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The Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said that contrary to President Goodluck Jonathan’s claim, the President is not interested in a free and fair election.

Amaechi, who was reacting to soldiers’ occupation of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium ahead of the Jonathan’s political campaign in the state on Wednesday, said the action of the President was an indication that he (Jonathan) was opposed to democratic norms.

The governor, who spoke in Government House in Port Harcourt on Sunday, explained that it was wrong for President Jonathan to order soldiers to take over the state-owned stadium, even when approval was not given by the state government.

He argued that a President should have respected the position of the state government in an ideal federation, particularly after telling the Peoples Democratic Party to use the Liberation Stadium.

Amaechi said, “Why is the President insisting on using the Adokiye Amiesamaka Stadium after we have told the PDP that work is currently going on there? It is unfortunate that the President is preaching one thing and doing another thing.

“If the President is truly interested in the conduct of a free and fair election, why did he order armed soldiers to forcefully take over a state government-owned facility when it was not given to him or the PDP?

“Why should a President elected in a democratic election, serving under a democratic dispensation order soldiers to take over a state-owned stadium? In an ideal federation, the President is supposed to respect our position, essentially after we asked them to use the Liberation Stadium at Elekahia, in Port Harcourt City.”

In a related development, the state PDP Chairman, Mr. Felix Obuah, confirmed the party’s readiness to use the Adokiye Amiesamaka Stadium on Wednesday.

Obuah said in a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Media, Mr. Jerry Needam, that the reason given by Amaechi on why he refused the party’s request to use the stadium was unacceptable.

The state PDP chairman argued that the stadium was built with state funds, maintaining that the facility was only conceptualised when Amaechi was a member of the PDP.

He, however, challenged the governor to name any capital project that he implemented since he defected to the APC in November 2013.

Obuah told and ers of the PDP to turn out in their large number to welcome the presidential campaign train in continuation of President Jonathan’s bid to earn a second term.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-not-interested-in-free-polls-amaechi/

U get office?

This man should stop having double standard

Well, learn to respect higher authority first! Now teach dat to your sons never to be like u!

Office ko office ni

I realllllllllllllllly like this Gov Amaechi, Niqqah send no one ohh

Election o, GEJ o, GMB o e no concern me
If GEJ like make he arrange meetings dey read the questions and answer on Laptop, that is what Fela called Arrangement

All i care about is a debate like this: So i catch all my fun completely

Which of the office abeg

nairalife2013:
Well, learn to respect higher authority first! Now teach dat to u sons never to be like u!

which office?

You treated d office of d president with disdain, so u deserve whatever it is, coming ur way. Is politics a do or die affair? You myt sit down one day to dine wit gej after al, your enemy today myt become your friend tomorrow.

Amaechi the moronn just like the illiterate terrorist general Buhari, he doesn't know the law of respect which is reciprocal.


Buhari is a terrorist
Apc Is bokoharam



Gej till 2019

You disrespected your own office by refusing to allow them use the stadium as a civilised man should. So they took it by force. This shows that power power.

I hope your lodge in Abuja is still in a good condition after all the meetings held there because come May 29th, Rivers state will be too hot for you o.

DeviIhimself:
Amaechi the moronn just like the illiterate terrorist general Buhari, he doesn't know the law of respect which is reciprocal.


Buhari is a terrorist
Apc Is bokoharam



Gej till 2019

By now your case must be of grave concern to your family . Wasted sperm

Amaechi is in a state of 36 days madness don't blame him. Madness In High Places

Its is only my nation that we don't have respect for our president.

Cry me a river Ohhhh Cry me a river yeahhhh

A state of 38 days madness don't blame him Y'll. We've got a place for him after may 29

Amaechi should have stood his ground, oh well, they say "He that runeth, will liveth".

Jonathan shall pay for all his atrocities against the nigerian people.

Did you respect the office of the president when your permission was sought for??
amechi respect is reciprocal!!!

Since time immemorial, apc e-rats on this forum have been calling our president "weak"; labeling him with all sorts of derogatory names like _Retardeen, _slowpoke, _Clueless & all what not.


Now he has flexed his "Presidential biceps", y'all are comparing him to Idi Amin.


Bunch of confused people


[size=28pt] GEJ till 2019 [/size] jare!

Hahahahahahahah! See who's talking of respect of office. The tin pain am sha!

I thought he acts as though he is stronger than Gej, why the lamentation? I had wanted to read "Amaechi slaps Gej for using his stadium" mtcheew confused fellow

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Amaechi is just spraying everyone around him with saliva and tears.

Office ko toilet ni.

You've been given the humble pie; I thought you said the stadium would be used over your dead body. Kill yourself, cos that stadium must be used.

Maybe ameachi forgot that respect is reciprocal...You don't ridicule the office of presidency and go scot free..

He was made to eat the humble pie, now he is crying blue murder...Yeye dey smell

nairalife2013:
Well, learn to respect higher authority first! Now teach dat to u sons never to be like u!

he refused sharing rivers state funds with patience jonathan,and refused f.ucking the fat bitch,is dat disrespecting higher office?no wonder gej got stoned!foolishness will be voted out.

Amaechi i still luv u, but just allow them use it, it will not take anything from u.

Even though I'm not a fan of gej and his istration but for amaechi to have tried to deny him is the height of insolence.
A Yoruba proverb says " Ai fini pe ni, ai feyan pe yan, lo mu ara oko ara e san bante wolu. "