Amaechi Rebuffs Mbu: You
Are No Lion But Patience
Jonathan's Shameless,
Corrupt Attack Dog
“How can a man who has no strength
of character to be himself, be a man
and stand up to a woman, a man
who willingly submits himself to
serve as the puppet of a woman call
himself a lion? How ironic! Mr. Mbu,
no lion behaves like that!" Amaechi
said.

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n a press statement today, Rivers State
Governor Rotimi Amaechi harshly shot
back at former Commissioner of Police in
Rivers State, Joseph Mbu. Mbu, who
recently described himself as a lion who
"tamed" the governor, was today addressed as
a "sad" and "pathetic", a man who
"completely lacks the steel and strength of
character of a lion, and is rather a shameless,
corrupt puppet and toothless attack dog of a
woman."
A obvious reference to Mbu's relationship
with the First Lady of Nigeria, Patience
Jonathan, Amaechi furthered, criticizing the
former Commissioner's lack of character and
integrity during critical moments in Rivers
State. “How can a man who has no strength of
character to be himself, be a man and stand
up to a woman, a man who willingly submits
himself to serve as the puppet of a woman call
himself a lion? How ironic! Mr. Mbu, no lion
behaves like that!"
Finishing, Amaechi said, "Mbu shamelessly
and corruptly turned himself into the
toothless attack dog of this woman to fight
the government and people of Rivers State.
Mbu is a disgrace to the police force."
Read the full release below.
Rivers State Governor and chairman of the
Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) Rt. Hon.
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has dismissed
comments by the infamous and draconian
former Commissioner of Police in Rivers State
Joseph Mbu, who while apparently referring to
Governor Amaechi described himself as a lion
who tamed the Governor in Port Harcourt.
Mbu, who was recently promoted Assistant
Inspector-General of Police, said this while
handling over to the FCT Commissioner of
Police, Wilson Inalegwu, on Monday in Abuja.
However, Governor Amaechi scoffed at Mbu’s
claims to be a lion. In a statement by his
spokesman David Iyofor in Port Harcourt on
Tuesday, the Governor described Mbu as a
puppet who completely lacks the steel and
strength of character of a lion, and is rather a
shameless, corrupt puppet and toothless
attack dog of a woman.
The statement reads: “indeed its very sad,
pathetic, however ironic that Mbu called
himself a lion. Which lion? This character call
Mbu Joseph Mbu completely lacks the
courage, steel and strength of character of a
lion. Rather he’s a shameless, corrupt puppet
of a woman. This is a man paid by taxpayers
to protect, secure and serve the interests of
the people. But when he was in Rivers State,
he spurned the people, he trampled on the
masses and rather elected to be the partisan
servant of one woman, to be the woman’s tool
in causing disaffection, confusion and crises
in Rivers State. Mbu shamelessly and
corruptly turned himself into the toothless
attack dog of this woman to fight the
government and people of Rivers State.”
“How can a man who has no strength of
character to be himself, be a man and stand
up to a woman, a man who willingly submits
himself to serve as the puppet of a woman call
himself a lion? How ironic! Mr. Mbu, no lion
behaves like that! You are a disgrace and
shame to the Nigerian Police Force.”
Governor Amaechi maintained that Mbu
epitomizes everything that is wrong with the
police in Nigeria. He said Mbu not only
disobeyed the Inspector General of Police
during his time in Rivers State but also clearly
acted lawlessly, like a man who is above the
law and in fact, turned himself into the
law. “All these, Mbu did because he was the
puppet of one woman, a woman who clearly
has no constitutional role to play in the
governance of Rivers State or Nigeria. Mbu’s
only claim to fame and prominence is because
he has turned himself into a willing tool and
servant of this woman. Mbu is a very bad
example of a police officer.”
Amaechi recounted that when the former
Rivers police commissioner finally left the
state, Mbu disobeyed the instruction of the
Inspector General of Police to pack out of his
official residence in Rivers State.
“Mbu refused to pack out because he said he
would come back here (to Rivers State) as the
Commissioner to organize the 2015
elections. When eventually he packed out and
this is a long time after his successor had
resumed here, he took everything including
the carpet and nothing has happened to him,
nobody has punished him for that. During his
time here, when we hold Security Council
meetings in Rivers State, he goes to report the
proceedings of the meetings, what everyone
said, to his woman puppeteer. What a shame.
Mbu is a disgrace to the Police Force.”
The statement concluded that a thousand
Mbus can neither "tame" (using the word of
Mbu) Governor Amaechi nor the people of
Rivers State to surrender their constitutionally
guaranteed democratic rights to anyone, no
matter how highly placed.
DAVID IYOFOR
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of
Rivers State
September 16, 2014