Jonathan To Amaechi: You’re A Political Rascal
— Oct 27, 2014 | 2 Comments
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday fired back at Rivers State governor, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi describing him as a political rascal and blackmailer who is always willing to denigrate the office of the president in a reckless attempt to promote his selfish political interest.
According to him, “The immunity which he currently enjoys notwithstanding, Governor Amaechi should be under no illusions: a day of reckoning will surely come when he will answer for all his actions and false allegations against him (Jonathan), his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan and the federal government.
Amaechi who had constantly criticised the Jonathan government had at a rally to celebrate the seventh anniversary of his Supreme Court victory at the Amesiemaka Stadium in Ikwerre local government area of the state on Sunday accused the president of sundry acts of miss governance, even as he accused the president’s wife of demanding money from him, which he refused to give to her.
Speaking through his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Jonathan reminded Amaechi that “there are legal, constitutional and moral limits to political rascality beyond which he will not be allowed to go without repercussions”.
The president told the governor point blank to stop blackmailing his wife, Patience Jonathan who, he said, has demanded nothing from him (Amaechi)’other than good governance, justice, equity, fairness, real development and progress in Rivers State.
In statement he issued yesterday, Abati asked Amaechi to “Stop trying to make President Jonathan the scapegoat for his woeful performance in Rivers State and look to his own very apparent failings and incompetencies”.
The statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday evening reads in part: “Governor Rotimi Amaechi took his obnoxious willingness to denigrate the highest office in the land in a reckless bid to advance his selfish political interests to a new level of irresponsible and rascally behaviour yesterday in Port Harcourt with his totally false and baseless vituperations against President Jonathan, the First Lady and the Federal Government.
“It appears from the Governor’s completely unfounded and off-the-mark allegations that he had totally lost all sense of propriety, decorum and responsible political behaviour and resorted to unacceptable demagoguery, libel, blackmail and incitement of public disorder.
“Unless his unbridled ambition and desire for self- promotion have completely befuddled his mental faculties and caused him to totally lose touch with reality, Governor Amaechi must know that his claims and allegations are untrue.
“We can only assume therefore that he is deliberately spewing malicious falsehood in a desperate effort to incite the people of Rivers State.
and Nigeria against his assumed political foes. He should also know that Nigerians are aware of the truth and will never be fooled or swayed by his arrant opportunism and anti-Jonathan rantings”.
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