Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, who
belongs to the All Progressives Congress, has
vowed that the opposition party would form a
parallel government, if the ruling party engages in
election rigging at the 2015 elections. Amaechi
also stated that President Goodluck Jonathan “is
supervising a highly corrupt government”, while
adding that “there is no democracy yet in
Nigeria.”
He stated that instead of going to court after the
2015 elections, the APC would simply form
another government. He said, “What is the
essence of going to court when the Federal
Government don’t obey the law.
That’s why the
APC say we won’t go to the court any longer. If
you rig us out, we would rig ourselves in; which
means if you think you can rig us out in 2015, we
will form our own government. We have met on
that and we have agreed on that. We will install
our own government and there would be two
governments.”
“The only way to avoid a parallel government is
to have a free and fair election. You can’t
continue to use the police as if it is a private
agency or company of the government. Are you
aware that the President of the South Africa is
being probed by the police? Can that happen
here? In this country, they slap judges. Seven
members of a state (Ekiti) House of Assembly
claimed they have sacked a Speaker,” Amaechi
added.
The governor, while speaking in Abuja on
Saturday, also commented on the face-off
between lawmakers and security officials at
the National Assembly complex last Thursday,
saying that the actions of the police shows that
the federal government has taken over the force.
Amaechi said, “We don’t have democracy in
Nigeria yet. What we have is diarchy. We don’t
have a democracy. Diarchy is dictatorship. The
Federal Government has appropriated the police
as its personal property. The FG has taken over
the police. See the way the police took over the
National Assembly. By law, the police have no
power to invade the National Assembly and they
have no power to stop the Speaker from going in
or out of the National Assembly complex. But
they don’t obey law.”
The governor, who has been in a protracted rift
with the Presidency for the past couple of years,
alleged that the government is deliberately
reluctant to end the menace of Boko Haram, in
order to ensure that elections wouldn’t hold in the
affected states, which he says are APC’s
stronghold.
He said, “The Federal Government deliberately
allowed the Boko Haram to overrun many villages
in the North-East. If it is not a political agenda,
why would the military not be able to chase away
the rag-tag army of Boko Haram?
They don’t
want elections to hold in the zone so that there
wouldn’t be election in the zone. If there is no
election in the North-East, they believe that the
APC would lose.”
“If they are not afraid of the APC, let them
restore law and order. The zone is in the hands of
the APC. Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and
Yobe states are all APC states. The only state
where it could be 50:50 is maybe Taraba State.
Apart from this, other states in the zone have
always voted for Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,
one of our presidential hopefuls,” Amaechi
concluded.
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