tochman:

are u a civil servant, a teacher or are u responsible for paying them? How much are teachers being paid? My sister hasn't been given an account number yet, not to talk of payment and shes a teacher. Why did u skip the corpers and road part. Amechi is a thief and so is his opposition. My friend, quit being a politician and face facts squarely.

Your sister has not been given account number yet? Is it the government that gives account number? Are you sure your sister was employed as a teacher. Yes, I am a civil servant, and I know quite a number of people who were employed as teachers, both family members and friends, so I know what I am talking about. Your sister is supposed to submit her account number when she is doing biometrics. Ask your sister well, she is either lying to you or she was not employed at all. As for the corpers, I don't know anything about that. Don't go making allegations online you can not prove.

rawpadgin:
I take it u don't have a local government chairman in ur area, neither did u have a state governor
gej don suffer for naive nagerians hand!

Did you read the op's post before commenting? The op said GEJ gave an underperforming governor a national award, he did'nt say GEJ is responsible for the rot in Abia.

phantom:
.....and the search for GEJs projects in rivers state continues.......

And the gullible Rivers people still want to vote their "brother" who does not give a damn about them.

phantom:

okirika ring road
bolo bridge
airport to imo boundary(which happens to be jonathans responsibility)

Plus 5 model health centres in Okrika alone, Wakama bridge, road to Ogu

tochman:
U Guys are here praising amechi. Teachers haven't been paid for 7 months, even civil Servants and corpers. All being owed. Road projects on stand still. The mono rail is a waste. My neighbor was recently evicted by my landlord because he couldn't meet up with the rent (as a civil servant). Amechi has been diverting state funds for his political agenda. Can't Bahari, the incorruptible judge, call him to order. Is this how apc want to transform nigerian? By bribing over 20k ppl to sing their praises in a stadium?? Tufiakwa... May God help Nigeria

Do you have to lie to show your hatred for Amaechi? Civil servants are not being owed, except for october. The september salaries were delayed and that was because allocations were delayed, even GEJ confirmed that allocations for september were paid a little over a week ago. All newly employed teachers are presently being paid, except for arrears being owed them. The government has started paying the arrears in bits for 2 months to most of the teachers. Please, don't spread falsehoods, or atleast confirm from civil servants or teachers before you start peddling rumours.

He has done his work and served his God. He is resting now from his labour.

ratiken:
Don't get it twisted, buhari can never be president of a united nigeria. Never.
Even if he wins d election which in itself is impossible.

Are you God? Don't be so sure. Nothing is impossible. With a free and fair elections,its going to be difficult for GEJ to win.

theoctopus:


Even if we are to take your 21 Billion lies, it will still be a mega fraud!

This is not even a step! This is a serious misstep! Maybe you should go back to your English books.

You forget that a lot of structures gave way to the monorail project and compensations were paid.

crisycent:
How can 270 people be writing waec at the same time? Is it the whole village that's using that centre for exam? I can't imagine a school with 270 s.s.3 students.

Stop commenting if you don't have full details. People from 5 villages wrote the exams in that centre because it was considered safer than the other villages, so not only girls from Chibok were there.
Gej acknowledges that girls were abducted and he is doing everything possible to release them. The committee he set up agreed after their investigations that some girls were abducted. All all these conspiracy theories, you are only painting Gej as a fool who does not know what he is doing.

man4many9:
please as a concerned igbo man i would like to ask what is the state of work on the 2nd niger bridge? Or is it going to be another round of campaign promise during the presidential rally. Please chino and co do us a favour by updating us with the latest happening.
God bless igboland

Months after the ground breaking, nothing is happening there yet.

Mayydayy:
Dear God.i make a humble prayer to you today
pls.
dont allow Nyesom Wike become the governor of Rivers state.the little peace we are enjoying here today was hard earned.
he will turn our dear Rivers to a war zone once more.

Amen o

Wike ready to maim, kill and destroy just to be governor. Rivers people be wise, if this man becomes governor, what was experienced during Peter Odili's time will be child's play.

otokx:


Do not be so sure, actually want him to pick the pdp ticket so we can have the ultimate battle between Amaechi and Wike. It will be spectacular, the winner will take every, the looser must go on exile just like in the movies.

Is Amaechi contesting for a 3rd term? Please we need a leader in Rivers 2015 not a fighter. Wike has nothing to offer Rivers state. He is just excessively drunk with the ambition of becoming governor for selfish reasons.

oneeast2:
Wike must rule Rivers state not this time we am supposed to partake in Rivers oil money flow that some NANS will start protesting on behalf of their 'stomach infrastructure'..

Let us see who be that person that will stand on our way to the BRICKS HOUSE!

Don't be fooled by the support of Pej for Wike. Power belongs to God and rest with the people. Rivers state can not go to the dogs.

agamenon:
Why is Rotimi Amechi wasting Rivers state fund,what is the need of renting crowed in the name of NANS,pls,let us not Politicized nans.

What has Amaechi got to do with it? Did'nt you read the banners? Polytechnic students protesting mishandling of the strike by Wike and you are blaming Amaechi.

A leader indeed! Competence, intergrity and vision. This is the kind of leader Nigeria needs.

The new face of PDP rigging. Unfortunately, they met their match in Osun electorates.

Instead of Wike to think of how to resolve the ASUU strike, they are playing politics with it. Let them keep paying jobless people to put the blame on the opposition. This shows how clueless this govt is.
So Amaechi and APC now control ASUU, nlc and maybe NARD? Then GEJ must be a very bad leader.

phantom: bloody charlatans! Bad mouthing a well thought out project by a man that, all of them put together cannot hold a candle to. i.diots .IF rivers people hand over power to these people with their eyes wide open in this age and time,then they deserve to remain in bondage for fifty years.

God forbid! Power can never go to Wike and his group. Wike is just being childish, the man is not wise at all. I don't know anybody who got into office fighting the governor the way he's going about it. The man has allowed his unbridled desire to be governor of R/S and the seeming support he is getting from the president to blind and consume him." Whom the gods wants to destroy, they first make mad" Wike is just destroying his own political career.

maimalari:
Opposition politicians opposed to the Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi have threatened to launch a destructive attack on the state government owned Banana plantation in Tia Local Government council.

The politicians issued the threat at the ward and council inauguration of members of Grassroot Development Initiative in Tai Local Government Area of the state.

Supervising minister of education, Nyesom Wike had mocked the state’s agricultural project calling on the people of Ogoni to reject such projects.

According to him, “there is nothing called new PDP. They have been defeated in court. They have been defeated in INEC. Nobody will challenge Mr. President. For all those intimidations, be rest assured you will get all the necessary protections within the ambits of the Law. Nobody will intimidate you.

“You must know people who mean well for you. You all have to know that the Ogonis are not monkeys. When I hear people say they have something for Ogoni, the only industry they have for you is a banana industry. Holy Ghost fire for all the people, for all those that conspired that there is nothing that is good for the Ogoni people except to make them have bananas. Ogoni people have paid their dues. They are not meant to be eating bananas”.

Also, a former Senator from the state, Lee Maeba said he would personally take the lead to ravage the plantation.

“We are not monkeys and we are not growing bananas at all. They have been talking on the radio that they uncovered a plot. There is no need to uncover anything, I said I will lead a well-meaning protest of all the Ogonis and by the time we return there will be no more bananas”, he threatened.


Maeba also alleged that the banana plantation was one of the factors undermining the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report:
“I said it in Bori that after listening to the cries of the Ogonis, they agreed that the soil of Ogoni is contaminated and there must be clean-up and compensation. When the compensation team arrived from New York, Pharo led a group of agriculturist and went to establish banana farm and told them that the soil is good that they should not pay compensation; they should not clean up the land.

“But with those bananas, they are using to deceive our people, to deceive the United Nations, to deceive the Federal Government that the soil is clean. We shall clean up the bananas and clean up the soil”, he added.

In a related development, a former Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche has said Governor Amaechi would be made to account for all the allocations he had received.

Nwuche accused Governor Amaechi of playing politics with fund meant for the state.

“What pains me most is that somebody we freely gave a mandate to and placed in Government House has forsaken the state and going on adventures.

“He has bought a plane. He will carry journalists and they will go to a place called Songhai Farms, they will go to one medical centre, they will go to one school. They go to one school all the time as if we have no schools before.

“How can you spend over N3 trillion only on schools and medical centres. I challenge our Governor to a debate. He should come out and account to the people what he has been doing with our money for the past 6years”, he said.

Nwuche who is also the immediate past acting National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, tasked the people of the state to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election.

The banana plantation is one of the major agricultural projects of the Rivers State government, which is jointly owned by Union De Initiative SA DE CV of Mexico and has taken about the sum of N10 billion.

http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/10/14/wike-others-threaten-to-destroy-amaechis-n10billion-banana-plantation/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wike-others-threaten-to-destroy-amaechis-n10billion-banana-plantation

What a shame!
Is this what politics is all about?
These people go about threatening the peace of the state, the police does nothing about it. The same police is quick to clamp down on other gatherings whether political or not.
The more reason why GEJ will never be re-elected come 2015.
Ogoni people over to you, are you going to allow a 2 time senator who has nothing to show for it and a power drunken minister deceive you. We sure do know who means well for the Ogonis.

Lushgreen:
Considering Wike's growing influence in Rivers State, Amaechi made a big mistake of nominating him as a minister thinking that would weaken his structure within Rivers State. Amaechi is interested in the Senatorial seat in 2015 and Wike is also interested in the same seat hence the unending battles.

The First Lady wants one of the Sekibos


NB: These are my thoughts and are in no way
statements of fact.

Wike intends to be governor not a senator. The fight has not yet started, yes Pej wants any of the sekibo's. But Wike is so fixated on becoming governor. After they have used Wike , will he give up his ambitions for sekibo's?

prophylaxis: D writer of ds post is nt a rivers man n is capping rubbish.hw can u say dt odili n amaechi r both from ikwerre. Dis put ur whole article in doubt

Am sure he meant to say they are both uplanders.

These people were so sure Amaechi was going to be removed today, because according to them GEJ has told the supreme court to rule against Amaechi. So, after all the noise they still ask for adjournment.

Good political strategy by TP.
Better to be neutral abi? Just in case.
Btw, I used to admire TP a lot because he was the only one i know that stood up against Odili.
To me Tonye as governor in 2015 will be a million times better than Wike or any of the Sekibos.

segzyj: This is cruel , how can you gathered 13,000 Souls in a place without informing the security agents in the first place?.... Sorry,u got what best fit you.....Kudos to the police for doing that

Kudos to the police for pouring tear gas at innocent nigerians? SMH. Tomorrow when you become a victim of police brutality, i hope you will also give them kudos.
Fyi, the police were fully in the know, Wike and Mbu are only on a mission to frustrate the efforts of the state govt. But tell your paymaster Wike that no matter what he does, he will never be governor of Rivers state.

Okoro2015: The Police is right on this one. Imagine coming from hinterlands of Ruvers state to collect appointment letter and all at the same day for 13000 workers in 2013? I think it was a planned political rally and the appointment letter is APC membership form.

You think its a planned political rally?
Must you comment if you don't know what is ground? Those people are teachers, not political thugs. They have all gone a recruitment process and training before they were asked to pick up their deployments.
What has come over nigerians? Instead of commending a governor who is doing his bit to improve education and reduce unemployment, you are here condemning him because he has a different stance with the president.
So the poli

What has come over Wike and Mbu? Why subject innocent citizens to such because of political differences. So teachers coming to pick up deployment letters are gathering to protest against GEJ?
Let Wike keep deceiving himself , he will never be governor of Rivers state.

Op is indirectly elevating Amaechi to the status of a president and Rivers a country.
Otherwise, why would you be comparing a state to a country.

isi4:

Jonathan not in New York with 600-man delegation – Abati
on september 22, 2013 at 10:29 pm in news
Reuben Abati Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) has denied reports that the President is leading a 600-man delegation to the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Abati made this known in a statement which reads thus
‘We have noted with regret the continuation today by Saharareporters.com of its usual scurrilous and baseless attacks on the Jonathan Administration with publication of a false claim that the President is leading a 600-man delegation to the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
While we trust that discerning members of the public who are already very familiar with Sahara Reporters’ usual fare of mischief, outright falsehood and erroneous speculation will rightly dismiss this latest claim as a fresh manifestation of the online medium’s ill-will towards President Jonathan and his administration, we wish to affirm for the benefit of the unwary that there is absolutely no truth in the allegation that the President took a 600-man delegation to New York.
There is also no substance to the rehashed charge of profligacy which Sahara reporters annually makes against the President when he leads Nigeria’s delegation to the UN General Assembly.
The truth is that less than 30 persons arrived in New York with the President this morning as members of his entourage. Other than them, the only other persons who are in New York for the UN General Assembly with the President’s knowledge and approval are relevant ministers and few essential aides.
President Jonathan’s official delegation is definitely not out of proportion with Nigeria’s size, role and relevance in Africa and the global community.
Sahara Reporters’ claim that the President’s delegation is the largest at this year’s General Assembly is an unjustifiable fabrication which can never stand any rigorous test of truthfulness.
We are certainly aware that many Nigerian citizens are currently on visits to New York. These persons are here for their own purposes and neither President Jonathan nor his administration has any responsibility for the presence of these persons in New York.
We will not be surprised if it is such persons who include Nigerian businessmen who are here for an African Business Roundtable event, members of non-governmental organizations and tourists that Sahara Reporters has been counting, for the sole purpose of mischief-making, as “members of the Nigerian delegation”.

Abati has indirectly confirmed SR story.
What i understand from the denial:
GEJ's official delegation is 30
There are other ministers and essential aides who are there on GEJ's approval. (maybe about 200)
"There are other businessmen, Ngo members and tourists.
Certainly every other person who travelled with them will be lumped under the last group because they actually have no business in the UNGA but sight seeing.

kopite: Guys......I just contacted my friend that is part of GEJ's delegation to UNGA, and he got angry with the report. How can GEJ go with 600people? is it possible to have 600 people in an entourage? we just believe any crap posted here on nairaland. Please stop the defamation and lets all be objective. 600 people? haba!!!!

Were you expecting him to confirm the story?
BTW, this your friend in GEJ's delegation, what is his office and what role will he play at the UNGA?
Better still, your friend should furnish us with the list of delegates.

Nigeria sure deserves better.

kingoflag:

Is power in the hands of the North now with Boko Haram, your President becoming MEND's spokesman, and planning bombing fiestas with Henry Okah while telling him to implicate IBB and co before setting him up and ensuring that he gets jailed in South Africa?

The last has not been heard about the 1st Oct bombing.
While Okah has been convicted in SA, Dokpesi, the man suspected to have made the arrangement with him is now GEJ's strong loyalist.
There is no news yet about the conviction of the boys who were arrested for carrying out the attacks.
The truth will be out one day.....