There are pressures on Rivers State governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to visit Hon. Micheal Chinda, the injured lawmaker representing Obio/Akpor Constituency II in the State House of Assembly.
Some influential persons close to the Governor, according to a source, have been calling on him to visit the lawmaker to assuage frayed nerves, especially the leadership of the state People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which have accused him of backing and shielding Lloyd from being arrested.
“Some persons that want peace to reign in the state are doing everything possible to resolve the crisis; and they have called on the Governor to visit Hon. Chinda in the hospital,” said the source.
The source added that these persons have also been meeting with different stakeholders within and outside the state to find a solution to the crisis.
On whether the Governor will heed the call, the source, said that nobody can predict the Governor, who according to him, “listens to himself alone”
It would be recalled that the leadership of the PDP had described the Governor as “unremorseful and unforgiving” for not visiting the lawmaker since he was injured by the Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Chidi Lloyd, who the police have declared wanted.
The state chairman of the party, Hon. Felix Obuah, the Minister of State for Education, Chief Ezenwo Nyesom Wike; former Deputy Sspeaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Austin Opara; former minister of Transport, Dr Abiye Sekibo, Hon. Kenneth Kobani and Boma Iyaye had visited the lawmaker in London.
