Why Jonathan, wife are fighting me ~ Amaechi ~ discloses that he incurred the wrath of President Goodluck Jonathan because he was seen to be exposing a lot of corrupt activities going on in government. Governor Amaechi attributed the crisis to three things: “the first was the attempt by the wife of the President to control the Rivers State government. I remember when female senators came to me after she met with them. She said to them: ‘I am the highest ranking officer from Rivers State and I wonder why the Governor of Rivers State does not accord me that respect. I said in law, I don’t see the office of the wife of the President being superior to that of the governor…The resistance is what you are seeing.. “you have the wife manipulating power, everybody doing one thing or the other.I wanted to make sure that I and the Rivers people are fully protected. I wasn’t convinced. Now, within the period, the President had called me and the wife and we sat together and made peace. There again, they promised that nobody would hurt me, nobody would do this or that. That’s why this is a bit difficult because there is nothing new that they can tell me that they did not tell me in 2011 and they did not keep to their promise”. we had hardly won the 2011 elections when the wife descended on me and the Rivers State Government. Basically, the only way you can survive is if you then wake up in the morning to say: ‘Good morning, ma. My name is Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers State. Do I greet this person or that person’? If she says no, then I don’t greet you. But if you need to run the office of the governor the way it is supposed to be run, then you would certainly have a disagreement with the wife of of the President It is about power and control. She appears to be somebody who loves power...
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:18:23 +0000
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