The Rivers State Regime has issued a verbalization saying the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has been apprehended and detained by security operatives in Odudu, Ondo state.
Governor Amaechi had arrived Ondo state en-route Ado-Ekiti where he was to join his fellow APC Governor, Kayode Fayemi for the last lap of his re-election campaign today in when he was relucted ingress into the state. He decided to turn back to Ondo state to go board the private jet that brought him but was however apprehended by security agents. Read the verbalization from Rivers Govt after the cut..
The Rivers State Regime is concerned about the safety of Governor Amaechi who is right now being held hostage commando style by soldiers and federal regime security agents in Odudu, Ondo state.
Governor Amaechi as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ forum and as an APC governor and chieftain had left Port Harcourt this morning for Ekiti state where he was to join his brother governor in his last mega rally afore the elections.
Governor Amaechi was ambuscaded and relucted ingression into Ekiti by military personnel acting on orders from above. He made to turn back and return to Akure where his chattered aircraft was parked but was chased and rounded by armed soldiers and security personnel in Odudu, Ondo state. According to the captain who led the operation, he had orders not to sanction the governor ingress or exit.
In the meantime, the chattered aircraft that conveyed he governor has been grounded while the minsters of Defence, police Affairs and Minister of state for Defence have landed at the Akure airport.
The Rivers State regime is especially worried that Federal regime and President Jonathan have singled out Governor Amaechi for harassment and assail.
While we hold the person and office of the President in utmost regards, we believe that it is unacceptable that the presidency would vilipend the person and office of an elected governor of a federating unit and consistently hound him.
The Rivers state regime is all more worried as Ondo saga is coming on the heels of a plot by six PDP lawmakers this morning to carry out a kangaroo impeachment of the duly elected governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, con first at Krisdara hotels and later Bauchi street, Port Harcourt.
Ordinarily such banality should be ignored as it is neither licit nor constitutional. However in the light of the recent endeavors to hoist a Chief Judge on Rivers people through the back door and the attendant rumours that the reason for that desperate act was to make it more facile for the PDP to actualize its sinister daydream of ousting Governor Amaechi afore May 29, 2015, we believe that it has become indispensable to draw the attention of Rivers people, Nigerians and the international community to the situation in Rivers State.
Only yesterday, in preparation for this tragicomedy, the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) inculpated Governor Amaechi of importing terrorists into the state and the region. They perpetuated their diatribe by injuctively authorizing that the governor of Rivers State be put under surveillance. The State Regime wouldn’t have dignified the PDP’s exhibit of incognizance with a replication but for the fact that these inculpations coupled with today’s actions are omniuos designations of how far the PDP is inclined to go in its quest to cling onto power by all designates.
The antecedents of impunity on the component of the leadership of the PDP are instructive and the party’s desperation to harm and stop anyone they perceive as major threat to their crumpling electoral fortunes next year is no longer news. The detention endeavor and incident at the Kano International Airport last week are still fresh in the minds of Nigerians. Also, the call to put Gov Amaechi under surveillance (or is it house apprehend?) on the same day that PDP commenced effort to unseat the Governor of Adamawa State, His Excellency, Murtala Nyako, is enough denotement of the script already indited by a jittery PDP
It is woeful that the insane minds of the authors of the PDP inculpation are jeopardizing police investigations of the 486 peregrinators who were intercepted in Aba, Abia State, and who are still being screened. One only wishes that the PDP would address the issues of the insecurity in the country with as much fervor and vigour as it deploys towards witch hunting its political opponents
The River Regime wishes to state that the world kens those who feather the nest of cultists and militants and for whom they are canon fodder. Governor Amaechi’s position on cultisim, violence and insecurity are pellucid as is his commitment to fighting penuriousness and amending the lives of our present and future generations.
The Rivers State Regime will not be deterred in its efforts to distribute good governance and ddemocratic dividends to our people.
We appeal to all Rivers people appeals to all members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and citizens in the state to remain calm in the face of these incitations.
We call on the Security Agencies to exhibit professionalism in their conduct of affairs. We appeal to all well meaning people in Nigeria and around the world to please call the PDP to authoritatively mandate afore they truncate our democracy.
It appears to us that the PDP pellucidly have no interest in the tranquility and stability either Rivers state.
We are mindful of these mischievous elements but perpetuate to call for tolerance and eternal vigilance. We are certain that the God who reigns in the affairs of Rivers people will again distribute us from this evil and terror that stalks us at noon day
Signed
Ibim Semenitari
Commissioner of Information and Communications
