Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the Governor of Rivers State, has insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan has failed the people of Rivers State and Nigeria in general. Noting that the President has failed to justify the over 2.1 million votes he got from Rivers State during his first term campaign, Amaechi said Jonathan is yet to carry out any project in the state, but has rather been short-changing her.

“We gave the President nearly 2.1 million votes. Let him tell us one project he has done for us. I have challenged the President that I belong to APC. If he wants me back in PDP, let him return the oil wells to the Kalabari people.

“But the President cannot. Instead, he will take more. One of our sons; a Kalabari son, said the oil wells were taken under Rufus Ada-George. Tell him I say he is lying. He never served in any government. I served under Ada-George government and there was no oil well taken from Rivers State then.

“I served under Dr. Peter Odili. The oil well was taken in 2006. They put the money in an escrow account and by 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, they took all the money and gave it to our brothers and they converted Soku to Bayelsa. In Etche, they have taken our 41 oil wells, they are denying us our rights; we have suffered enough,” he lamented.