO If Gov Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi were a lady, he would have been tagged ”the Drama Queen”. And he is not alone in it. Chidi Lloyd, Amaechi’s loyalist mace-user, after beating up a fellow lawmaker purpotedly ”disloyal” to Amaechi, in well publicized YouTube videos, checked into a private clinic, feigning exhaustion from beating by the one he actually nearly killed, helped by the Governor’s Chief Security Officer (now at large) and his Aide-de-Camp (now in custody of police). Just before then, a strange car came from nowhere to hit his own self-driven 4-wheel drive somewhere along Airport Road, and he miraculously came out unhurt. Nigerians never got further details of what transpired the next day. As usual, gullible hawks preying on anything to discredit President Jonathan, lapped up the dummy sold by the Drama King in a rare show of Belief Perseverance. This phenomenon is charactirized by sticking to self-formed opinions even when shown evidence to the contrary. Now the latest episode making the rounds and also swallowed hook line and sinker by the extra-gullible seekers of Jonathan’s downfall has taken a fresh-turn: ”Gov Amachi’s convoy barred from entering Govt House, Port Harcourt”. The same governor who a few hours earlier had personally gone with a flower girl to receive the president on arrival at the Port Harcourt Internation Airport, Omagwa. Well, this is what really transpired for those who only get their feeds from newspapers and do not reside in Port Harcourt: Updated: from Emma Okah: “The police did not block Amaechi. Govt House, PH has 3 gates. The official gate is along Azikiwe Road. Amaechi and his crowd refused to use that official gate because he wanted to be in the news. The 2nd gate is near the RS Secretariat and it’s open. There is the third gate which is along Forces Avenue, which is a private gate or better still, an escape route. On the same forces Avenue is where Amaechi opened a parallell PDP Secretariat in defiance of a court order. Police blocked the portion of the road where the illegal secretariat is located to avoid a breakdown of law and order. The point blocked by the police is a great distance of about 300 meters from the 3rd gate of GHPH and there are many other streets cutting off that blocked point. Amaechi clearly wanted to defile the police and that is why he and his crowd passed through the point where the police blocked the road. When he got to the blocked road, he wanted to show that he is a superman and he challenged the police. The police refused to unblock that spot and he later went to follow the main gate which is the proper gate. Even before the above apt description of what transpired by Emma Okah, a former Commissioner for Information in Rivers State who resides in Port Harcourt, other Port Harcourt residents recounted their experiences: Princewill Emejuru POSTED: that is not true, I’m a Rivers and live in Rivers, what haed was that the PDP loyal to the Gov was stopped by the police to open a parallel office and roads were baricaded and it coincided with the Gov return from inspection, more over the road blocked was not the main entrance to the Govt house… And Paul Praise POSTED: ” no b so ooo, watch NTA , they just showed it, he was even the one that welcomed GEJ at d airport, NTA just showed every”… Gov Amaechi had in previous occassions called for the removal of Mbu the state commissioner of police, that his life is in danger. Amid all these, he went into the River State House of Assembly to moderate the beating up of disloyal lawmakers with his CSO and ADC and his loyalist lawmaker Chidi Lloyd who is facing court action. When contacted, the commissioner, who was visibly shocked and knows that the two main entrances to government house were free, said he will investigate the matter. The last gate on forces avenue is rarely used even when there is no blockade, how much more when access to it was by default cut off because of the court-ordered sealing up of the ”new” PDP offices anywhere in Nigeria (Kano office was also sealed). With the foregoing, it takes habitual haters who indulge in Hindsight Bias, to be suckers for the crafty Amaechi antics. Shine your eyes. -Allison Kpobari, An Observant Media Psychologist and Port Harcourt Resident
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:43:29 +0000
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