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Amaechi at the private gate
According to Sahara Reporters, police officers in Port Harcourt have prevented the convoy of the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi from using one of the two entrances to the government house this evening.
The governor's convoy was stopped as it made its way through the Fortes road entrance to the governor's lodge by four truck loads of policemen led by several senior officers.
An argument ensued between the policemen and the governor's aides as they claimed they were acting on orders from above.
The governor later came down to speak with the police officers who promised to extract a reversal of the order from their superiors in Abuja.
The governor's convoy had to wait for 45 minutes before finally detouring to take the Azikiwe road entrance to the government house.
However, the Police Publc Relations Officer, DSP. Angela Agabe, told National Mirror, that there was no way the policemen on duty at the spot could have deliberately blocked the state governor from accessing the Government House.
"It is not true that the police prevented the governor from accessing the road. What happened was that the police had dispersed some people who had earlier tried to open the offices of a parallel PDP in front of the GRA Police station. There is no way they could have deliberately prevented the governor from passing the road. It must have been a misunderstanding. If the policemen had known that the Governor was in the convoy, he would have been allowed easy passage “, Agabe said.