Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Power, Beks Dagogo-
Jack, has said President Goodluck Jonathan is more of a
Kalabari man that Governor Chibuike Amaechi can ever be.
He was reacting to a statement credited to Governor Amaechi
who accused President Jonathan of taking sides in the Soku
oil wells crisis between Bayelsa and Rivers states. The
governor was also accused of using uncomplimentary words
against the president and his wife at different fora and on
radio stations in Port Harcourt.

According to a statement signed by Dagogo-Jack, while
Governor Amaechi’s colleagues were working very closely with
federal agencies to attract projects to their states, he was
more interested in carrying out propaganda wars against
Jonathan.

The statement read in part: “I must say that it is an insult on
the intelligence of Kalabari people for Governor Amaechi to
keep saying that the Trans-Kalabari Road which he has since
abandoned from the inception of his government should now
be seen as a federal inflicted problem to the state.

“Amaechi is known to have spent billions of dollars accruing
to our state from mainly Kalabari and Orashi oil and gas
bearing-communities on all sorts of projects like the
landscaping of Port Harcourt city, the needless new state
university campus, the ubiquitous greater Port Harcourt and
the dead-on-arrival Monorail, to name a few, none of which
curiously is located in these oil bearing-communities.

“Yet, the only economically sensible project in Kalabariland, the
Trans-Kalabari Road, which he has refused to fund since he
became the governor of our state, is now a tool for his
masterplan to create enemies for President Jonathan in
Kalabariland. I want to assure Amaechi that Kalabari people
have been impoverished and emasculated by his deliberate
policies over the past eight years.

“On the Soku/Nembe oil wells boundary delineation, Amaechi
probably doesn’t know that Kalabari people have over 100
years of history with their Nembe brothers, with long
established methods for conflict management and resolution.
We do not need an Amaechi to either induce or incite us to go
to war with ourselves.

The billions of naira that we hear have
been reportedly wasted to support anti-Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) activities in the state and nationwide are enough
to transform Kula and Soku into one of the best tourist
destinations in West Africa. While these communities remain
totally neglected and abandoned, Amaechi continues to wage
an unnecessary media war, ostensibly on behalf of these
communities, against President Jonathan.

“It is sad that today Amaechi sees himself as the all-knowing
trustee and keeper of Kalabari people’s rights, and feels
entitled to drag them to wherever he wants to, by their noses. I
plead with our governor to please leave Kalabari people alone.
Let me state that President Jonathan is more Kalabari than
Governor Amaechi can ever hope to be. So, the earlier he
wakes up from his slumber to face the reality on the ground,
the better for him and his diminishing followers, most of
whom are indeed eagerly waiting for the right time to do the
needful.”


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=85115

I've always wondered, why a governor (and his party goons) would want to create tension or war between two neighboring communities ( Soku/Nembe).

What does he and his party hope to gain if they eventually incite them to war? I'm sure as a governor ( CSO of Rivers), there are so many ways to resolve conflicts than going on radio and pages of newspapers to proclaim that GEJ through the Soku community wants to take their oil wells.

if he has a genuine grievance or cause for alarm, he should take it to court, after all he of all people would have the utmost confidence in the judiciary after what they did for him/democracy.


I sincerely believe that since Amaechi joined APC, he talks more like a tout/illiterate than a governor. ....he should stop talking too much too, ppl get tired when someone talks too much

Who cares? Don't call me ur brother while u are only bent on cheating me.

There will be peace in rivers state, Amaechi will come and go.

Amaechi has a serious drug problem. The sooner he admits this the earlier his journey to recover his sanity.

Amaechi is now trying to align himself with the coastal people of Rivers given that there is genuine clamor for power rotation from the Ikweres to the coastal regions.

RevDesmondJuju:
Amaechi has a serious drug problem. The sooner he admits this the earlier his journey to recover his sanity.

Amaechi is now trying to align himself with the coastal people of Rivers given that there is genuine clamor for power rotation from the Ikweres to the coastal regions.

He's ikwerre people abandoned and disassociate themselves from him. Didn't you read the articles they posted few months ago. Now the Kalahari are disassociating him. The guy refuse to see the hand writing on the wall. The more he speaks, the more enemies he's making for himself.