Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Sunday
denied a statement credited to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of
Rivers State that she asked him to share the state’s funds
with her.
Amaechi had while speaking in Port Harcourt at the joint
graduation of the students of the University of Ibadan and
pioneer graduates of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education,
on Saturday was quoted as saying that his problem with
Mrs. Jonathan started after he rejected her demand.
“I refused to give them money in Abuja because if I do
that, I won’t be able to carry out any development project
or finish the road from Rumuolumeni to Rumuepirikom.
“The quarrel between me and the wife of the President is
because she said I should bring your money, Rivers people,
money and share with her,” the governor reportedly said.
But Mrs. Jonathan, in a statement by her media assistant,
Mr. Ayo Adewuyi, said Amaechi’s statement was a
deliberate attempt to malign her and score cheap political
point.
She further described the governor’s statement as a lie
designed to denigrate her person and rubbish the
Presidency.
She said she could not have made such a request from the
governor either directly or indirectly.
The statement read, “Having waited patiently for Governor
Amaechi to refute the statement credited to him about the
First Lady, (with the assumption that he was misquoted), it
has become clear that it was a deliberate attempt to
malign Dame Patience Jonathan and score cheap political
point.
“The governor may have been beclouded by the political
uncertainty surrounding him to make such a jaundiced and
unsubstantiated allegation that the First Lady asked him to
bring Rivers State’s money to share.
“This is a blatant lie designed to denigrate the person of
Dame Patience Jonathan and rubbish the Presidency. This
is to say the least, most unfortunate.
“It is crystal clear that Governor Amaechi is looking for a
cheap excuse for his failure in the governance of the state.
We say without any iota of equivocation that the First Lady
never made such a request and could not have done so in
any way either directly and indirectly.
“The First Lady as an indigene of Rivers State is more
concerned with the socio-economic development of the
state and in a peaceful atmosphere. This guerrilla political
warfare must stop.”
denied a statement credited to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of
Rivers State that she asked him to share the state’s funds
with her.
Amaechi had while speaking in Port Harcourt at the joint
graduation of the students of the University of Ibadan and
pioneer graduates of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education,
on Saturday was quoted as saying that his problem with
Mrs. Jonathan started after he rejected her demand.
“I refused to give them money in Abuja because if I do
that, I won’t be able to carry out any development project
or finish the road from Rumuolumeni to Rumuepirikom.
“The quarrel between me and the wife of the President is
because she said I should bring your money, Rivers people,
money and share with her,” the governor reportedly said.
But Mrs. Jonathan, in a statement by her media assistant,
Mr. Ayo Adewuyi, said Amaechi’s statement was a
deliberate attempt to malign her and score cheap political
point.
She further described the governor’s statement as a lie
designed to denigrate her person and rubbish the
Presidency.
She said she could not have made such a request from the
governor either directly or indirectly.
The statement read, “Having waited patiently for Governor
Amaechi to refute the statement credited to him about the
First Lady, (with the assumption that he was misquoted), it
has become clear that it was a deliberate attempt to
malign Dame Patience Jonathan and score cheap political
point.
“The governor may have been beclouded by the political
uncertainty surrounding him to make such a jaundiced and
unsubstantiated allegation that the First Lady asked him to
bring Rivers State’s money to share.
“This is a blatant lie designed to denigrate the person of
Dame Patience Jonathan and rubbish the Presidency. This
is to say the least, most unfortunate.
“It is crystal clear that Governor Amaechi is looking for a
cheap excuse for his failure in the governance of the state.
We say without any iota of equivocation that the First Lady
never made such a request and could not have done so in
any way either directly and indirectly.
“The First Lady as an indigene of Rivers State is more
concerned with the socio-economic development of the
state and in a peaceful atmosphere. This guerrilla political
warfare must stop.”
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