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Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi says time has come for Nigerians to begin to demand for accountable stewardship from their elected representatives as a right.
  Leaders he said were elected to serve and not to present themselves as Lords or Masters over the masses whose mandate they hold.
  Governor Amaechi, who spoke through the state Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari during a dinner organized for visiting participants in the Foreign Service Academy, at Government House Port Harcourt, said as a matter of policy the state government has made it clear for people to ask their leaders questions on the work for which they were elected to do.
  “Accountable stewardship is something that every Nigerian, especially the elite must begin to demand as a matter of right because you cannot pay the kind of taxes that you pay, and no one tells you what they do with the money” the governor remarked.
  He said he believes that votes must begin to count to have credible elections in the country, pointing out that it can happen when people decide to choose leaders that can be accessible to them, and be ready to ask questions.
  Governor Amaechi, who opined that people should stop singing Praises of leaders for fulfilling their legitimate obligations, said the elite should blaze the trail of a revolution to change the nation’s electoral system, by speaking out because the poor cannot champion the course.
  Responding, the leader of the team, Ambassador Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie said they were impressed with what they have seen in Port Harcourt in the past three days they toured the state, adding that they would leave with a fond memory of the city.
  “Port Harcourt has changed for better”, he remarked, adding that they have seen a lot of things that are worthy of emulation in Rivers and other South-South states they have toured.
  Ambassador Nnadozie explained that it is customary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send those joining the ministry to the Foreign Service Academy to take courses in Law and Diplomacy, as well as international relations, and that is what they have done in the past one year.