Presidency accuses Amaechi, APC of ‘treason’

The Presidency yester­day accused the Riv­ers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the All Progressives Con­gress (APC) of “treason”.

Amaechi, who is the the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, had on Tuesday, canvassed im­proved funding of the Armed Forces in the ongoing counter-insurgency campaign.

But in a statement yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said Amaechi’s position amounted to “treason­able pronouncement.”

Okupe also tongue lashed the presidential candidate of the APC, General Muham­madu Buhari, who he accused of “compromising his personal integrity and enviable military antecedents” to endorse such statement issued on his behalf.

“The statement by the Direc­tor General of the Buhari Cam­paign Organization, Rotimi Amaechi, asking some soldiers in the Nigerian Army to mutiny against the military authorities is a treasonable pronounce­ment.

“No responsible Nigerian or political organization for that matter should ever contemplate encouraging or supporting mutiny in the Nigerian Army under any circumstances what­soever.

“It is a pity that because of Amaechi’s huge financial com­mitment to the General Buhari campaign, the presidential can­didate of the APC has compro­mised his personal integrity and enviable military antecedents to endorse such reckless state­ment issued on his behalf,” Ok­upe said in the statement.