Governor Amaechi Talks Tough, Threatens To Leave The PDP

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  • Says I Will Only Obey Court, But Outside That, Nobody, Not Even The PDP Can Give Me Condition
  • Ask If There Is Only One Party In Nigeria
  • Says If They Suffocate Us In PDP And We Need To Move, We Move

Just few hours after Governor Rotimi Amaechi and President Goodluck Jonathan openly embraced each at the Port Harcourt International Airport yesterday, Governor Amaechi has warns that he will leave the PDP should the party remain adamant on the reversal of the suspension of Obio/Akpor Local government executives as a condition which he will be allowed to remain a member of the PDP.
The Governor made this assertion while responding to series of Amaechi said this while reacting to queries by Rev. Igantius C. Kattey, Anglican Bishop of Niger Delta Diocese Rev. Ignatius C. Kattey, at the 60th birthday thanksgiving service of the former president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), O.C.J. Okocha (SAN) in Port Harcourt.

At the occasion, the bishop during his homily at the church service, has required to know from Governor Amaechi if he had been given the recall of the suspended executives of Obio/Akpor Local Government executives as a pre-condition  to settle the matter between him and his party the PDP as Bishop Kattey also sought to know what Amaechi was doing about it.
The Bishop asked Amaechi if actually there was an election that brought him back as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, as he asked Amaechi to tell him the truth.
In his response Governor Amaechi  said;  “If they reverse it tomorrow, there is one more option left to me, I can dissolve the entire executive. The police can remain there as much as they want, it is Obio/Akpor people’s problem; the money is going nowhere. But we have saved you too, because the reason they suspended the executives is because they said, ‘let us investigate the place because there was corruption.’ If they investigate and the chairman and the councilors are not corrupt, they will call them back. But if they go to court to try to stop them, they will do their function.”
The Governor added further saying; “I want to hear the court say they have no right to do their function. Whatever the court says is what the Rivers State Government will do. We will obey the court, but outside that, nobody, not PDP, can give me condition. Is there only one party in Nigeria? Why would they give me condition? They will not give me condition.
“I lead the people of Rivers State and I will lead you. If they suffocate us in PDP and we need to move, we move! We will continue to struggle for our rights, and that includes our oil wells. You will hear the truth of this fight in December, January. I will address the state and I will tell you the truth of the fight,” Amaechi said.
“Not between me and these people here, they are not a problem to me. But when election comes, the Rivers people will be given the chance to choose who they want,” he said
Reacting more to the question by the Bishop, Amaechi said: “I don’t lie. If I will go to hell, lie wouldn’t be one of the reasons for my going to hell. Take it from me, those who lie don’t have courage, I have them in quantum; my children have excess of courage. Your Grace, there was an election, your Grace, they are not denying that there was no election. They said before the election some people have signed documents for them, and they were 19, but in contesting the election, those 19 changed their minds and voted for me, and when the battle was on it was clear that it was between the ‘Villa’ and me, and I won.”
“There was an election and they were properly defeated and they saw the consequences of defeat. It is a Governors’ Forum I have led for two years. Even the 16 told me ‘you were wonderful as the chairman, but you know where the pressure is coming from and we can’t avoid the pressure, I won and won well, tomorrow morning (today), I will win again, ” the governor added.

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