Amaechi Is A Huge Failure..Dumo Lulu Briggs

The Rivers State Governor Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has been blamed for the crisis in Rivers State by stakeholders. Addressing Newsmen recently at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs said people have been going through a hard situation since Governor Amaechi’s administration in Rivers State, to an extent that about 80 percent of the populace are angry and hungry, adding that the Rivers State Governor runs a government that is not open for everybody, whether economical and political.

 Chief Briggs stated that what every person expects from any leader is good governance and as a leader, if you run a government where about 80 percent of the people are hungry such government is a failure, because any house that is divided would never stand. “United they said we stand, he said.”

The young Kalabari born politician and onetime chairman of Maritime Academy, Oron, in Akwa Ibom State maintained that, His Excellency, Gov. Amaechi may be pointing accusing finger at stakeholders as people that do not want the progress of the state, yet it is a fact that, the people are angry.

 He said, civil servants salaries have been cut down and most of the Commissioners are stooges, even as the House of Assembly in the State, is not functioning, the extent that members now meet in the Hotels and Government House auditorium.

 He used the medium to fault the recently passed 2014 Rivers State Appropriation Bill into law at the Banquet Hall of the Rivers State Government House, instead of the Hallow Chamber of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Port Harcourt, pointing out that, there are three arms of Government, the Legislature, Executive, and the judiciary, which ought to be independent and for the members of the House to ignore the Hallow Chamber and went to Government House to perform their legislative duties, where the executives meet meant that, they have lost out, describing it as uncalled for.

 However, Hon Dumo Lulu Briggs admitted that it is not late for Gov. Amaechi to reconcile with his people because, peace is the only panacea to unity and is not perfect except God and as a leader when you make mistakes, you should consult your people and listen to opinions.

 He also recalled that Hon. Amaechi’s emergence as a governor since 2007 was God's hand and when God anointed you and you deviate or forget, it means that such person has no conscience.

 He called on Rivers people to give their full support to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.