FCT forces plan to deny me the opportunity to enthrone my successor

FCT forces plan to deny me the opportunity to enthrone my successor

Posted by Sylvester on Friday, January 31, 2014 0

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The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has lamented that the insistence of Abuja leaders to enthrone a new governor without his input is the root cause of the crisis in his state.

Rotimi Amaechi

He regretted that the politicians are bent on denying him this privilege by insisting on enthroning politicians opposed to him as his successor.

He attributed the dwindling fortunes of the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Rivers state to the rising insecurity in the state.

The Rivers governor said insecurity came at a time when desperate politicians resorted to power-play at the national level, ahead of the 2015 elections and the recent influx of political thugs and miscreants, that were chased out of the state when he assumed office in 2007.

Amaechi spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt when officers and students of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Plateau State, visited him.

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) chairman noted that the prevalent insecurity in Rivers state prevented most companies from operating outside Port Harcourt, the state capital, which he said negatively affected the state’s IGR, that would have hit N10 billion monthly.

He said: “Things were improving before now, with the Army, Police and the State Security Service (SSS), which enabled us to arrest the insecurity in the state.

“It is also important for you to know the economic interest of the people, and our private interest too.

“Now, people are being kidnapped like in recent times. Some of my colleagues in government, like a lawyer I met this morning, he was kidnapped and kept for eight days, but he was just released on Friday. You are also aware of the Bishop that was kidnapped, but these issues were not there after I assumed office in 2007. But because of the elections (2015), the Abuja front has released all the people (militants) we chased out of Port Harcourt back into the state.”