Among some of the reasons he gave was that, when he declared curfew in Okirika, the home town of the First lady, she pressurised him to lift the curfew, he went further to say that he marked some buildings for demolition so he can build schools in the same village and that the Presidents wife tried to stop him. It is very surprising that after Chibuike Amaechi advanced the real reasons why he is at a loggerhead with the President's wife, he has woken up to give another "real reason", why the President's fight is fighting him.
The vituperation did not stop with the President's wife, it was extended to include the President and also the former Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Nwike. Is Amaechi going gaga over his alleged Vice presidential ambition? Must we resort to name calling, Character assasination and defamation in order to convince and confuse people to vote for us?
Below is the Quotes from Amaechi while speaking with graduating students of the state.
"I refused to give them money in Abuja because if I do that, I won't be able to carry out any development project or finish the road from Rumuolumeni to Rumuepirikom.
"The quarrel between me and the wife of the President is because she said I should bring your money, Rivers people money and share with her," he explained.
Mr. Amaechi called on the people of the state as well as members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to ensure the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, does not manipulate and rig the 2015 general elections.
Mr. Amaechi said if the PDP was allowed to rig the election and President Goodluck Jonathan, a member of the party, was voted back into office in 2015, poverty and underdevelopment would ruin the state.
"Now that you are graduates, you are now eligible voters that can use your voters' card to change society," he said.
"Ask yourselves this question that I have always asked Rivers people. What have we (Rivers people) done to President Jonathan that he has refused to bring any project to Rivers State. We had to fight them before they could do the East-West road.
"I had to abuse the federal government and they abused me back before they could do the work you now see on that road," he said.
The governor alleged that Mr. Jonathan, who is from the South-South zone to which Rivers State belongs, had taken the state's oil well from Soku to his (Jonathan) home state, Bayelsa State.
He also said 41 oil wells in Etche Local Council of the state was given to Abia State.
He asked, "Is the President or his wife from Abia State? Why do they want us to suffer? If President Jonathan comes back to power in 2015, Rivers State economy will crash."
Mr. Amaechi lamented the consistent shortfall in oil revenue and the negative impact it had created to frustrate innocent Nigerians and urged the graduates to question the inconsistencies of the federal government in revenue sharing between it and the states.
"Graduates like you have the opportunity to ask the federal government to explain what they are doing with our money," Mr. Amaechi advised.
"Since September this year, the federal government has not been able to pay any state from the federal allocation. They said they don't have money. This is the first time that our president is emerging as the 6th richest person in Africa."
He tasked the graduates to register as eligible voters ahead of the general elections.
Mr. Amaechi also blamed the failure of the Rumuolumeni Road construction project on the immediate past minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike, whom he described as incompetent.
He said the state government awarded N1.5 billion for the construction of internal roads in Rumulumeni and had already given the indigenous contractor, who is also from the area, N700 million.
"We said Rivers money for Rivers people because they don't have capital. This man took the contract and gave it to a man who now wants to be governor.
"This man that is being backed by Mrs. Jonathan gave N250 million to the indigenous contractor and disappeared with N450 million without constructing the road. And this is the man who wants to be governor, with billboards screaming the concept of 'New Vision'.
"What kind of vision is that for a thief? They have been thieves for too long so it cannot be new vision. The only thing that is new is that he has industrialized stealing. The former minister of state for education in a radio interview said, he 'shedded tears'. Everyone knows there's no word like that."
The presidency formally reacted yesterday to Amaechi's latest allegation against the President's wife, saying Governor Rotimi Amaechi took his obnoxious willingness to denigrate the highest office in the land in a reckless bid to advance his selfish political interests to a new level of irresponsible and rascally behaviour yesterday in Port Harcourt with his totally false and baseless vituperations against President Jonathan, the First Lady and the Federal Government.
It appears from the Governor's completely unfounded and off-the-mark allegations that he had totally lost all sense of propriety, decorum and responsible political behaviour and resorted to unacceptable demagoguery, libel, blackmail and incitement of public disorder.
Unless his unbridled ambition and desire for self- promotion have completely befuddled his mental faculties and caused him to totally lose touch with reality, Governor Amaechi must know that his claims and allegations are untrue.
We can only assume therefore that he is deliberately spewing malicious falsehood in a desperate effort to incite the people of Rivers State and Nigeria against his assumed political foes.
We warn him that there are legal, constitutional and moral limits to political rascality beyond which he will not be allowed to go without repercussions.
The immunity which he currently enjoys notwithstanding, Governor Amaechi should be under no illusions: A day of reckoning will surely come when he will answer for all his actions and false allegations against President Jonathan, the First Lady and the Federal Government.
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