2015: Rivers Economy Will Crash If Jonathan Wins – Amaechi

Rivers State governor and chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has said that the economy of the state will crash if President Goodluck Jonathan wins a second term of office come 2015.

This is as the governor expressed doubts over the sincerity of President Jonathan to ensure free and fair general elections in 2015 as promised by the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega.

Amaechi, who spoke on Tuesday evening when he appeared on ‘Hard Facts’, a live phone-in radio programme, which was monitored in Port Harcourt, the state capital, said he would never dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) adding that there were plots to defraud the states once Jonathan is re-elected.

He said, “I will remain in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and I will support APC. I have seen that the state needs to support APC; the reason, being that I am supporting APC, not because I have not performed; but because if President Goodluck Jonathan wins a second term, the economy will crash.

“If he wins a second term, nothing will happen here. The only thing that will happen here is that buccaneers will loot the cash; all the money we are getting. They have already apportioned who will get what money.”

The governor expressed mixed feelings on the nation’s development strides, even as the country celebrates its 54th Independence anniversary, describing as diversionary, federal government’s claims that the fall in revenue allocation to states was as a result of oil theft.

Amaechi said, “Today is better; tomorrow is bad; next tomorrow may be worse. It has never been this bad. It wasn’t that bad during Shagari government as it is now. As I told you, some states can’t pay salaries.