President Jonathan Is Supervising A Highly Corrupt Govt, Says Gov. Amaechi

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said President Goodluck Jonathan "is supervising a highly corrupt government."

He also claimed that "there is no democracy yet in Nigeria."

The governor, who spoke in Abuja on Saturday, insisted that he had no personal quarrel with President Jonathan, adding that if governance could be separated from the President, he (Jonathan) "remains a good man."

He, however, regretted that the President "is supervising a highly corrupt government."

He described the form of government being practised in Nigeria today as diarchy.

While reacting to the invasion of the National Assembly by the police on Thursday, Amaechi described the action as uncivilised.

He said the actions of the police in recent times had shown that they had been pocketed by the Presidency and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

He said, "We don't have democracy in Nigeria yet. What we have is diarchy. We don't have a democracy. Diarchy is dictatorship. The Federal Government has appropriated the police as its personal property. The FG has taken over the police. See the way the police took over the National Assembly. By law, the police have no power to invade the National Assembly and they have no power to stop the Speaker from going in or out of the National Assembly complex. But they don't obey law."

He insisted that his party, the All Progressives Congress, would not go to court if the PDP decided to rig the 2015 presidential elections.

Instead of going to court, he said the APC would form a parallel government.

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