RIVERS CRISIS: Amaechi And 4 Northern Governors Held Hostage At Port Harcourt Airport

RIVERS CRISIS: Amaechi And 4 Northern Governors Held Hostage At Port Harcourt Airport

 

Posted on July 16, 2013

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the governors of Jigawa, Kano, Niger and Adamawa earlier this morning were held hostage in the airport by protestors allegedly loyal to Goodluck Jonathan blocked off the airport.
Amaechi had earlier arrived in a different flight from the Nation’s capital Abuja around 9a.m could not move out of the VIP lounge of the airport till the four other governors arrived as he was worried that his convey might be targeted by the crowd.
Eyewitnesses say that the protesters came to the airport as early as 7am and by 8 the crowd was already double its earlier size and had almost taken over the airport with the police giving them protection.

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