Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in a chat with Vanguard reveals why President Jonathan is in trouble,the plans of Buhari Campaign Organisation which he is the DG and other issues.

Excerpts:

IS it true you funded the Buhari campaign for the primaries?

I did not. Buhari did not spend money for the primaries. Anybody who said they spent money should come forward with evidence. We have maintained consistently that Nigerians would fund us and that is why we have launched our campaign we are hoping that people will contribute. It is there on our website; you will just
look at the account and go and pay.And we are making sure that we convince General Buhari to be the sole signatory to that account.That is the way we would raise our money. We would not depend on rich men. You can’t fight the president on funds. See how much he raised from people who some of them collected the N2.3trillion on oil subsidy and are yet to pay back. If he is not prosecuting them for oil subsidy, why shouldn’t they pay for his election?

Symbol of change

The president is trying to raise over N200 million for power and then those people he is helping to raise the money are giving him N500million. We can’t fight the president with money, we will fight him with the people. We will fight the president by telling Nigerians that they have to vote for change and the symbol of change for us is the APC and
General Buhari. I will like to reiterate again that General Buhari did not pay anybody to vote for him at the primaries and he won because Nigerians want change.

How do you intend to combine your duty as director-general of the APC presidential campaign
with your duties as governor?

We will try. That is why there is a deputy governor. I have a deputy who is efficient and I will also from time to time go back to the state. But we need to deliver and we are all making sacrifices to
deliver this change. I don’t know how people feel.The president and the federal government have not denied the fact that N2.3trillion was taken for oil
subsidy and that was six months in 2011.Oil subsidy before that time was N300billion, so how did it rise to N2.3trillion and the people are not afraid? The federal government and all its agents were not afraid that N2.3trillion was taken.So, basically, I don’t mind what I can do legally to make sure that there is a better Nigeria.

What about the controversy that you have not paid eight months salaries?

Anybody who said I have not paid him salaries should come forward. We have paid up till
December; you can call Rivers State to confirm. I got a Blackberry message on Tuesday, saying;“Thank God, we are going home with our salary before Christmas.”

Payment of salaries

What we agreed in the cabinet was that we should make sure that everybody goes home with his salary before Christmas because as a Christian, I know that December 23 and 24 are the two days that Christians like to shop. I do not owe salaries in Rivers State. I am proud to say that I will pay salaries until I leave office and I will continue to
pursue development projects in the state.I was even surprised that the president’s spokesman even put it in one of his statements when he was responding to the accusation that the people who contributed to the N21billion are those
plundering our economy and he said after all,Governor Amaechi funded the election of Buhari
while he owes teachers eight months salary. And I asked the question, for you to be a presidential spokesman, facts and statistics must be on your
palm; you shouldn’t joke with that. But the man was just reacting to gossip.

What are Buhari’s programmes for Nigeria if he wins the 2015 election?

The message is simple. Buhari chased away Maitasene while he was Head of State. Many
Nigerians will remember that Maitasine was like Boko Haram and they were killing people in Borno and Kano and Buhari chased them away because
he is a strong leader.

Strong leader

We need a strong leader now to chase away Boko Haram or it will chase us away. Buhari will deal with insurgency because he has done that before.Many Nigerians would remember that when Borno was attacked by Chadian rebels, Buhari as an
officer of the Nigerian Army almost chased them into Ndjamena. He had crossed the Lake Chad when President Shehu Shagari called him back. If he didn’t do that, Borno would have been overrun by Chadian rebels and till today Chad has never crossed into Nigeria to fight us. It takes a strong leader to do that.We will deal with insurgency. The country may be
broke now because of two factors. The first which is very critical is the diversion of funds at the NNPC. That is the greatest factor for me. The level of diversion in the NNPC has affected everybody including me.We will deal with power because if you don’t address it, you cannot tackle unemployment. The essential factor for industrialisation from
elementary economics is power.
So, when you hear that people in the power sector contributed N500 million for the president’s re- election, where did they get it? First, you must pay your bill every month whether you like it or not;whether you have power or not. People are now being forced to pay N75 every month whether they use power or not. So, they are being punished for
not having power.

How do you respond to the claim by the PDP that Buhari is a semi-illiterate jackboot?

Our campaign will be issue-based. The president has a PhD in Zoology, how many farms do we have and how many people has he employed? If you say the president has a PhD and Buhari does not have one, let him show us his thesis. You are bringing yourself to the level of those who are making those allegations. Don’t bring yourself to that level, remain focused on the issues and let the president meet you there.

Many have defected from the PDP to the APC and as soon as they move they become progressives.What exactly does the APC stand for and what is
the ideology of the party?

How many people would say that when I was in the PDP, I wasn’t a progressive? Those who left the PDP are the progressive wing of the party.
Please tell me what else I need to do to become a progressive. The ideology of progressivism is
about the people and I bother about them a lot.That is why there is free education in my state which is not part of the PDP manifestoes. While in the PDP, I introduced free education and health care. What else would I need to become a progressive?
Those who studied at the University of Port-
Harcourt will say that I have been a Marxist from my university days till today. APC stands for a progressive ideology and you can see that in our manifestoes.

What is the assurance that Buhari will win the presidential election?

The simple electoral arithmetic is that before the president had the South-south and Southeast 100 percent, but now there are problems for the PDP in Cross Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States. It wasn’t like that before.By this time the PDP would have been dancing but have you seen them doing so? When they were doing the Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria(TAN) rallies, I knew that it will get to this point.You have not seen the PDP dancing or doing any major campaign because there are problems
everywhere. There is problem within the party in Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia States. So, it is no longer the same. The electoral map appears to have changed.

If we go to the north, does the APC have problems in Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa and Sokoto? Did we have problem in Lagos State? No, it is the PDP that has
problems in those states. So the political map has changed and that is why I believe that by God’s grace, Buhari and the APC will win. I am a Christian and I think positively.I am not from the north; I am not from the south. I am a Nigerian. I don’t believe in indigeneship, but
in citizenship. Buhari will win the 2015 presidential election by God’s grace and he will also win
because the political map does not favour the president anymore. In 2011, in the South-South and Southeast, we said he is our brother and now we are saying he is no longer our brother.

Source: http:///4pn

Let's vote already!

Make we rest...

Sai Ameachi!

ok.well said...
Let GEJ continue travelling.

An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep... Gej and his cohort are weak. We need change. Time up for una. Sai BUHARI #GMB ..

Amaechi is in bigger trouble with the way the tide will change against him in 2015

Amaechi will continue the nightmare till May 29th '15, after which he will then wake up to face reality.

...even if you bombers kill Jonathan; I will still vote for his corpse.

A dead GEJ is better than a voodoo economist who intends to stabilize international oil market using the Army as economic tool..

my prayer point in this season has been Buhari should win come 2015. we cannot endure another four years of purposeless and clueless administration.

AcidosisMega:
...even if you bombers kill Jonathan; I will still vote for his corpse.

A dead GEJ is better than a voodoo economist who intends to stabilize international oil market using the Army as economic tool..

You can go vote a corpse as your State Governor, not as our President. BTW, nothing will happen to GEJ. We'll send him packing at the polls!

Plz someone shuld remind ameachi tat in 2007 he was in court fighting the PDP for his ticket.so der is nothing new if others are doing the same thing today. He should stop basing his hope on the fact that PDP has problem in some state so der for APC will win. PDP is like a family at the 11hr u will see dem working together. beside, Mr DG u need to ask yourself why all the so called pipo that has left PDP has not joined APC to work agst GEJ instead they move to other related party that can still support the CinC.


Ameachi needs to wake up and base his masters campaign on issue bases and not some lazy man caculation.

Sai Buhari 2015. Nigerians say No to failure and corruption. The Zoologist is going home.

even if u dnt like amechi,put him as a person aside nd reflect on dis interview,tell ur self d truth has gej Don d basic things as a C in C to merit your vote.i would b very surprised if gej dosnt loose by a landslide,

this is a true patriot. Amaechj, your name will surely be in gold as far as the annals of this country is concerned. I've come to realise that God raises people of your type from generation to generation and they are rare. You are about to take over from Obasanjo. Ride on Amaechi.

chimere66:
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in a chat with Vanguard reveals why President Jonathan is in trouble,the plans of Buhari Campaign Organisation which he is the DG and other issues.

Excerpts:

IS it true you funded the Buhari campaign for the primaries?

I did not. Buhari did not spend money for the primaries. Anybody who said they spent money should come forward with evidence. We have maintained consistently that Nigerians would fund us and that is why we have launched our campaign we are hoping that people will contribute. It is there on our website; you will just
look at the account and go and pay.And we are making sure that we convince General Buhari to be the sole signatory to that account.That is the way we would raise our money. We would not depend on rich men. You can’t fight the president on funds. See how much he raised from people who some of them collected the N2.3trillion on oil subsidy and are yet to pay back. If he is not prosecuting them for oil subsidy, why shouldn’t they pay for his election?

Symbol of change

The president is trying to raise over N200 million for power and then those people he is helping to raise the money are giving him N500million. We can’t fight the president with money, we will fight him with the people. We will fight the president by telling Nigerians that they have to vote for change and the symbol of change for us is the APC and
General Buhari. I will like to reiterate again that General Buhari did not pay anybody to vote for him at the primaries and he won because Nigerians want change.

How do you intend to combine your duty as director-general of the APC presidential campaign
with your duties as governor?

We will try. That is why there is a deputy governor. I have a deputy who is efficient and I will also from time to time go back to the state. But we need to deliver and we are all making sacrifices to
deliver this change. I don’t know how people feel.
The president and the federal government have not denied the fact that N2.3trillion was taken for oil subsidy and that was six months in 2011.Oil subsidy before that time was N300billion, so how did it rise to N2.3trillion and the people are not afraid? The federal government and all its agents were not afraid that N2.3trillion was taken.So, basically, I don’t mind what I can do legally to make
sure that there is a better Nigeria.
http:///4pn

GEJ political carrier is finished.
what a hard punch from the DG himself

These PDP people can lie, so Amaechi has even paid december salary and they told us us he's owing 8months salaries, nawa o… While the dullard PDP government in Kogi state over here careless about workers.

chimere66:
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in a chat with Vanguard reveals why President Jonathan is in trouble,the plans of Buhari Campaign Organisation which he is the DG and other issues.

Excerpts:

Nigerians want change.


Strong leader

We need a strong leader now to chase away Boko Haram or it will chase us away. Buhari will deal with insurgency because he has done that before.Many Nigerians would remember that when Borno was attacked by Chadian rebels, Buhari as an
officer of the Nigerian Army almost chased them into Ndjamena. He had crossed the Lake Chad when President Shehu Shagari called him back. If he didn’t do that, Borno would have been overrun by Chadian rebels and till today Chad has never crossed into Nigeria to fight us. It takes a strong leader to do that.We will deal with insurgency. The country may be
broke now because of two factors. The first which is very critical is the diversion of funds at the NNPC. That is the greatest factor for me. The level of diversion in the NNPC has affected everybody including me.We will deal with power because if you don’t address it, you cannot tackle unemployment. The essential factor for industrialisation from
elementary economics is power.
So, when you hear that people in the power sector contributed N500 million for the president’s re- election, where did they get it? First, you must pay your bill every month whether you like it or not;whether you have power or not. People are now being forced to pay N75 every month whether they use power or not. So, they are being punished for not having power.

All those are Earthly political troubles.. Jesus till eternity.

This is the time for TB Joshua to forsee executive prison being constructed and jampacked because I'm seeing this coming to pass already.

issue-based campaign

Nigeria Sai BUHARI

issue-based

drshrewd:


GEJ political carrier is over.
what a hard punch from the DG himself

carrier or career? Does it mean u cant differentiate between the two? Keep hating

He has said nothing but the truth.He is a Very straightforward Man.

Nothing to write,than throw my support for GMB..

GMB,till PEJ improves on her grammar-which is nearly impossible..

Okay
Do you have your PVC already?

Na person whey get PVC go vote o Check Your PVC Status Here

Haha
The guy fit deceive himself
Infact aregbe SA one of the delegates in ur primary didn't deny hw dollars rains

They must have promise him minister of petroleum

It go soon clear for ur eyes like carnival

Hmmm....it is well...at this point...I don't even want to know about buhari or jonathan or amaechi or pdp or apc or The elections!...I just know 2015 is my year of Outstanding successs...the devaluation of The Naira can't devalue me,the storms of the Elections cannot Subdue me...2015 here I come!!

JonaTAN is going to be kicked out of Aso rock soon..