Browsing: Governor Rotimi Amaechi

It said the reason that Amaechi has been targeted by his all-powerful enemies, who have used national institutions – including the police – against him, are his strenuous defence of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, which he chairs; his battle for his state and its people over their oil well dispute with Bayelsa State, which is in furtherance of his efforts to live up to his oath of office and constitutional responsibility; and his audacity in rejecting dictations from an unelected self-important personality on how he governs his state

The ACN wondered when it became a sin for any Nigerian, including elected officials, to visit any part of the country as the governors did, saying there can be no justification other than organized political rascality for a group of paid hoodlums to invade a secure environment like the airport and pelt the convoy bearing the governors with all sorts of objects

The First Lady urged those who are crying more than the bereaved to stop magnifying the misunderstanding, while reiterating that Amaechi and the Minister of State for Education, Nyeson Wike, who is also from Rivers State, remain her sons, brothers and kinsmen

If the climate of opinion against the President in the mainstream media is bad, it is worse in the new media where Dr. Jonathan has effectively been chased out of the social media. He hardly tweets, if at all he does that these days

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the statement credited to PSC Chairman, Mike Okiro, suggests that his commission is only interested in the role of the police in last week’s clashes, rather than how the police hierarchy in the state wantonly allowed the flare-up simply because it is acting to protect certain interests at the expense of public interest