https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPDlK7s9zc
Amaechi's interview with DW Africa on Friday
Interviewer: We see that you were born in Rivers State and your State seems to be burning, hat's going on in Rivers State?
Amaechi: The fight between the current governor of Rivers State and the FCT minister is about sharing money. If not, what is the quarrel. Nigerians don’t dislike corruption again. I’ve not seen anybody on the street querying what the problem is. Can both of them speak to the public and tell us what the problem is about?”
And then we are now denied democracy, so Rivers State is the only State in the country that can't practice democracy. They have imposed a military rule on us.
Secondly is the fact that the President acted outside the Constitution. Section 188 states how a Governor can leave Office either by death, or by resignation or by impeachment. It didn't say one day one man called the President of Nigeria will just wake up and throw you out of Office. It makes democracy unstable. So that's what is going on in Rivers State.
It is between the President and the FCT minister. The President wants a power grab. They want to frighten Governors who may not support them in 2027. So, there is a rumour everywhere that if you are not careful, the president will remove you.
If the president said it is because of insecurity, because they blew the pipeline, what about part of the country where there is insecurity? Is the president saying they should impose emergency rule on him too? They can’t because he is a democratically elected president. Nobody can impose an emergency rule on him because there is serious insecurity in the north-east, north-west — even in south-east and south-west.
Rivers Governor has no security responsibility; it rests squarely on the president. So why punish a man who did not commit an offence?