#theamaechiiknow : On next year’s governorship election, he reiterated that he would not support an Ikwerre candidate. “The next thing I want to tell you, I am an Ikwerre man, whether Ikwerre have the population or not, Ikwerres should bid farewell to the governorship till some others have gotten it. “Where the governor will come from, I don’t know, I’m not God. But I will fight any Ikwerre candidate that comes out. That one you can take from me. What you can’t take from me today is I don’t know where the governor will come from,” he said. Earlier, four-time former minister, Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas, had saluted Amaechi’s courage and sincerity in seeking protection for the disputed Soku oil wells in Kalabari land, saying it was time for all Kalabri sons and daughters to rally round the governor to reclaim the disputed oil wells. Graham-Douglas said: “Let me at this juncture state unequivocally that Governor Amaechi’s resolve to protect the Kalabari oil field is well-intentioned and genuine. “Any contrary notion being peddled should be discarded. We should be most grateful to him for standing firm to ensure that the Kalabari Kingdom is not balkanised through the ill-motivated and ill-conceived boundary adjustment. “Not only will the design reduce our local government area, Akulga, to just Abonnema and Obonoma, it will leave desolate, the inhabitants of Kula, Abise, Idama, Soku and Elesagama. “It is now time for all our people to prepare for whatever contribution and support that may be needed to that Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s struggle to protect our territory is successful. His struggle is that our oil wells remain ours.”
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:22:10 +0000
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