Exc2000:


he studied English language in university without connection, in an English speakin country with little need for English translators

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Exmilitant:
For those of us who know him personally, thats not his true story.

TheGoodJoe:


It is the other way around. GEJ used his office to influence Amaechi losing his role as head of Governor's forum. GEJ used his influence and got Amaechi suspended from PDP. GEJ used his influence to make it hard for Amaechi to continue delivering as a Governor, including using military.

Amaechi had to leave to APC to save his political career. Even though GEJ betrayed Amaechi, everyone turned on Amaechi for betraying. I ask, who betrayed who?

serverconnect:
Till today, we cannot still solve the problems of unemployment.

Agboriotejoye:

Yeah. Little need. How many Nigerians could speak English fluently in 1987? The guy is right. He could not have been unemployed for long. Even Amaechi alluded to being offered employment by NTA without asking. Read between the lines. He joined cause he wasn't employed then cause it was the next thing that came to his mind possibly due to his father being a politician too.

Agboriotejoye:

Of course. Tell us more pls

dyfaze:
All these our polithiefcians can lie for Africa.. Like giving ridiculus excuses. You graduated at that young age in 1987 and you could not get a job, oga stop lying because during that time, Nigeria Govt still value graduates a lot, at worst, Teaching job is guaranteed. Having been a Union President, I believe politics is in ur blood and You deliberately joined because your father was a politician.

Agboriotejoye:

Not true. His problems started with Patience in okrika.

Esseite:
The same unemployemnt that has pushed you into politics has pushed more to robbery, ritual, drugs, terrorism and all sorts of crimes...

How has your Government approached the issue having first hand experience of it.

TheGoodJoe:


Patience at Okrika incident, the destructions of Shanties and Patience insulting Amaechi live on TV, I watched it live on Silverbird TV, was not enough reason for the President to turn his back on the most influential Governor in Nigeria who was a shining light of PDP and the Niger Delta region.

The point is that, Amaechi did nothing wrong for the kind of backlash metted to him by Goodluck. Also Goodluck was the one who betrayed Amaechi by using his Federal might to destroy the progress of the State. Then removing Amaechi as head of the Governors Forum and suspending him indefinitely from the party.

Who betrayed who?

sageb:
my man, i remember vividly all these, you forget to add the Soku wells conflict.

TheGoodJoe:


Patience at Okrika incident, the destructions of Shanties and Patience insulting Amaechi live on TV, I watched it live on Silverbird TV, was not enough reason for the President to turn his back on the most influential Governor in Nigeria who was a shining light of PDP and the Niger Delta region.

The point is that, Amaechi did nothing wrong for the kind of backlash metted to him by Goodluck. Also Goodluck was the one who betrayed Amaechi by using his Federal might to destroy the progress of the State. Then removing Amaechi as head of the Governors Forum and suspending him indefinitely from the party.

Who betrayed who?

Exmilitant:
why do you wish to know the other side amaechi? It is not palatable.

sageb:
my man, i remember vividly all these, you forget to add the Soku wells conflict.

TheGoodJoe:


Amaechi created lots of jobs as Governor of Rivers State. From agriculture through the establishment of banana plantation, cassava farm and the massive Songhai farm project. His teachers training program had thousands of teachers employed. His Timariv project employed thousands.

He sent lots of students, hundreds of them overseas on scholarship, many of them came back and got employed.

His expansion of The Promise Franchise through a Public Private Partnership created hundreds of jobs.

To mention a few.

Exc2000:


English Litrature not English Language.. or B.Ed English Education, and if Ameachi claim he went into politics because he was poor and unemployed, I think its baseless arguing about what we don't know, i'll just have to agree with him because its his life story

Agboriotejoye:

English Studies and Literature combine honours. Not that it makes any difference in terms of being employable though.

Where did he mention being poor? Did you not read the part of the NTA interview and how he already joined politics before his employment letter reached him?

Like I said, read between the lines. At least he could have taken up the employment when it came or which political post was he already occupying in 1987 when we had a military govt in place?

There was no silver spoon. I didn’t even know there was anything like that.

One would then have to sleep on the ‘passage’ because it was a tenement building of about 12 rooms. If one was unlucky to have slept off by 2am, that was when my father would come out with a cane and flog

Exc2000:




if I am to comprehend this part clearly, he went to visit someone at NTA and someone loved his voice and asked him to audition which he did, but he had joined politics before any employment letter or employment came.. simply put he was jobless when he joined politics with only prospects of NTA job may or may not come





this part of the passage suggest they were prolly poor, besides he had always said it in different interviews that they were so poor he had to go peep at TV from there next door neighbors

Agboriotejoye:

Good you read it yourself now. That shows you getting a job was not that difficult or do you really think anyone gives a flying Bleep about your voice texture to offer you a job out of nowhere in today's Nigeria? A federal job for that matter.

Besides, being poor while growing up does not imply being poor at that particular stage of his life when his father had already become a councillor. Or is a councillor in those times a poor man? Read between the lines bro

Agboriotejoye:

I'm not into who betrayed who. What I'm saying is that was the turning point of their relationship. Mind you, Amaechi also acted rashly on that occasion and so did Patience. If you ask me, I'll say Amaechi should have been better behaved. On the issue of betrayal, most people tend to look at it from the angle of Amaechi being from the Niger delta turning against a president from the same region by joining outsiders to unseat him.

TheGoodJoe:


I watched the Okrika incident and to the best of my knowledge, she visited. Amaechi had destroyed some shanties which he was to use for a developmental project.

Patience came to visit. It was raining and Amaechi was even holding the Umbrella for her. Keep in mind, this was the Governor of Rivers State. That was a clear show of solidarity to Patience.

Then she started warning Amaechi. I was not a fan of Amaechi then but I exclaimed, "Who does she think she is?" Being the President's wife gave her no right to point fingers and warn the Governor to take permission from people on the land before carrying out any action.

How?

She continued relentlessly. It got to a point, Amaechi closed the Umbrella, leaving the rain pooing at them and walked away.

That was no strike from Amaechi. The blows came from GEJ. All the blows was from him to destroy Amaechi. From Patience reaction, she already had a bad blood for Amaechi, probably listening to unfounded rumours.

Either way, Amaechi was without a party for over a year because he was suspended. There was nothing else to do but join the emerging force of APC.

People look at it as a Southerner removing a Southern President but the truth is that all the betrayals came from GEJ's camp, including the assault on the State House of Assembly.

Amaechi was the one betrayed by GEJ.

Exc2000:


a son of a politician could visit NTA and get asked to go for an audition based on his fathers goodwill and his voice, but that doesn't mean jobs where everywhere... yes unemployment rate wasn't as crazy as it is today, but I still remember many peoples main reason of running out of the country in the late 80s and 90s still remained poverty and unemployment especially after Babangida's SAP

and I agree with you.. his father might be a rich councilor, he could as well be a poor one, only Ameachi can tell, and since all politicians lie maybe people who know him

Pr0cter:
At least he has now successfully eradicated hunger from his generation

samuel1986:
You joined politics in the university, but unemployment made you to join politics.
So you were unemployed as an undergraduate?
Uncle you can lie oooooooooooooo.
There's God oooooooo.

themonk:

Tinubu will never agree he joined politics for money or because of unemployment. He will rather say he came to be a leader blah blah blah

Exc2000:


I have heard the story countless times and no matter who is telling it Wike acted out of over ambition and greed being fooled by his new masters , The jonathans and the Odilis... a local government chairman, chief of staff, that thinks he has arrived after his oga nominated him to the higher table

desiredhome:

Like him or hate him he is one of the best governor we have had in Rivers State, you will see that when you remove sentiments/hatred from your heart.....
Rome was not built in a day.....if Amachi was allowed to complete his second tenor, and the next governor to build on his blueprint Rivers State would've been finer/better than it is today...