Insist On Good Governance, Transparent Elections – Gov Amaechi Urges Nigerians

Rivers State Governor Rotimi
Amaechi has urged Nigerians to
demand good governance and the
conduct of transparent elections.
Amaechi made the call at a
conference of the state council on
information in Port Harcourt on
Thursday.
He insisted that laxity among the
electorate was responsible for weak
governance in Nigeria.
He said Nigerians had a greater
percentage of blame for bad
leadership in the country than the
leaders.
"The people should demand
transparent election and good
governance and where they do not,
they are 80 per cent of the problem,"
he said.
Amaechi said the citizens must avoid
remaining quiet when things went
wrong in leadership on the
assumption that nemesis would
catch up with bad leaders.
He said such belief had
impoverished the nation, while the
leaders continued to squander
national resources.
"Insist that election must be
transparent; nobody will give you
your right, demand it and claim it,"
the governor said.
He explained that his administration
had completed 250 modern primary
schools, which would be delivered to
the host communities in September.
Amaechi added that students of the
schools would be equipped with
laptops, tablets, beds and free
feeding for nine months after which
the parents would take over
responsibility of their training.
He said his administration would
inaugurate the "Unity bridge," linking
two coastal communities, Opobo
and Ikuru, to land transportation, in
January.
The governor said his administration
had also built a new school of
nursing, which students would move
into in December.
Meanwhile, a High Court sitting in
Port Harcourt has set aside July 29,
2013, for ruling on the right of the
Nigeria Police to investigate an
alleged assassination plot against the
State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi
and Speaker, House of Assembly,
Otelemaba Amachree.
The presiding judge, Justice
Adolphus Enebeli, took the decision
on Thursday, following a heated
argument on the reason for and
against the proposed investigation of
the alleged plot by the police.
Amachree had gone to court to
challenge the right of the police to
investigate the allegation of a plot to
assassinate him and the state
governor.