The Rivers State Governor, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has alleged that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is at loggerheads with him because he refused to share the funds of the state with her.
Amaechi said this in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, at the joint graduation of the students of the University of Ibadan and pioneer graduates of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education.
He said: “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.”
Amaechi urged the people of the state as well as members of the All Progressives Congress not to allow the Peoples Democratic Party manipulate and rig the 2015 general elections.
He said: “Now that you are graduates, you are now eligible voters that can use your voters’ card to change society.
“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.”
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