The State PDP Chairman, Mr. Felix Obuah, who issued this warning on Saturday while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt, said the PDP would no longer condone the disrespect to President Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan.
Obuah said the governor had in different public fora within and outside the country made uncomplimentary and inciting remarks about the person and office of the President and his wife.
He specifically said Amaechi, who recently appeared before the Human Rights Commission in Abuja, accused the wife of the President of influencing the transfer of a former commissioner of police in the state to pave the way for the current police commissioner in the state, Mr. Joseph Mbu.
He said, “We will no longer condone this irresponsible, irrational and malicious disrespect for our dear President and his wife by Amaechi.
“It is regrettable that rather than admit that he (Amaechi) is confused and has lost focus, Governor Amaechi deluded himself into believing that the only thing he can do to gain back the confidence and trust of the disappointed Rivers people is to accuse President Jonathan for being responsible for his non-performance.
“The party has noted that what Governor Amaechi has failed to tell the people is whether it is also President Jonathan and his wife that are in custody of the trillions of naira that continue to accrue to the state from both the federal allocation and internally generated revenues that made him (Amaechi) not to deliver to the people the dividends of democracy.”
Obuah added that insulting and casting all manners of aspersions on President Jonathan and his family or anyone else would only complicate the ‘governor’s problem.’
Reacting, the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Mr. Tony Okocha, said the governor had only made statements of facts that were verifiable.
Okocha told SUNDAY PUNCH that there was nothing wrong for the governor to tell the people of the state the ‘unpalatable incidents’ happening around him and in the state.
Maintaining that Amaechi did not insult President Jonathan and his wife, he added the governor had the mandate to serve the people of the state by speaking his (Amaechi) mind on issues that affected the state.
“There is nothing wrong in the governor telling his people about what is going on around him and the state, especially unpalatable incidents in the state. He (Amaechi) is not insulting the President. What he said are statements of fact that are verifiable,” Okocha said.
On whether Amaechi had managed the huge sum of money accruing to the state judiciously, Okocha said government was leaving it for the people of the state to judge.
“You know that your enemies will never see anything good in what you are doing no matter how hard you work,” he added.
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