‘Amaechi Governors Forum’ Comment: You Are Delinquent,
Pigheaded – Rivers Government Carpets Gulak
David Iyofor, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Rotimi Amaechi, in a statement Monday night, said the aide has again painted the President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency as partisan, with no regard or respect for the peoples’ mandate.
Gulak had told PUNCH yesterday that the Presidency does not recognize Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as the duly elected Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).
He added that the Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, who on May 24 2013, lost the NGF elections to Governor Amaechi was the Chairman recognized by the presidency.
The statement said it is a known fact that Amaechi got the mandate of the majority of his colleague governors to continue to serve as their chairman when 19 governors voted for him as against 16 that voted for Governor Jonah Jang.
It wondered why the Jonathan presidency, according to Gulak, would state that 16 is greater than 19.
Expressing sadness on the development, Iyofor noted that some aides in the Presidency were ignorant and totally bereft of substance, affirming that they lack the capacity to comprehend the negative views such comments attract to the person and office of the President.
“By his comments, repugnant Gulak just told Nigerians and the world, that the Presidency (of course with President Jonathan) do not respect, have no regard and do not recognize the result of a free and fair voting process that produced a clear winner in the person of Governor Amaechi.
“It continues to baffle us, like most Nigerians that small, petty minds like Gulak in the Presidency will continue to make undemocratic comments that do enormous and sometimes irreversible damage to the President and the Presidency in their thoughtless, madcap self-imposed mission of persistently pouring intemperate, obnoxious and opprobrious invectives on Governor Amaechi.
“But this is not about Governor Amaechi. It is about respecting and recognizing a democratic, electoral process that produced a winner. And it does not matter whether they like the winner’s face or courage or ability to speak his mind. It does not matter whether the person disagrees with Mr. President on certain national issues; they are duty-bound to respect and recognize that democratic process that produced a winner.
Iyofor noted that it is “certainly rude, uncharitable, ill-mannered and nonsensical for Gulak, an appointed aide to condescendingly, derisively and superciliously refer to elected governors as ‘Amaechi Governors Forum’.”
“His likes in the Presidency must be told in unambiguous terms that the Governors Forum is the internal business of the governors and who becomes their chairman can only be determined by the governors and the governors alone; and certainly not the Presidency. And for now, the majority of governors have democratically elected Governor Amaechi to serve as their chairman. Governor Amaechi remains the only authentic chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Casting nasty aspersions on governors elected by their people will never change that fact.
“Finally, we want to assume that bigmouthed Gulak who talks first then thinks later was only speaking his wrenched and warped mind; and speaking for himself and not for our dear President, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan or the Jonathan Presidency. We want to assume that his comment to PUNCH which is an obnoxious and futile attempt to distort the fact was not authorized by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Rivers Government advised the President to disassociate itself from the unbefitting, perverse, delinquent and pig-headed comment of Gulak on who the authentic chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum is.
Culled from Dailypost
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