Outgoing Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi has formally launched a campaign against the reelection of President Jonathan, starting with a live phone-in programme.
The Vice Presidential hopeful under APC also rejected requests by Rivers elders and youths who publicly advised him to return to PDP as they saw no future in the APC.
He also expressed doubts over the sincerity of the president 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 in Port Harcourt, the state capital, vowed that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said: “I will remain in the All Progressives Congress and the state too should support the party. 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.”
He described as diversionary, federal government’s claims that the fall in revenue allocation to states was as a result of oil theft.
“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, so there is problem in our hands”, Amaechi said.
