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Gov. Wike, Abe deploying ‘witchcraft’ against Amaechi’s reappointment
by Buhari – Eze
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 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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