Amaechi Has A Behavioural Problem – APGA Founder

“Is it possible that the president has deployed all of them, the most credible of all of them is Dr Peter Odili, who is leading the pack now. He is now matching on the streets against Amaechi, Amaechi was his boy. But there was no doubt that there was no love lost between them before now. All of the people who worked and, matched and fought side by side with Amaechi for him to emerge as Governor are all disillusioned. And this is a problem of leadership. But I must say from a distance that he has a personal attitude that smacks of arrogance and aloofness. I see in him self opinionated person who will hardly consider other peoples opinion as important. He is not sensitive to public views and this is a mark of a good leader.

To blame the president of complicity in the crisis, to me is uncharitable and cannot be strongly substantiated. There’s no doubt that the President’s wife is from Rivers State. As a human being no matter how hard she tries her interest in her home state will always show. There is no doubt that having come from Rivers State she is expected to take a certain stand even being the First Lady of Nigeria. So that suspicion that she has interest, she has taken a stand has also fueled the allegation that this is the presidency- instigated battle. Who will deny Nyesom Wike, the Minister of State for Education his right as a Nigeria citizen and a Rivers person, to aspire to be Governor? This is what has happened in many states of Nigeria, and continues to happen. Once an incumbent sees an aspirant that is not in his line-up and who seems to have prospect, there is all manners of battle, that sometimes lead to political killing. It’s also a common occurrence in Nigeria that once people get into power, the first person they attack is the person who helped them to ascend to power. I have heard it said by former President Obasanjo that once a king is made, the first thing he does is to target and kill the king makers, maybe in suspicion that they may make another king, so this are so common in Nigeria, look at the experience of Dr Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State. whatever may be his fault, he is a human being but the viciousness with which Chief Theodore Orji fought him is not anything anybody will wish for himself.

In Enugu State it’s almost a tradition that once you get into power you must turn around and attack your benefactors. Chief Nwobodo was a victim, what goes around come around, you can go on and on. The only person who we can say has managed his own with sufficient dexterity and political sagacity is the Governor of Lagos State, he almost came to a head in the last election as everybody watched with keen interest and berthed breath, how this performing governor was going to engage in a fight with his benefactor. How he managed to maintain cordiality till now is a case study that needs to be emulated. So this is what I see going on, in Nigeria, may be because of the opposition we are playing, which I said has moved from opposition to viciousness.

Now some people are making it look like the person who is responsible for the political problem in Rivers State is the President and his wife. No blame is going to Rotimi at all. Prof Wole Soyinka will shout from Lagos, Femi Falana will fire from there. Tam David West, who is from Rivers, but hardly in Rivers will do his own. Everybody who is vocal, but is outside the theater of the struggle blames the President, but those who are inside and who are prominent Rivers people and who have more stake than these people who are talking have said that this our son is not behaving properly. So, to blame them won’t solve anything definitely. Again, I think leadership is needed by all here and the President can do more to return normalcy to Rivers State than keeping aloof because I guess that what he’s doing now is to avoid being blamed for any action he may take, no matter how altruistic. But that wouldn’t solve the problem. He must do something to resolve the problem. He is the father of all Nigerians for now.

“I don’t believe that he is working as such and that the people want him to share the money. He is not the only one that is working. He is not the foremost performer in terms of service delivery. What of the Fashola I just mentioned? And look at how complicated Lagos is, if anyone is accusing him of sharing or not sharing money, why is he having peace? Is he sharing money or not sharing? You can go on. In Enugu State where I live, I come from Abia, but I have lived almost all my adult life in Enugu State, I have never seen any development in Enugu State since the war ended, as I have seen under Sulivan Chime. Look at the people he has managed, in spite of the fact that he is an introvert by nature. I knew him from his University days. But in spite of being an introvert, he has still managed to wield all the contenting forces in Enugu North Senatorial zone, Nsukka area. Everybody who had one suspicion or the other came together. Those who were being suspected of nursing gubernatorial ambition that can upset the chart like Chief Ekweremadu and those in opposition like Dubem Onyia etc, have all come together to align with the governor. And the summit he had in Enugu was the most successful that point to stability of government in that place. And to me, he has performed in Enugu State more than Rivers.

I visited Rivers State recently and some of the things I saw on television are not so on ground. The roads are horrible. The traffic jam in Rivers can make someone crazy and this thing can be done with the kind of resources at his disposal. But now he says – this is federal road and this is state road. How many states have done federal roads for the comfort of their people and gone back to ask for a refund? Or do I talk about Akwa Ibom State that is a master piece and a show case? It’s now a destination point in Nigeria. Has he not managed his relationship even with former governor, Attah, where initially it seemed that the centre would not hold? But now there is no major event within Attah’s family that the governor is not there and there is nothing happening in the state that is major, that Attah does not participate in, thereby telling all those who often benefit from crises that there is no point to have a fight, for a fight is not for the benefit of Akwa Ibom State.

So, I have acknowledged what Rotimi Amaechi has done well. There is no way I will deny him the things he has done well. But there is no way I will also blame other people and assume that the reason they are fighting him is because he is not giving them money. People used to give that kind of excuse. When we go down to the details, you will see that even the person who is giving more money or largest is more accountable, because these people who claim they are not giving money, by the time you go into what they have amassed, for themselves you will shudder. So I don’t want to go into the issue of who give people money or what. I am talking about what I can see from a very dispassionate point of view.

“Amaechi has a behavioural problem. Sagacity that is required of a leader. He will soon leave there and join the family of the ex’s. I know of some state governors who can hardly visit their State of Origin, because of the way they ran the state as soon as they are practically on their own self-exile. I hope it doesn’t end up that way for him”.###

Source: NationalNetwork