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  • APC Primaries: Delegates Who collected money regretting now — Amaechi

    APC Primaries: Delegates Who collected money regretting now — Amaechi

    Immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said those who voted during the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary are regretting their decision.

    Amaechi said delegates who allowed money to influence their decision during the presidential primary are now regretting it.

    The former APC presidential aspirant spoke during the 60th birthday celebration of Apostle Eugene Ogu, General Overseer of Abundant Life Evangel Mission, over the weekend in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

    He noted that throwing money around to get votes would not solve Nigeria’s problems.

    Amaechi also urged men of God to pray for the ordinary Nigerians to enable them elect a President that would solve the country’s problems.

    According to Amaechi: “Those who voted at the APC primaries, who are they? They are ordinary Nigerians. The small money they got solved their immediate problem, now they are saying they made a mistake, you are now hearing different things.

    “If you are praying for us, pray for the leadership of the country, but also pray for ordinary Nigerians to be able to choose the right President to govern the country.

    “Giving money is not the solution to Nigeria’s problem. The solution to Nigeria’s problem is that all of you must all rise.”

    During the APC presidential primaries in Abuja, Amaechi was beaten by the party’s flagbearer, Bola Tinubu.

    The former Rivers State governor came second behind Tinubu who polled the highest number of votes.

    Reports had it that the APC presidential primary was marred by vote-buying.

  • Alleged N96bn Fraud: Supreme Court Dismisses Amaechi’s Appeal to Stop Probe

    Alleged N96bn Fraud: Supreme Court Dismisses Amaechi’s Appeal to Stop Probe

    The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi seeking to stop his probe over an alleged N96 billion fraud.

    In a lead judgment prepared by Justice Emmanuel Augie but read by Justice Adamu Jairo, the apex court dismissed the appeal of Mr Amaechi on grounds that the issue of not being given a fair hearing does not arise as no one is on trial.

    The move by Rivers State is a panel of enquiry into the alleged fraud.

    Mr Amaechi had prayed the apex court to prohibit Governor Nyesom Wike from investigating his eight-year tenure as the executive governor of the state.

    The former governor predicated his opposition to probe on the ground that it was aimed at witch-hunting him, embarrassing him, humiliating him, and to as well disgrace him in view of his political differences with his successor.

    Governor Wike constituted a seven-man through his counsel and insisted that the Commission of Inquiry headed by Justice George Omereji was to look into how N96b was allegedly withdrawn from the Treasury of the state government and how it was expended.

    The court also ordered Mister Amaechi to pay the sum of one million Naira to Governor Wike as a cost.

    With the final decision of the Apex court, Amaechi will be made to appear before the Commission of Inquiry headed by Justice George Omereji to give an account of how N96B was allegedly withdrawn from the Treasury of the state government and how it was expended.

    The Commission of Inquiry inaugurated by governor Nyesom Wike is to look into the lawful or otherwise of the alleged sales of valuable assets of the state.

    The listed valuable assets are Omoku Gas Turbine, Afam Gas Turbine, Trans Amadi Gas Turbine, Eleme Gas Turbine, Olympia Hotel, and the award of contract for the execution of the monorail project.

  • Amaechi gives reasons for backing Buhari, rejecting Jonathan in 2015

    Amaechi gives reasons for backing Buhari, rejecting Jonathan in 2015

    The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan offered him every opportunity to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but he rejected it.

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    The minister says he went ahead to support President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 because he is not tribalistic.

    The former governor of Rivers State was speaking in Port Harcourt on Saturday while receiving some party members who defected from the PDP.

    The minister explained that whatever he says in Rivers State would happen, adding that he would soon return to declare prayers in the state.

    He claimed that God gave him victory over Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

    “You know, when Goodluck fought us, he was not fighting me, he was fighting God and I knew he would fail.

    Tell them from next year prayer will start, I will come to Port Harcourt like I used to come and I will say this will happen and it will happen.

    “Let me tell you who I am; I do not drink, I have never tasted alcohol in my life, I don’t smoke; I am not tribalistic. Whether in Rivers State or in Nigeria, I am not tribalistic.

    ‘If I were tribalistic, President Goodluck Jonathan offered me the opportunity to remain in PDP, he offered me all sort of opportunities and I said that I have given my allegiance to Buhari because I am not tribalistic.”