EFCC SHOULD STOP HARASSING GOVERNOR AMAECHI

Sir,

EFCC SHOULD STOP HARASSING GOVERNOR AMAECHI

If it is not Patience Goodluck Jonathan today, it is EFCC or ICPC harassing the government of Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi for one thing or the other. The first lady Dame Patience Jonathan recently had to show the stuff she is made of and what to expect should there exists full term for Jonathan’s presidency; she abused a State governor in public just because she is the first lady of Nigeria. People have started asking what functions are there for a first lady; the way they are intruding in the running of elected governments are becomingly unacceptable to Nigerians. This did not even exist in the military eras that one expected things like that to be. Last time it was Turai ruling the country through the late President Umaru Yar’Adua; this time it is Patience through President Goodluck Jonathan.

As if the Patience’s punches were not enough for Governor Amaechi, the presidency has resorted to using the EFCC to embarrass a prudent and working governor. What would you say then if you compared Governor Amaechi with Governor Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State who is having lots of published petitions against him for alleged cases of nepotism, construction of federal roads at costs of between N0.8billion and N1billion per kilometre, cancelling a N300million job and re-awarding it at N2.5billion, other squander-mania, high-handedness, falsehoods, kidnap-sponsorship and bribing of the anti-graft agencies?

Which of those cases has been handled by the federal government and its anti-graft agencies and its outcome made known to the public? It is time that the federal government stopped the unnecessary harassment of Governor Rotimi Amaechi. That any governor does not endorse ‘unwilling’ presidential candidate should not constitute reason for EFCC to be used in hounding.

President Jonathan may choose to write his name in gold or otherwise; the choice is his to make.

Kenneth Dagogo, Bukuru Road, Jos, Plateau State.