The
Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum,
Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Friday said the wife of the President, Mrs.
Patience Jonathan, lied against him in her public account of the
misunderstanding between him and the President’s wife a few weeks
ago.
The
governor spoke in Port Harcourt when clergymen of the Niger Delta
Bishops Forum paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House.
He
said it was important for the public to have a true picture of what
transpired between him and the President’s wife.
He
said, “I want to be put on record that the wife of the President
said when my wife came to beg me, I pushed her away. I have never
quarrelled with my wife publicly and I will never quarrel with my
wife publicly.
“There
was no time I pushed my wife away and there is no time I will push my
wife away. I just want to correct that so that nobody goes away with
the impression that somebody told my wife, ‘go and talk to your
husband, she came and I pushed her away’.
“No,
that day, I simply walked away into a bus and I sat down until they
finished. So, all I did was to go back to the bus to enable my wife
to perform her official function of someone who had received the wife
of the President and escort her to all the places she wanted to go
to.”
Amaechi
said his perceived misunderstanding with the First Lady arose out of
his desire to provide an environment conducive for learning for the
children of Okrika; the home town of Mrs. Jonathan, adding that he
had enormous respect for both President Goodluck Jonathan and his
wife.
The
clerics were in the state capital to mediate in the political crisis
in the state.
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