Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has described as untrue, claims by the Wike faction of the Rivers PDP that former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is hobnobbing with PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and has thrown his weight behind his presidency ahead of Saturday’s elections.
The Rivers faction chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council (PDPCC) through its Director of Publicity and Communications, Chief Ogbonna Nwuke, had alleged that Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi is a member of the ‘wicked’ cabal punishing the people with fuel and Naira-swap crises and challenged Amaechi to deny that he was not part of persons making life a nightmare for Nigerians.
Nwuke said Amaechi was also working secretly for the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, alleging that the former Rivers Governor recently reconciled with members of the PDP’s Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers.
He said Amaechi had been working secretly and holding meetings with Atiku and others in the cabal to starve the country of the much-needed funds in the name of politics.
Reacting through a statement made available to the media, the APC chieftain and member of APC Legacy Projects Media Team, said Amaechi remains one principled political leader in whose integrity Nigeria prides and cannot be caught in the web of political cowardice like Gov. Wike who is clearly playing the ostrich in a clear bid to escape culpability for the mountainous legacy of failure his administration is about to bequeath to Rivers State and her people.
Eze recalled that in 2014, when it was a taboo to be associated with General Muhammadu Buhari and opposition interests, Rt. Hon. Amaechi singlehandedly supported Buhari–and in 2015 and 2019.