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Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers was blocked by presidential bodyguards from exchanging pleasantries with President Goodluck Jonathan at a dinner hosted by the president on Wednesday night to avert a possible breach of security, the Special Adviser to the president on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, has said.
The Punch newspaper quoted Mr. Gulak as saying the President arrived the event before the governor and was already seated before Mr. Amaechi and his entourage arrived and that it was a breach of protocols for the Rivers governor to approach the president after arriving late.
He suggested that the bodyguards only did their job, which is to protect the president and other officials at the event.
Mr. Gulak was responding to comments by the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria, which criticized the president over the incident.
The paper quoted Mr. Gulak as saying, “The President has a good relationship with all state governors and he meets with them regularly. The case in point is a pure security issue and it should be treated as a security issue that should not be politicised.
“The question the ACN and others who may want to politicise this issue need to ask is whether the President arrived at the venue of the dinner and was already seated before the governor arrived.
“Usual practice across the world is that once the President arrives a place, nobody whether a governor or not, is allowed entrance. That is the protocol. Even(Barack) Obama of the United States cannot be on his seat and a governor will be allowed to come in.
“If that was the situation in this case that the President was already on his seat, it would have been a breach of protocol and security for any security person to allow the governor access to the President. Such a security person would have been sanctioned if he had done that.”
The ACN, had in a statement by its spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, berated President Jonathan over the incident, and called for a probe.
Mr. Mohammed said, “We are making this call because we do not believe that, in spite of the reported frosty relations between the two, President Jonathan – as the father of the nation – will lend the weight of his high office to such a demeaning action as exhibited by the presidential security personnel.
“To believe that anyone occupying the esteemed office of the President of one of Africa’s most important nations will be a party to a situation in which any security aide will wilfully fence a state chief executive from paying his respect to the President at such an open gathering will be to think the worst of the occupier of that office.
“That is why we have chosen not to believe that this indeed occurred, and why we are calling on Mr. President to tell Nigerians that ‘it ain’t so’ “We shudder to think of what efforts are being made – including the use of national institutions – to undermine Gov. Amaechi if the treatment reportedly meted out to him at the dinner has the approval of the powers that be. We are even more worried at what will happen to a governor from the opposition who falls out of favour with the President, if a governor from the same party as the President can be so publicly humiliated.”
A presidential bodyguard had on Wednesday night stopped Mr. Amaechi, from getting close to President Jonathan to pay homage.
Mr. Amaechi, who is the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), and his loyalists arrived the venue when the event was already in progress.
They came in from the Rivers Governor’s lodge where they met earlier for about 15 minutes and then adjourned to honour the President’s invitation.
On his entourage were Governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); Adams Oshiomole (Edo); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano); Abdulazeez Kyari-(Zamfara); Muritala Nyako (Adamawa) and Magartakada Wamakko (Sokoto).
Governor Amaechi, after settling down, got up and made his way towards where President Jonathan was seated in company of Presidents Joyce Banda of Malawi and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, apparently to pay homage.
However, the bodyguard blocked the governor from meeting the President. The Governor resisted for a while but had to return to his seat when it was glaring the bodyguard won’t allow him.
The Rivers Governor has in the past months been ostracized by the presidency and his party, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, a development usually blamed on the suspicion that Mr. Amaechi was positioning himself for a vice-presidential slot in the 2015 election.
Already, the governor has been suspended from the PDP after he won reelection as chairman of the NGF, despite opposition from his party and the presidency.
Federal aviation authorities have also grounded an aircraft belonging to his state, claiming its importation papers were not in order. The state government has denied the allegation.


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Meox: no be him carry those bags of cement na people around him, thats how the jazz works.

got me reeling in laughter, much like those fetish guys that will take 12 bottles of Star lager while somebody next to them is actually the one feeling 'drinking those stuff' what a world we live in!

What a drama! As for Amaechi, he is a goner politically

This is pure charm at its peak, if not how do you explain a medium-sized man (perhaps around 85-90kg) messing with 300kg of cement

I just like this brave Air Force Flight Lieutenant, who laid the foundation for a working and modern Ghana of today, we nearly had our own Jerry Rawlings in Nigeria, in the person of Kaduna Nzeogwu, unfortunately he was not meant to be as a result of the implementation!

chidindufrank: No big deal. Anaconda is not a dangerous snake. It doesn't swallow humans. Don't mind ice cube's movie with Jennifer Lopez

Don't even try that dangerous game, for strength you need muscles and an Anaconda and other giant constrictors are nothing but 'roll of muscles' Meaning? a 12-foot Anaconda is strong enough to kill a full grown man how much more a far bigger specimen!

..The Man Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, remains the best thing that had ever happened to this great country since Independence! @ Op, you are perfectly right about JONATHAN!

sunny63: Big liar,wot do u knw abt politics?No man can stop jonathan 4m winning 2015 election,even amaechi n his group will give his state 2 PDP during d presidential Poll

Quit replying ninnies, their brains are not wired for simple LOGIC!

CHESSBOARD: which beaf is this

The fake one!

Humans find themselves in the current precarious situations of life because we try to veer off the original plan of God by trying to be as God! Animals are still within the sphere God put them, the more reason they have no cause to worry about there welfare except of course for the 'domesticated ones'! Nice piece and a thought-provoking one for that matter @OP!

the drama rages on, the stupid Governor thought he could eat his cake and hace it, I wonder what the kleptomaniac is still doing in PDP, I thought by now he should have cross-carpeted to APC where he could be at peace with his gangs! They take Jonathan to be a lilly-livered man, I am watching when 2015 will unfolds, Amaechi deserves to be severely dealt with for going against his 'brother'! He should go and read the book, '48 Laws of Power', foolish Governor with no brain

That is human beings for you, we are the same, the only difference is the way Governments affect citizens of different countries through their respective policies!

The Scar of "the Casualties Biafra" will forever haunt us all as a Nation except it is addressed once and for all

donchris999: Up Tinubu! Up Acn! Up Apc! Daddy we love you. You can even sell us we dont care daddy! We love you sir! Daddy we want mummy oluremi in alausa in 2015! No vacancy in alausa come 2015! We love you daddy! Carry go!

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eggheaders: gathering of awon ara aro. ko baje fun igbese aiye re.

Aburo, see me as your NEMESIS henceforth! If you are confused, cursed from birth I, Tomakint will shape you up! Trust me, you can't go on like this in life, and you MUST not die in this present state (state of bitterness and extreme hatred for your fellow human beings) you put yourself

[quote author=Gen. Specific]I am partly from the SW and I know my people well-well.[/quote]I am fully SW, and I know them too much trust me! You are right on your assertion

lateef4me: Where are the ACN lap dogs like eko ile jare ?

as usual those ACN lapbaboons must always have something to say, no matter how stupid it would sound

[quote author=Gen. Specific]That can never happen. The only reason he is relevant in today's politics is due to the overwhelming xenophobia and stup1dity of the average Yoruba bigot who gave him their support.
Other sections are not that daft.[/quote]God bless you at the bolded, you have eyes to see well and may God continue to let it see more

Just picture a scenario where this man, Tinubu, is the one running things in Nigeria You na never halla, wetin you don see sef

[quote author=o'boy]jezoz krist,,sunny bobo you badt wella o,i laugh sote I nearly chock the food wey i dey chop 4 eyes
Help us continue 2 educate the boy[/quote]Walahi Sunny_bobo fit kill pesin No be small flogging for the 'poor orphan'

Jonathan is working haters are busy hating

Desola: .

Isokay!

When I start with this oloriburuku masanfani eranko, his brother bigoted moderators would start hiding my post. If you don't come and get your brother out of here now na sopona and olukoso go follow all of una plus including all the flat heads in your region chop this evening o, ehen.

Oam4j, shey you are watching?

Issorai!

MYCRTYIJN!!!

Desola: Eyi to wi yen, aro ti ro mo!

Expired product mi o raye ti e loni, je kin fi omo to bi yi (Airhead) sere lo ni Bobo were

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Esteemed Katz where have you been bro?