Embattled Governor of Rivers state, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said his suspension from the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, was done in haste and outside the confines of the law.<\/p>\n
Amaechi who spoke Monday at an Interactive Session in Port-Harcourt said, hence the allegations cited were already in the law court it was illogical for the National Working Committee, NWC, of the PDP to sanction him to that extent.<\/p>\n
He described the action of the NWC as laughable.<\/p>\n
The Governor who said his problem with the party executives at the national level started when he dissolved the local councils in the state said, efforts were underway to re-consider the decision when an order came from Abuja to re-instate the chairmen.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, they called an emergency NWC meeting of the party by 7am when people are trying to bath and go out. Now if our party obeys rules. Law and order, (right?) the matter is in court. Can the house do anything? When the matter is in the court, can anybody do anything? The problem is, after we have a problem, do we want to obey the law?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether we are going to do that is in the powers of the state assembly. I know the powers of the assembly. I was a Speaker and I used it.\u00a0 If the House of assembly therefore decides to suspend the council chairmen, that is not governor Amaechi\u201d.<\/p>\n
On the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, elections which took place over the weekend, he said, he contested and won just as he advised the parallel Chairman of the NGF, Jonah Jang to concerntrate his energies on other things.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they all join hands to fight me and I still won, they should do what? Join me to thank God. Because what it means is that god has spoken and don\u2019t go against God\u2019s will. If you go against God\u2019s will, it will not go well. You it happened when I was in Ghana. For ten months, I fasted and I prayed\u2026..They should allow democracy to reign\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an engagement with the Inspector-General of Police on the state police issue and he said Governors will abuse the powers of the state police. Who is abusing police powers now? If you said you don\u2019t want to privatize the police, (because the police has been privatized) and allow the police to be for the benefit of the public. And imagine if you and I cannot go to court to seek protection, where else can we go to? If you go to court and they said they give you protection and someone said, \u2018to hell with the Court\u2019 where will you go to? Are we under military regime?\u201d, he stressed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Embattled Governor of Rivers state, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said his suspension from the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, was done in haste and outside the confines of the law. Amaechi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n