A chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has
alleged that there were campaigns of calumny to de-market the immediate past
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, by the State Governor,
Nyesom Wike and a former Rivers lawmaker, Senator Magnus Abe.
He said the campaigns were a mere
waste of time and effort in futility, describing them as acts of witchcraft,
diabolical, wicked, unjust and unacceptable.
Eze accused the Governor of
sponsoring some negative media campaigns targeted against the former Minister
and the immediate past Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial
District, Senator Magnus Abe.
He said that Abe and Wike were
trying to force President Buhari’s hand against re-appointing Amaechi.
However, Eze in a statement he
forwarded on Thursday, said all opinions of Nigerians, as well as
key figures within and outside government, have placed the former Governor of
Rivers state several miles ahead of his traducers.
Eze alleged that Wike and Abe had
engaged the services of some media influencers to be issuing out press
statements and appearing as guests on some national television stations and be
buying advertorial pages in some national dailies, and requesting President
Buhari not to renominate Hon. Amaechi into his cabinet.
He, however, described all these
efforts as “acts of witchcraft, diabolical, wicked, unjust and unacceptable,
noting that Amaechi, by his patriotic zeal and commitment for a new Nigeria,
merits to be reappointed into the yet-to-be constituted cabinet of President
Muhammad Buhari.
“Besides the fact that Amaechi
served as the Director General of the Buhari Presidential Campaigns, a role he
had previously played in 2015 and happily delivered on both mandates as the
President won his re-election in February, coupled with the revolution that he
brought into the rail system in Nigeria, he has beaten his enemies to their
game.
“He has performed creditably well
in the transportation ministry; the former minister completed some ongoing
railway projects like the Kaduna-Abuja road, the Abuja rail and Warri-Itakpe
rail. The Lagos-Ibadan railway will be completed early next year and for
continuity, which has been one of the hallmarks of President Buhari’s
administration, Amaechi’s nomination is a foregone conclusion.
“Assuming all that Amaechi
achieved on behalf of Nigeria and President Buhari do not guarantee his
renomination, then the acceptance by majority of Nigerians that Amaechi was not
only the best minister in the immediate past federal executive cabinet but the
most outstanding among his colleagues, which they indicated in the various
media surveys, will ensure his nomination.
“If merit and position of
majority of Nigerians will not earn Amaechi a renomination, then the spiritual
angle to his political career will come to play. This is a man who always have
a second chance in all his political career”, Eze said.
He supported his positions by
stating that Amaechi is the only Nigerian who has become a two-time Speaker of
the Rivers State House of Assembly, two-time Governor of Rivers state, two-time
Chairman of the Speakers Forum and Governors Forum of Nigeria, adding, “apart
from all these spiritually induced appointments, he is the only African that
has piloted a presidential campaign organisation two consecutive times and won
on the two occasions.
“With all these, it is not in the
character of Amaechi not to be renominated again to serve out his second term
as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”, he said.
Eze quoted Prince Zeeyan S. Kudu,
a well known new breed politician as saying, “Despite our differences in
politics, honestly, Amaechi is doing a wonderful job, let him keep the lamp
burning he is surely going to the Next level, he is the only Minister I respected
in this administration.”
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