THE Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has called on the people of the state to vote out the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government in the 2015 elections to secure their future.
Amaechi said the PDP had nothing to offer the Kalabari people and maintained that the only way for the people to regain their lost oil wells and benefit from democratic governance was to vote out the PDP.
The governor spoke at Degema Local Government Area of the state after inaugurating an 8,000 capacity football stadium complex built by the local government.
Amaechi explained that President Goodluck Jonathan was taking sides in the Soku oil wells dispute, saying, “In the meeting before Kalabari chiefs, Mr. President said to us, ‘you people call it Soku, we from Bayelsa call it Oluasiri’. Is Soku Oluasiri?,” Amaechi queried.
The governor, who noted that the people of the state had no faith in the President to return the oil wells, also explained that the revenue from the oil wells was already being spent by Bayelsa because they were in the Presidency.
He stressed that the opportunity before the peoples of the state was to vote President Jonathan out of power, adding that the President would not serve the interest of Rivers people.
“As President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he is not supposed to take sides. The moment he said it (disputed oil wells) is called Oluasiri, he is taking sides and we have no faith in Mr. President returning our oil wells.
“They have taken the (Soku) oil wells; they are spending the money because they have the Presidency. The only way you can get back your oil wells is to vote out Mr. President.
“The only opportunity you have now is your vote. Vote him out, he is not from Rivers, he is from Bayelsa. He has not and will not serve us and I have said here, let Mr. President tell us what he has done for us,” he said.