Embattled Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has incurred the wrath of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, for allegedly attempting to polarize the students’ body.
NANS also accused Gov. Amaechi of attempting to use some of its national executives as proxies in his rift with President Goodluck Jonathan.
NANS President, Comrade Olayinka Gbadebo, who spoke at a media briefing at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, alleged that the Rivers State Government had allowed itself to be misled by an expelled executive of the union.
He said, “The attention of NANS leadership had been drawn to unsavory attempts by the Executive Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi on his desperate efforts at polarizing the united leadership of our noble organization.
“It is no longer news that the Rivers State Governor, who has been misinformed by agent provocateurs and swindlers has agreed as part of his current political travails to throw our dear organization into chaos”.
According to Gbadebo, Gov. Amaechi’s attempt to drag the leadership of the students’ body to side with him was rebuffed which led to the conclusion that the current crisis is nothing but “a political ego trip that has now degenerated into an incurable one.”
He added that “Having rebuffed several overtures made to the NANS President by Governor Amaechi, he has now found an ally in the expelled Deputy Senate President of NANS, Comr. John Shema of Benue State University, Makurdi to do the hatchet job”.
The student leader also accused the Rivers governor of sponsoring a press conference against President Goodluck Jonathan.
He also questioned why Gov. Amaechi would fund a project tour with the union in the state.
“Comr. John Shima in the month of August issued a sponsored press statement in support of Governor Rotimi Amaechi against President of our dear country, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
“For correcting the wrong impression already sold to the unsuspecting public, the hawks and clowns around Governor Amaechi have refused to let NANS operate functionally in their desperate bid to extort tax payers’ money.
“If we may ask, what does governor Rotimi Amaechi Need NANS for? Is NANS an extension of Nigeria Governor’s Forum which he led and successfully polarized? Or, the Peoples Democratic Party that he has elected to factionalize”, Gbadebo asked rhetorically.
