Reasons Why I Will Not Support GEJ In 2015..Amaechi

Governor Amaechi, Monday, said he would not support President Goodluck Jonathan for a re-election as long as he continues to short-change Rivers State for other states, saying he would not “sacrifice Rivers for the interest of a South-South president who does not favour the state.”

Amaechi, who said another 41 oil wells belonging to the state in the Etche area had been ceded to neighbouring Abia State by the Federal Government, also alleged that the level of corruption in the current federal administration was unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.

He also said the Federal Government had elected to devote anti-graft agencies against the state, while it looked the other way in the cases of its own agencies that should be investigated for corruption.

“One other thing that is bothering me is that all those that are on the other side, saying we want South-South president, I agree with them, but in politics you don’t just go to a place because you like someone, you go because you have your own political interest, so if a South-South president refuses to give you water what do you do? You sweep him out.

“We gave the president nearly 2.1 million votes, right? Let him tell us one project he has done for us. I have challenged the president that I belong to the APC, if he wants me back in the PDP let him give back the oil wells to the Kalabari people. No,  the president cannot, instead, he will take more. One of our sons, a Kalabari son, said the oil wells were taken under Rufus Ada-George, tell him I say he’s lying, he’s never served in government. I served under Ada-George government, there was no oil well taken from Rivers State. I served under Dr Peter Odili, the oil well was taken in 2006, they put the money in an escrow account, by 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 they took all the money and gave to our brothers and they converted Soku to Bayelsa. My friend and brother in Bayelsa said ‘we don’t want Soku, we just want their oil-wells.

They said Buhari is not a Christian, he’s a moslem, we are not preaching religious politics, everyone in Nigeria has a right to worship where he wants to worship. It is only when there is bad governance that they begin to look for who is an Ikwerre man, who is an Ijaw man, who is a Hausa man, who is a Yoruba man. If there’s good governance you will be talking about schools, today have I told you I’m an Ikwerre man?

“In Etche they have taken our forty-one oil wells across, they are denying us our rights, we have suffered enough and as a students’ leader, I learnt that nobody should trample on your rights. If I had not fought for my rights I wouldn’t have become governor, I suffered and my children suffered, but today, we are in government. If you listen to them closely our brothers on the other side are hungry, they have been out of power for nearly eight years, if you vote them into power what will happen?,” Amaechi said.

The event was also attended by Senator Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Tom Ikimi, Alhaji Aminu Masari, members of the National Assembly and other leaders of the APC at both the state and national levels.