Amaechi must meet Jonathan –APC govs

 

Seven governors of the yet-to-be registered All Progressives Congress (APC) were on Thursday guests of their Rivers State counterpart, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in solidarity over the lingering crisis in the state.

Their spokesman, Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, said that there was the need for Amaechi to meet President Goodluck Jonathan over security concern.

Earlier, pro-Amaechi supporters in their thousands, had taken over  the Port Harcourt International Airport, to welcome the governors, but  suffered initial  hitch.

The governors, were, Raji Fashola (Lagos), Abiola Ajimobi(Oyo) Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeshola (Osun) and Ibukunle Amosun (Ogun). The deputy governors of Nasarawa, Damesh Barua Luka, Imo, Prince Eze Madumere and Alhaji Mukhtar Anka of Zamfara, respectively, represented  their bosses.

Amaechi’s supporters had arrived  the Port Harcourt International Airport  very early in the morning, in the anticipation that anti-Amaechi group, led by  Grassroots Development Initiative(GDI), were going to be at the airport to disturb the visiting governors, as they did on Tuesday, July 16.

But information later filtered to them that the visitors were going to land at the Air force base, instead of the Port Harcourt International Airport.

Recall that their counterparts Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso (Kano), Alhaji Mu’azu Babangida Aliu (Niger) and Murtala Nyako, Adamawa on Tuesday visited the government House, Port Harcourt.

 Governor Fayemi, who spoke on behalf of the visiting governors shortly after a closed-door meeting with Amaechi, said it is  necessary for Amaechi to meet with President Jonathan  to  brief  him on the security  situation in the State.