Barely A few days After Aso Rock Face-off, Jonathan, Amaechi Bury Riff, Embrace In Public.

Barely 72 hours after security personnel stopped Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State from approaching President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, both men embraced publicly yesterday in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State capital. The embrace took place at the Port-Harcourt International Airport when Jonathan was returning from his home state of Bayelsa where he commissioned a hospital facility. Presidential Villa operatives had, on Wednesday, blocked Amaechi from getting to Jonathan  at the seat of power during a dinner, an action that was interpreted in many quarters as stemming from the crisis in the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). The Aso Rock incident was the climax of the crisis in the NGF which saw the President disposed to Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State as chairman of the body as against Amaechi, who secured a second term as the NGF chairman with 19 votes to 16. Jonathan, en route Abuja after the Bayelsa visit, yesterday, embraced Amaechi at the Port-Harcourt Airport. He arrived the airport in a presidential chopper. As the president emerged from the helicopter, he made for the tarmac where the Rivers governor stood with members of his state executive council. Astonishment Both men were locked in an  embrace after a handshake while those around watched in astonishment. Those at the airport  included the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, the arrowhead of opposition to Amaechi in Rivers State, and the managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Chris Oboh. Jonathan later boarded the presidential jet for Abuja. Credit

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Call it maturity, or mere playing to the scripts; this display is a plus in my books. I find the gesture quite intriguing and well laudable for local politics and the strives that ought to be in our politicking: live for yourself and the good of others. I hope they have really made up for good, buried the hatchet and resolved their whole NGF chairmanship brouhaha....well, if the fight continues, it will only mean that the whole act of exchanging a warm embrace was nothing off a scene of a Zeb Ejiro directed movie, played out by Segun Arinze and Charles Awurum.   If my assumptions above aren't true, then it becomes rife to see it as a cosmetic re-union to delude the sensibility of few gullible Nigerians at play. With ''Time'' every scheme will be blown open again.