{"id":21076,"date":"2013-12-21T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2013-12-21T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:37:06","slug":"gov-amaechi-in-apc-a-big-mistake-princewill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/interviews\/gov-amaechi-in-apc-a-big-mistake-princewill\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Amaechi In APC, A Big Mistake-Princewill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: What is your take on the Governor’s move to APC and are you moving with<\/strong><\/em>
\nhim?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: The short answer is No. Moving to APC is a mistake for him which has
\nbecome inevitable. So I call it the inevitable mistake. The Governor boxed
\nhimself into that position almost deliberately and so if it looks like
\nbeer, smells like beer and taste like beer, then let us all all
\nacknowledge that it is what it is. He chose the path he is walking. Talk
\nof him being forced to take it is for those who don’t know any better. Mr
\nPresident loved Amaechi but Amaechi put that love aside to perform his
\nfirst love which was Chairman of the Governor’s forum and his performance
\nof it undoubtedly brought them into conflict. He naively thought that it
\nwouldn’t. Many of us advised him against it but he said, “The President is
\nthe Commander in Chief, I am just a Chairman, there will be no conflict.”
\nNow we can see how wrong he was. The President may have made peace with
\nAmaechi but the President’s men and women wouldn’t especially considering
\nthe media approach he (Amaechi) employed. The insults were too much and it
\nonly made a bad situation worse. People who have tried to kill the
\nPresident have made peace with him so why not Amaechi. The answer comes
\nfrom the lack of a sufficient desire for peace.<\/p>\n

Very few people have the authority to talk on this matter like small me. I
\nunderstood the internal working of Amaechi’s mind on this issue, I am very
\nfamiliar with the President’s personal view on this matter, I have worked
\nwith the heads of the current APC family (Tinubu and Buhari) at close
\nquarters and I understand the pulse of both teams very well. So when I,
\nwho understands this in and out say Amaechi was wrong, I know what I am
\nsaying and when I who has been there before say, “don’t go”, I know also
\nwhat I am saying. Asking me to go there is like asking me to return to
\nsecondary school after leaving University many years later. A big mistake.
\nIt is the Governor’s supporters I feel sorry for. He has been Speaker for
\neight years and will be leaving as Governor after eight years, so he can’t
\ncomplain. But thanks to his decision, his “inevitable mistake”, many
\ncouncillors, LGA chairmen and other political office holders will have
\ntheir political prospects cut short. It is them I pity. They are the real
\nvictims. Alongside Rivers people. Amaechi will be fine.<\/p>\n

Q: People are wondering where you stand. Is it with PDP or PDM?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: They shouldn’t. I am in PDP. I have been there since 2010 and I am
\nstaying there. Many of them wonder because I speak for the people first
\nbefore the party. Unlike most politicians, for me my state comes first. I
\nwill not blindly follow a party that does not have the interest of my
\nstate at heart. So if my views are seen as anti-PDP, it is only in the
\nspirit of correcting the one you love whenever they deviate. After all
\nwhen Amaechi and I were working together I publicly criticised him. My
\nloyalty has always been to the people. If Amaechi or PDP do not walk the
\npath of my people, I will not hesitate to remind them. Having said that,
\nPDP is still the best of the rest. The only party with a national interest
\nand people who you can go to war with. I would rather go to war with Wike
\nthan with some of these two faced politicians. With him and his faults,
\nyou know where you stand with him. I can deal with that. Same applies to
\nJonathan. If he can’t do something, he will not say he can. He may be slow
\nto decide but when he does, that is it. He keeps his word. That has not
\nbeen my experience with many of them.<\/p>\n

If I take you through the new APC arrangement, the story is different.
\nSince political parties have refused to have a unique ideology of their
\nown, despite some of us coming close to insulting them on the subject, you
\nare better of pitching your tent with a team going somewhere and with your
\npeople’s interests at heart. I make bold to say that, for me in Rivers,
\nthat team is PDP. With respect to PDM, it is a party close to my heart and
\nmany good people uncomfortable with the aggressive style of politics
\nplayed in PDP have sought refuge there. They are organised, respecters of
\ninternal democracy and a roof for those, who can’t see the difference
\nbetween APC and PDP but want to get involved in party politics to make a
\ndifference. My dream is for PDP to make them allies. It will not be easy
\nbut it is possible. They have a bright future, if not now – in 2019.<\/p>\n

My committment to the youths has made me keep one eye on PDM and its
\nprogress. I believe the youth can use it to take control of their future.
\nTheir website pdm.ng is proof that they are the first political party in
\nNigeria to effect online registration. At the rate they are going with
\nmanual registration kicking off next week, they are set to become a
\nserious force in Nigerian politics. Their pedigree guarantees it. I tell
\npeople that my heart is with PDM but my head and my legs are firmly in
\nPDP. PDM will make change tomorrow, PDP can make change today. They should
\nwork together.<\/p>\n

Q: How is your relationship with Amaechi now?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: It is no longer what it used to be but that is also inevitable. I have
\nsupported him at my own expense and it was no longer wise to continue to
\ndo so. Each man to a box they say. Most of the negativity I get today was
\nbecause I decided to support Amaechi’s government in 2007. Some accuse me
\nof doing it for money, others accuse me of lacking the fighting spirit,
\nsome go as far as calling me a sell out. All that because I decided after
\nfighting a good fight that I should allow what I saw as a divine decision
\nto stand. I sold all I had to fight the 2007 election but after I
\nsupported Amaechi, I had to leave the state to survive because I was not a
\ngovernment pickin who survived off government leading up to 2007 so why
\nshould I be lazy and become one now? Amaechi knows this. I did some work
\nbut it was not at all commensurate with my input and even though I
\nfinished it after one year, it took them over two years later to pay me.
\nBut I never complained. Amaechi was a good man and I know he appreciated
\nme.<\/p>\n

Amaechi was like aradite anyway so empowering me was not his first, second
\nor third interest. I noticed this and went about my business. Many say I
\nwas involved in Silverbird, the 1000 bed hospital, waste management and
\nmany other things but the truth is not what it seems and one day it will
\nall come out. In 2011, I engineered over 1\/2 a billion Naira of
\ncontribution to Amaechi’s campaign. Majority of the contributors came with
\nmoney from outside Rivers state. Did Tonye Princewill see one contract
\nworth that much? No. Yet I still stood by him. Because I was there for the
\nstate’s interest, not my pocket. That support I gave Amaechi cost me
\npolitically but I didn’t look back. I gave it. In the end God will judge
\nus.<\/p>\n

My people supported him tooth and nail but yet they were not acknowledged.
\nI asked and asked, they were promised and promised but even after he told
\nthem in public and on National TV that he likes to keep his word as an
\nexample to his children, he didn’t. Still I supported him. He removed our
\ncommissioners in his cabinet, still I supported him, he promised other
\nappointments and failed, still I supported him, because I was not there
\nfor me. If I was interested in me, I would have done things differently,
\nhad a deal with Omehia and collected 1.5 billion from him. All this I did
\nbecause I believed Amaechi came from God. I never knew him before October
\n2007, yet I was more useful to him than people who grew up with him in
\npolitics. Many of my supporters felt that my refusal to fall out with him
\nsignified I was eating fat and content. This was not the case.<\/p>\n

I saw my support as a stabilising force. The Riverine were agitating for a
\nGovernor after eight years of an Odili upland regime. People like me
\ndeciding to stand by Amaechi gave him credibility and soothed the Riverine
\n\/ Upland divide that has dogged our state for so long. One day I sincerely
\nhope that Amaechi looks at my role and realises that he lost a friend
\ngiven to him by God. It might be too late for us, but let him not do this
\nto others. Eventually it catches up with us. The same man he called
\ncorrupt aka Mr Consumables and not wanting to do politics with is now the
\ninterim Chairman of APC in my state, the same man he called an irritant
\nand refused his calls is now his spokesman and the list goes on. He
\ndeliberately poached members of my team without the courtesy of my consent
\nand did it only when he needed them. But I am not bitter. They are good
\nmen and deserve recognition. I am glad for the role I played in their
\nlives. Good luck to them. I only wish he had recognised them sooner.<\/p>\n

Q: Can you still be Governor in 2015 now?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: Why not? I am free of all encumberances. I have stood in Amaechi’s
\nshadow for too long and now I am once again my own man, free to talk for
\nme and free to speak for my people without worrying about relationships
\nand allegiances. Even though I was still quite blunt, I was a lot more
\nmeasured than I would like and a lot less critical than would have pleased
\nme. Now I can talk about what is still wrong, what is not right and what
\nneeds doing without suspicions about me wanting to be Governor. Many
\npeople say I won in 2007, 2015 will be an opportunity to find out how
\npopular I really am. I have never held a political office before, yet I
\nhave touched more people than some Governors and I have not campaigned for
\na day since 2007. That is the grace of God and I pray for it every day.<\/p>\n

Rivers state will experience what it has never seen before. That I promise
\nyou. It will take an Obama to stop what we are coming with and I can’t see
\na Kenyan coming to win Rivers state, can you? No. Unless the One from
\nabove says “Don’t.” I will do. And I will not look back for anyone. 2015
\nis all the way or nothing. The past is the past. We all make mistakes.
\nThat is why pencils have erasers. All I can ask is for people to have a
\nforgiving spirit. As for Amaechi’s support, I told him on the 6th of
\nJanuary 2012 about 2015 and I saw it in his eyes that he wouldn’t support
\nme but I still supported him. Now all this happens, through no fault of
\nmine. Can you see? God decides not man. It is amazing that the same
\nbeneficiaries of this philosophy still want to play God. I guess it is
\nonly human nature to think a Governor will install a Governor. I heard
\nAmaechi said Tonye Princewill will never be Governor. I hope it is not
\ntrue. But I will ask him. I have never abused him or insulted him. In fact
\nI have even prayed for him. But I will not fight our President and I will
\nnot go for Senate in 2015. This I will not do. We have agreed to disagree.
\nI hope agreeably.<\/p>\n

Q: What is your view on Atiku and Jonathan. Who will you support for<\/strong><\/em>
\nPresident?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: I will support the President for a continued four year term in office.
\nLet me make that absolutely clear. As much as Atiku in my mind is a
\nbrilliant politician and a great Presidential material, I am afraid that
\nhis route to the Presidency is unclear to even a nuclear strategist like
\nmyself. He can’t get the PDP ticket and the APC ticket is not aimed in his
\ndirection either (thanks to the G7). He can’t keep jumping just to get a
\nticket, so I believe he should stay in PDP. Who knows, if he stays there
\nanything can happen tomorrow. 2019 is there and his chances are still
\nquite good. Jonathan can acknowledge his support, Nigerians can or maybe
\njust maybe he wasn’t destined to be President. I don’t know. What I do
\nknow is I am not going to APC, Atiku should not allow himself to be used
\nby those G7 Governors. I have no reason to do what would amount to
\nimpeaching the President by denying him a second term. What is his crime?
\nGranted he has not done fantastic in many areas but I am not fooled by
\nthe finger pointing especially because of the grubby fingers that are
\ndoing that pointing.<\/p>\n

They are no better, they have a selfish agenda and do not mean well for my
\ncountry either. I’d rather have four more years of this certainty than
\neight more years of their own version of it.
\nPolitics should be about compromise. Honour amongst thieves. Help Jonathan
\nto go again for the sake of the country and help him rule. He needs all
\nthe help he can get because many good people are fooled into abandoning
\nhim so the bad people around him are gaining relevance. The President is a
\ngood man. I’ve seen many acknowledge this. They complain about the people
\naround him. So why not come around him too? If you are kept at a distance,
\nmaybe it is because of your actions and your body language. Open it up to
\ndialogue and compromise. Do what Mandela would have done. Talk to your
\noppressors, dine with your enemies and seek a way forward knowing that the
\ninterest of the nation come first. The voice of the people is the voice of
\nGod. Jonathan didn’t get there by his might, so maybe God has a reason.
\nLet us think about it. Everything I have said here, I have told Atiku in
\nprivate. Without divulging his response, let me say that he acknowledged
\nthat Jonathan is the only President that has not attempted to destroy his
\nbusiness. All other succesive Presidents have. Does that not tell you
\nsomething. Nigerians have heard the phrase, “It’s the thought that counts
\nbut let them remove “the” and use “It’s thought that counts.” We need to
\nstart thinking.<\/p>\n

I rest my case. That is the kind of man you are dealing with. A GEJ\/Atiku
\nalliance would so gladden my heart. It would be a dream come true for my
\nnation. If Mandela and de Klerk could work together, why not them? The
\nanswer is leadershp and these elders God gave us. Ego and ambition can not
\ncome before us the people. My comfort is that God knows best. Only one
\nperson can occupy that seat at any one time. For now it is Jonathan. I
\nadvised Amaechi not to support him in 2011, Amaechi ignored my advice. Now
\nhe wants me to help him clean up the mess? I won’t do it. You lie in the
\nbed you made. Jonathan may not support me for Governor but I will support
\nhim for President especially seeing the forces that have mounted against
\nhim because it is right. I try not to put my interest first. It helps me
\nsleep better at night.<\/p>\n

Q: With PDP in such dissaray, how can they win the Presidency in 2015?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: Because what you see as a disarray is really just a cleansing. Those
\nthat leave were never meant to be there. Granted PDP has a structural
\nproblem highlighted by this recent drama but now PDP is free to address it
\nwithout distractions. PDP is a formiddable machine. I know. I have come up
\nagainst it before and so I pity those who start to read its obituary. They
\nunderestimate it and underestimate Jonathan. I did that in 2011, but I
\nwill not be repeating that mistake. Listen. PDP Governors controlled the
\nparty until Jonathan came along. Obasanjo and Yar Adua had tried to
\nrebalance the control but they failed.<\/p>\n

We have a string of memorials for PDP Chairmen who fell at the hands of
\nthe Governors but GEJ changed all that. How? You can trace it to the
\nGovernors forum election. A masterpiece in political slight of hand. Now
\nyou see it. Now you don’t. While all of us were complaining that 19 is
\nmore than 16 and quite rightly so, the forum died and Governors were
\nsuspended by the same party they controlled. People should go and study
\nwhat is happening in Nigerian politics today and they will see that acting
\nfoolish is the new wisdom because Nigeria is full of wise people. Busy
\nanalysing the problem so much that a silent listener who actually focuses
\ninstead on solutions can makes progress where other so called smarter ones
\nhave failed.<\/p>\n

In the end the majority know that APC is no better than PDP and if they
\nsense that PDP and Jonathan are ready to listen, they will give them
\nanother chance. If President Jonathan wants to come back in 2015, he has a
\nlot of work to do. But he can do it. Some of us will help him do it. There
\nare many young Nigerians that see the 419 in our politics. How can APC
\nabsorb the same PDP governors they were abusing last month and hand over
\nthe party in their states to them as if people were not there before. And
\nthey say they are different? Is that democracy? Is Nyako change? The
\noriginal APC members in Rivers state are about to defect en masse to PDP
\nand PDM in sheer disbelief. Tell me who is in disarray.<\/p>\n

A: Is the level of corruption in Nigeria today not an indictment on Jonathan?<\/p>\n

Q: It is an indictment on all of us especially him. Yes. But Nigerians<\/strong><\/em>
\nneed to move beyond complaining to actually doing. We complained about<\/strong><\/em>
\nObasanjo assigning National assets to himself and what happened?<\/strong><\/em>
\nJonathan’s hasn’t done that. Did corruption end? Did it go underground? So<\/strong><\/em>
\nwhy do we keep doing the same thing and expect different results?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Complaining about GEJ is not the solution. He has done a couple of things
\nthat suggest he can do more. The PDP Chairman’s son has been remanded in
\ncustody. Haba! That was never possible in Obasanjo’s PDP. But it has
\nhappened. Tambuwal complained the other day that Jonathan’s body language
\nencourages corruption, Amaechi complained that trillions are missing and
\nDino Melaye set up an anti corruption NGO. Who are we kidding? Can we
\nplease stop the drama. The political class are all knee deep in corruption
\nso forgive me if I don’t fall for that particular game. They want Jonathan
\nout and somebody else in. So they can control the key to the CBN vault.
\nSorry. Now we know. If good people surround Jonathan, bad people involved
\nin corruption will be expendable. Now you ask him to chuck out the few who
\nstood by him and he feels exposed. Let us understand them even if we don’t
\nagree. Obama said of Mandela that he “sought to understand where his
\nopponents were coming from.” We should learn from Mandela.<\/p>\n

Nigerians should be wise. The truth is bitter. There are no saints in the
\npolitical space anymore. Just serial sinners. Let us find the ones who
\naccept they need help and see if we can save them. Jonathan needs help. He
\nhas only four more years. He is a much better option than a full eight
\nyears of these other ones. The damage political drama does our nation is
\nbeyond belief. In the end, they all settle and resume casual affairs,
\nwhile the people remain casualties. Never again. I don’t see 2015 as
\nchange, I see it as a preparation for change. I see that change in 2019.<\/p>\n

Q: Where do you see the state of the nation come 2015?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: I see it stabilising. The critical year for me like I said is 2019.
\nWhen Jonathan is on his way out. If the North do not support him now, they
\nwill loose the President’s support in 2019 and that may tilt things in
\nfavour of the South East politics. That would isolate the North and drive
\ntheir political prospects deeper underground. Knowing the history of our
\ncountry, that will open up many ugly possibilities. Containing that
\nsituation in 2019 is my concern. Not 2015. If the President does what he
\nneeds to do, 2015 will pass peacefully and there is nothing to suggest he
\nwon’t.<\/p>\n

Q: Mandela pulled South Africa from the brink, what can be done for Nigeria?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A: Nigeria can move forward in leaps and bounds if they are given the
\nright leadership. Mandela was a fighter and a defender of democracy but he
\nwas willing to speak with even his oppressors to move his country forward.
\nThis is what is lacking here in Nigeria. Selflessness. If we can get a few
\nof them to hold on to this philosophy, the future will be bright.
\nPoliticians have to learn to keep their words and be open about their
\ndeals behind close doors so we can see who keeps their side of the bargain
\nand who does not. Mandela and the ANC negotiated in open with de Klerk and
\nhis team. The interest of the country need not be a secret. We don’t all
\nhave to be the President or have one from our region to progress. Let
\nGod’s will survive. This brings me to the issue of a national conference.
\nWe need one and we need it now. Dialogue is the key to all our challenges
\nand we have many of them. Those afraid of dialogue need not be unless they
\nare happy with the status quo. The status quo cannot continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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