by ‘Jola Sotubo
Governor Amaechi
The Rivers branch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, over the international conference on good governance and democracy which was organised by the state government.
The conference has been dismissed by the Director-General of the state PDP, Mr. Emma Woke, who called it a waste of resources.
Mr. Woke is said to have stated this yesterday adding that the conference was just being used as a cover by Amaechi to justify how the state’s funds had been spent since he became governor.
Woke said:
“Amaechi’s penchant in wasting the resources of the state to organise frivolous seminars and conferences is just to justify the trillions of naira he has received so far since he became governor by judicial circumstances in 2007.
“One will not stop to wonder the kind of good governance the likes of Amaechi is talking about; is it to cast aspersion on a party platform through which he became a governor in 2007 and 2011?
“Is Amaechi’s good governance to divert the state’s billions of naira to fund a party that was his opposition in the past seven and half years when he was in PDP?
“Amaechi should be man enough to tell his friends, the former British Prime Minister, Jack Straw; and the former Irish PM, John Bruton, that he is a fair weather politician who left his former party, PDP, because the internal democracy of the party forbade him from being dictatorial.”
Woke also said that the governor could not be taken seriously because he was not practicing what he preached.
