{"id":49133,"date":"2016-05-10T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49133"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:23:11","slug":"amaechi-infamous-letter-jonathan-hearing-sanusi-not-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/amaechi-infamous-letter-jonathan-hearing-sanusi-not-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi And The Infamous Letter To Jonathan: Hearing What Sanusi Did Not Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Ifeanyi Izeze<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Mischief, a major preoccupation of the human mind, keeps getting perfected in this country everyday by those who take politics as their only job including those already ruling, those desperate to rule, and those whose hope of ruling seems to be fast blazing out. Both Lamido Sanusi Lamido and Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi share certain attributes in common and this makes them unique in a funny way. First, they are both former governors, though they ruled over two different kinds of constituencies. Secondly, both men perform better in controversies- their ingenuity and visibility are enhanced in controversial situations if not how do you explain that the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) could for whatever reasons come out at this time to say that \u201cMy letter to Jonathan on \u2018missing $20bn\u2019 was leaked by Amaechi knowing the implications of such statement?<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
The question we should ask is: what is the real meaning of all these? If the immediate past governor of Rivers State and now Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi\u00a0Amaechi surreptitiously\u00a0and clandestinely \u2018leaked\u2019\u00a0a letter written by\u00a0former Central Bank of Nigeria\u00a0(CBN) governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad 11 to then President Goodluck Jonathan\u00a0on the non-remittance of $49.8 billion from oil sale to the federation account, why is this coming out now and how is this more important than all the pressing issues even those in Kano that the present government has been grappling to solve including the fractures in the ruling political structures? What means is this accusation going to serve us now as a nation?<\/span><\/div>\n
There was never a time Sanusi ever pretended to be Amaechi\u2019s very good pal. Though at a point in their individual quest to grab political power, it was convenient for both men to get along on nothing more than \u201cthe enemy of my enemy has to be my friend\u201d pedestal.<\/span> <\/span>Anyone who has followed these two people for a long time would have established that once in a while, there is something that manifests between them that could rightly be described as \u2018fetish disdain.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
If Sanusi strongly believed his \u2018patriotic\u2019 letter to Jonathan was for the best interest of the country, what makes him conclude Amaechi released it to the public out of mischief rather than also for the same best interest of Nigeria? You see the deceit?<\/span><\/div>\n
Sanusi did the letter because as said, he could no longer keep quiet and watch Nigeria being robbed to its bones. Also Amaechi did what he did because he believed that the theft and corruption was just too much. He was propelled just as Sanusi by his patriotic zeal to put Nigeria first, do what is in the best interest of the nation and Nigerians,\u00a0and stop the bleeding\u00a0and sucking\u00a0of our collective resources by a tiny few.\u00a0So with percieved similar zeal and good- intent, how could one person\u2019s action be hailed as patriotic while the other person\u2019s branded as mischievous and treacherous?<\/span><\/div>\n
The response\u00a0 <\/span>to Sanusi\u2019s accusation from Amaechi\u2019s media office though tried to explain how the \u2018patriotic letter\u2019 to the president got to the former Rivers state governor and ultimately released to the public, actually displayed gross oblivion of the \u201cspirit and intent\u201d of the former CBN governor\u2019s\u00a0 <\/span>accusation coming just at this time.<\/span><\/div>\n
As said by the statement from Amaechi\u2019s media aide, \u201cConsidering that the letter was given to Amaechi as Chairman of the Governors\u2019 Forum, he shared the letter with his colleague governors first, and\u00a0with Senator Bukola\u00a0Saraki(now\u00a0Senate President), who\u00a0before and\u00a0around that period was\u00a0doing some work or\/and investigation around the oil sector in the Senate.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Now, almost all the people that participated in the clandestine release of the infamous letter are today on the opposite sides of politics with Amaechi even those in the same party with him. So can we rule out a hidden agenda in this obvious smear campaign!<\/span><\/div>\n
Let\u2019s even look at it, according to Sanusi, \u201cI said to them, gentlemen, I\u2019m coming to you because I just had a meeting with the president, and there were no witnesses, and the president had threatened me.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
This was a private meeting with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and was meant to be confidential or even top secret and yet on leaving the meeting, the first thing that the former CBN governor did was to disclose the discussion at the meeting to the first person he met. You don\u2019t disclose private conversation with the president just like that. It makes you unreliable, treacherous and even a security risk. And this is what this Sanusi\u2019s disclosure coming at this time against one of the president\u2019s favoured ministers sets to achieve- to publicly paint Amaechi as treacherous, untrustworthy and above all, a security risk! This assertion may be wrong but only time would tell.<\/span><\/div>\n
To say that the former CBN governor has continued to hold Amaechi in disdain is an understatement. Tragically though, Amaechi himself has not been very wise in choosing his political allies. How could Chibuike pretend to forget so easily? It was this same Sanusi as CBN governor and special guest to Amaechi\u2019s Rivers State government at a gala night that was chaired by Governor Amaechi as part of discussion sessions lined up for a 3-day Rivers State investors\u2019 forum which held at the Government House in Port Harcourt in November 2011 that tried to rubbish whatever Amaechi called the entire investing world to see, celebrate and key -into in Rivers state.<\/span><\/div>\n
This was what Sanusi after eating Amaechi\u2019s dinner said at that event: \u201cWe have to recognize that it is not easy to think of Nigerian states today as having one difficulty. While one state seems to have a problem with too much money, other states have problems with too little money. So before we go out praising governor Amaechi for all what he had done, you need to know how much money Rivers State has been getting compared to other parts of the country. And Governor Amaechi, I have the facts here. And I hope the people of Rivers are going to watch you (looking at Amaechi) for the next four years. I am going to tell them how much money they have gotten so that they can ask questions. I did some analysis of the money that was gotten and was distributed. This does not add the excess oil governor Amaechi is getting from Akwa Ibom.\u201d This was another \u2018patriotic\u2019 stance abi?<\/i> Abeg make all of una go sit down!<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
(IFEANYI IZEZE lives in Abuja and can be reached on: <\/span><\/b>iizeze@yahoo.com<\/span><\/b><\/a>; 234-8033043009)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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