Anxiety as security chiefs meet over Amaechi

 There was anxiety yesterday in political circles in Rivers State over a meeting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, between some Presidency officials and some Rivers State security chiefs.

The agenda was not immediately clear last night, but a source said it was to discuss the political crisis in Rivers.

“They planned to how to dislodge Governor Rotimi Amaechi, “the source said.

Rivers House Speaker Otelemabu Dan Amachree has raised the alarm that plot to use five lawmakers to impeach Amaechi was in the offing.

There are 27 lawmakers backing the governor, who is locked in a battle of wits with some politicians for the control of the local Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to the source, a close associate of the President summoned the security chiefs to Yenagoa last Saturday.

The meeting was held at the instance of the “anti-Amaechi forces, one of whom is a power broker “down”.

“At the meeting the power broker thoroughly berated the heads of the security agencies present for not tackling the ‘Amaechi situation’ clinically.

“The arrowhead (the power broker) told his fear-stricken guests that if they were all working like the State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, the Amaechi matter” would have been resolved,” the source quoted the power broker as saying.

“The power broker purportedly told them that she is very worried that Governor Amaechi still has a stronghold on the state, despite the onslaught against him and his political structures, it was learnt.

The police, last Friday sealed off the secretariat of Obio-Akpor Local Council.

Amachree and members of the House have accused Mbu of working against the interest of the people.

Source: The Nation