Why Amaechi urgently needs a governor, by Donu Kogbara
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the former Rivers State Governor and former Minister of Transportation, recently made his second bid for a presidential candidacy (the first was in 2022), but was defeated at the primaries stage by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President who basically owns the ADC opposition party to which Amaechi belongs. Amaechi’s political fortunes […]
Deserved victories
ON Friday, April 12, I told Vanguard readers that I’d recently travelled to Rwanda – to attend a conference for African Chief Executives; and I praised, as follows, some of the Nigerian VIPs who spoke at this event, including Bayelsa State Governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, and Dr Kayode Fayemi, the Governor of Ekiti State:.
A White colonial’s opinion of us
LORD Frederick Lugard, British Governor-General of Nigeria between 1914 and 1919, expressed the following views about Africans in his book, The Dual Mandate, which was published in 1926: “In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person. Lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an Oriental loves jewellery.
NDDC versus NEDC
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has just inaugurated the North-East Development Commission, NEDC, which has been given a take-off grant of N10 billion and will oversee the rehabilitation of North-Eastern communities that have been destroyed by Boko Haram terrorists.
NDDC versus NEDC
It will also be extremely unwise of Northern elite types to mismanage this opportunity to prove that they can behave like decent human beings and worthwhile leaders
Soft spots
If Amaechi graciously concedes defeat and at least sincerely tries to reciprocate reconciliatory moves, he can add a lot of value
My Rwandan experience
The likes of Fayemi and Dickson remind and teach us, by avoiding avoidable rancour, that it is not necessary for political differences of opinion to become bitter and destructive enmities
Delusions, death and disgrace
I urge Mr President to earn some genuine respect from angry Rivers people by putting a stop to this disgraceful nonsense and telling his representatives to stop spoiling his name and issuing threats
Feedback from readers
About 99 per cent of the ruling elite do not care about the Nigerian people; if they did, people-friendly policies like reduction of the elites’ humungous salaries and wages would have long been implemented
Corrupting youngsters
When seniors who attract deference give impressionable juniors the impression that Anything Goes, they are encouraging them to become lawless adults and generating serious problems for society
Rejoice!!!
Too many people have died because of this terrible quarrel between Amaechi and Wike; and many are now saying that Rivers State will only enjoy peace if both of them are removed from the system
