abagoro:

I wonder how most of you came about certain things you spew out here. How did Odili betray his region? Odili's plight was as a result of his ethnicity. He's an Igbo from South-south and hence was resisted from taking the turn of South-south when they were considered by OBJ for Presidency. Odili was disliked in Rivers because of his political tactics of using youths and in that process creating militancy. It is the same with Patience and Bipi's style.

mbulela:
That question does not have an answer. It is easy to tell folks to forget the messenger and focus on the message but their is nothing new in this message. Who does not know that GEJ is clueless,who does not know that he is pro-establishment and has no moral fibre to address the issues at heart? There is nothing new in what Amaechi is saying. We already know it. It is difficult to trust him. He has been on the side of the barbarians and it is not like he had a Damscus experience. If not for greed,he and Wike will still be joined at the hip and looting Rivers state blind.

Demdem:

Ur post made no sense considering my post which u qouted. My argument isn't to rubbish Soludos so called acheivenent but to present a very sad path which he took. Even at that, I still love Soludo despite his lies as regards those banks because good things still came from him. It's idiotic to think I will IDOLISED these killer members.

Again I state, Soludo lied about the health status of our banks and am very sure the frog eyed finance minister is being untruthful with the health of our economy.

ochejoseph: Amaechi !!!!! I see pure Arrogance ,lack of Respect, Selfishness and Studpidity of the highest Order.
Just becos my Brothers in the North have offered You ZoBo plus or minus Fura da nono you have decided to sell your region .
Its a shame people like Amaech'i are allowed to speak at a University!

Amaechi May your wishes never come true

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

mbulela:
That question does not have an answer. It is easy to tell folks to forget the messenger and focus on the message but their is nothing new in this message. Who does not know that GEJ is clueless,who does not know that he is pro-establishment and has no moral fibre to address the issues at heart? There is nothing new in what Amaechi is saying. We already know it. It is difficult to trust him. He has been on the side of the barbarians and it is not like he had a Damscus experience. If not for greed,he and Wike will still be joined at the hip and looting Rivers state blind.

ochejoseph: Amaechi !!!!! I see pure Arrogance ,lack of Respect, Selfishness and Studpidity of the highest Order.
Just becos my Brothers in the North have offered You ZoBo plus or minus Fura da nono you have decided to sell your region .
Its a shame people like Amaech'i are allowed to speak at a University!

Amaechi May your wishes never come true

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

ogb5:

Uduaghan is very correct, the south south people are not in a position to be oposing the president publicly, moreso south south people in the ruling party. How many yoruba pdp governors opposed obasanjo when he was president, how many northern pdp governors opposed Yar ardua?

The south south pdp governors have unlimited access to Jonathan, if they have any idea that can move the country forward, they should meet GEJ and discuss their ideas and try to sell their ideas to him. Castigating GEJ publicly will not bring Amaechi any good.

Amaechi claim that the poverty level has increased from 30% in the 70s to 70% today, what he failed to realize is that the northerners he is presently romancing are largely responsible to the increased poverty in the land

ogb5:

Uduaghan is very correct, the south south people are not in a position to be oposing the president publicly, moreso south south people in the ruling party. How many yoruba pdp governors opposed obasanjo when he was president, how many northern pdp governors opposed Yar ardua?

The south south pdp governors have unlimited access to Jonathan, if they have any idea that can move the country forward, they should meet GEJ and discuss their ideas and try to sell their ideas to him. Castigating GEJ publicly will not bring Amaechi any good.

Amaechi claim that the poverty level has increased from 30% in the 70s to 70% today, what he failed to realize is that the northerners he is presently romancing are largely responsible to the increased poverty in the land

kokoA: you have made a very sensible comment devoid of the usual "gutter criticism" of nairalanders. I respect you for that. But you must understand that the fact that the yoruba and hausa governors never criticised their OBJ and UMY doesn't make Uduaghan right. Change must start from somewhere. Amaechi may not be the needed face of change but the fact remains that what he said up there is 100 percent true. We must learn to tell our politicians the truth irrespective of where they come from or what language they speak.

Rexxie:
Goddamit soludo never lied about da banks n besides da bank owners,shareholdas werent complainin,of any malfunction or underfunctionin in thos said banks n there was a last resort base of 25b for any eventuality which would never have happnd,tha psycho @ d C.bank only exposed practices hes bn part of,biz as usual not as if am condonin tha..so get tha in2 ur head only Cos i know thisss wha happns wen abokis get some educatn:they become educated abokis.n aliyu remains d frog

porka: Ahhh!!!

This is treacheryyyyy!!!

Don't this guy have any older person he's looking up to assist him with his public utterances?

Have the northern and southwestern leaders urging him on seen from his own perspective on regionalism?

This is a very sad development.

Does he know that the 4billion naira 'left-over' of his state's July allocation is the total figure for the some states in those regions?

How would Gov Amaechi react when other regions start to clamour for equal share of the national resources, will he still maintain this myopic stance?

And he was even teaching this young minds the art of treachery?

This is sad! Someone must talk to this guy. It's getting out of hand.

This is not stubbornness, it isn't heroism, it's pure inexperience. Nigeria is too complex for this type of his thinking.

It was people from that region and many from the South West region that fought for the revenue derivation principle which enables Mr Amaechi to have access to 19b naira in July alone with only 6m people, while states like Lagos and Kano do not have access to half of that.

Does he know more than these people?

Why didn't they so much talk about being just Nigerian and not regions as he's saying here?

Or does he think you can on one hand be bothered about being Nigerian in terms of leadership at the centre and on the other hand being a SS or Rivers State when it comes to revenue allocation?

Both are contradictory.

What is he going to say to his friends and current admirers when they began to demand for more share of the revenue from his state? After all, we should all be equal.

Governor Amaechi, there are millions and millions of people who also think that Nigeria should just jettison these regional structure and focus on general developmental thinking.

But there are also millions and millions of people who feel otherwise. If you are doing this to your people today, what do you think people should do when they start paying you in your own coin?

Rexxie:
Goddamit soludo never lied about da banks n besides da bank owners,shareholdas werent complainin,of any malfunction or underfunctionin in thos said banks n there was a last resort base of 25b for any eventuality which would never have happnd,tha psycho @ d C.bank only exposed practices hes bn part of,biz as usual not as if am condonin tha..so get tha in2 ur head only Cos i know thisss wha happns wen abokis get some educatn:they become educated abokis.n aliyu remains d frog

sweetest boi: its funny 2 knw dat evn as literate as I thought u are,u still blinded by the word region n ethnicity"mention 1 significant benefit gej's presidency has brought 2 d south"its time we start considerin nationality instead of ethnicity"

Michael Nwiwiri: Irespective of right of reply, the responses to Ameachi's presentation shows how, we think, act and where we are going in Nigeria. We are doomed.

skeletine:

It is a lie that OBJ and UMYA were not criticised by their ethnic governors. Please stop spreading falsehood. I wouldn't know if you were old enough and well aware when they ruled but they were variously and VERY well criticised, especially OBJ in the south-west.

Please for the sake of prosperity, stop spreding falsehood.

Thanks.

ochejoseph: Amaechi !!!!! I see pure Arrogance ,lack of Respect, Selfishness and Studpidity of the highest Order.
Just becos my Brothers in the North have offered You ZoBo plus or minus Fura da nono you have decided to sell your region .
Its a shame people like Amaech'i are allowed to speak at a University!

Amaechi May your wishes never come true

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

skeletine:

You're surely a phool. abi?

bibina:

He could only speak in his state university, which is in a comatose state, he is the visitor to the university so he can afford to go there and gather hungry people and deceive while they clap for him. I did a post graduate programme in that university, started in 2006 but did not finish till 2010, because of Ameachi's unnecessary interference with the university's management. As if that is not enough the university's electrical engineering department has not sent a single result to graduate school since 2005 till date. Myself and several of my course mates have resorted to forming committees to meet with HOD and co just for our results to be released three years after finishing a two year post graduate course which ran for five years because of Ameachi's autocratic hold on the university. This man cannot manage a state university and he is here talking about bad leadership in Nigeria. UST is still a glorified secondary school till date. If Celestine Omehia was allowed to govern Rivers State for just one term, God knows how good things would have turned.