Fani-Kayode accuses Governor Amaechi of Treason
The former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused the Rivers state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi of treason after he allegedly said the All Progressives Congress would not hesitate to form a parallel government if the Peoples’ Democratic Party rigged the 2015 presidential election.
Fani-Kayode, who urged the Federal government to charge the governor for the statement, disclosed this while speaking in Umuahia, Abia State, on Friday after his two-day visit to the state.
He also bemoaned the attitude of the lawmakers during the chaos at the National Assembly complex on Thursday, while accusing them of breaking the laws of the country instead of upholding them.
He said: “For the first time in the history of our country I saw elected legislators attempting to break down wall, attempting to break down gates. I saw them scaling the gate. I saw some of them in torn clothes, struggling through the police lines, I saw them breaking the law, and I saw them display the highest level of indiscipline and lack of respect for constituted authority.
“Some public figures may shy away from speaking the truth but I will not, no matter whoever is involved. Legislators took the law into their own hands. Broke down gates, jumped through the gates, fought the police and created commotion and shameful acts.
“If this were to be in any other country particularly America or Uk that for whatever reasons a line was drawn by the police and security agencies, and individuals no matter how high or how much respected or loved chose to defy them and cross the lines, injured some policemen, and they defied the police , went through the tear gas, and ignored the warnings , the police would have been forced to use a very high degree of force.”
According to Fani-Kayode, if the lawmakers felt the police had no right to lock them out of the National Assembly complex, they should have gone to court to seek redress rather than take the laws into their hands.
“Again when you look at the comments made by my old friend, Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, I am alarmed, I am deeply disturbed and discouraged. He said that if PDP comes back in 2015 that not only would they make the country ungovernable, they would also set up a parallel government, and that there would be anarchy in this country.”
