Earlyface

The Rivers State Governor and Chairman of
the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi
Amaechi, has given President Goodluck
Jonathan one condition to return to the
Peoples Democratic Party.
Amaechi said he was ready to go back to
the PDP if Jonathan would return Rivers oil
wells ceded to neighbouring Bayelsa State.
The governor, who spoke on Monday during
a rally organised by the All Progressives
Congress at the Liberation Stadium in Port
Harcourt, said despite the 2.1 million votes
Jonathan received in the state in 2011, the
Federal Government had not executed any
project in Rivers.
He dismissed claims that the ceding of
Rivers oil wells in Soku to Bayelsa State was
done during the tenure of former Governor
Rufus Ada George.
Amaechi said, “We gave the President nearly
2.1 million votes. Let him tell us one project
he has done for us. I have challenged the
President that I belong to APC. If he wants
me back in PDP, let him return the oil wells
to the Kalabari people and I will come back.
“But the President cannot. Instead, he will
take more. One of our sons, a Kalabari son,
said the oil wells were taken under Rufus
Ada-George. Tell him I say he is lying. He
never served in any government. I served
under Ada-George government and there
was no oil well taken from Rivers State then.
“I served under Dr. Peter Odili. The oil well
was taken in 2006. They put the money in
an escrow account and by 2007, 2008,
2009 and 2010, they took all the money and
gave to our brothers and they converted
Soku to Bayelsa.”