Tag: Rotimi Amaechi

N96bn Alleged Fraud: Wike, Rivers leaders set to meet, decide Amaechi, Cole, others’ fate

Aminu Imam

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that leaders of the State would meet to decide on whether to commence criminal prosecution of the former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, over the alleged fraudulent sales of some valued State assets and diversion of State funds. The governor said those whose fate would also be decided during the meeting, would include, Tonye Cole, Sahara Energy Ltd, and former Rivers State Commissioner for Transport, George Tolofari. Wike, who gave this indication during a media parley attended by Rivers elders in Abuja, last…

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N96bn fraud probe: Amaechi loses at Supreme Court

Aminu Imam

…To face Wike’s panel The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the suit by former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, to stop the planned probe of N96 billion fraud allegedly involving him during his tenure as governor. Recall that Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, had set up a seven-man panel to probe Amaechi’s eight-year tenure as Governor. The panel probed some transactions estimated at about N96billion carried out by Rivers State Government under Amaechi. The panel, however, announced Amaechi’s administration fraudulently sold some assets belonging to the State. The listed valuable assets are…

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2023: “I’ve known poverty; I still drink garri three times a day” – Amaechi

Aminu Imam

Former transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi, says he’s a better candidate to be voted president because he understands the sufferings of poor Nigerians. “I can connect easily with the people. I wasn’t born into a rich family. My father was a poor man, and the only English my mother knows how to speak is pidgin English. I ate garri three times a day, and I still eat garri three times a day till today, so I know poverty”, the ex-minister said. Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers, made this assertion while…

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Maritime stakeholders seek dissolution of Boards of
NPA, MAN, others ‘hurriedly inaugurated’ by Amaechi

Aminu Imam

Stakeholders in the maritime industry have called on the Federal Government to dissolve the boards of some agencies, including the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA), National Inland Waterways Authority, (NIWA), Maritime Academy of Nigeria, (MAN), and the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, (NITT), “hurriedly” inaugurated by former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi in Abuja on Friday last week. Recall that on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari directed all members of the Federal Executive Council running for elective offices to resign. A memo dated 11th May 2022 signed by the…

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2023: ‘Northerners in South won’t support Amaechi for president’ – ACF South leader

Aminu Imam

The leader of the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), in the South, Musa Sa’idu, has said northerners in the South will not support the presidential bid of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, saying the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), was religiously insensitive. Sa’idu alleged that while Amaechi was serving as the governor in Rivers State, his administration took over the cemetery for northerners in Port Harcourt, adding that every effort he (Sa’idu) made for reversal of the action were futile. Continuing, he said the alleged action…

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2023 Presidency: Ganduje refuses to endorse Amaechi

Aminu Imam

…Says Kano is a ‘swing’ State Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has refused to endorse former Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, for the 2023 Presidency. Amaechi, who pulled out of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to pursue his presidential ambition, visited Kano yesterday as part of his consultations ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential primary. At the meeting, with other APC stakeholders present, Ganduje said Kano as a ‘swing State, will continue to swing’. He added that Amaechi would know where the State eventually swung to at the right…

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2023: “I thought you’re voting Asiwaju?” – El-Rufa’i to APC delegates as they endorse Amaechi

Aminu Imam

Delegates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kaduna, have declared support for Ex-minister and 2023 presidential aspirant, Rotimi Amaechi. This is coming after they had pledged to support the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speaking during a consultative meeting with Amaechi, State governor, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufa’i, queried the delegates on who they wanted to vote for, and shouts of: ‘Dan Amanar’, ‘your choice’, ‘Amaechi’ rang through the room. He responded;” I thought you were voting Asiwaju?”, the delegates continued to express support for the…

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“I will support whoever Buhari favours as president in 2023” – Amaechi

Aminu Imam

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he will support whoever President Muhammadu prefers as a candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Recall that on April 9, Amaechi declared his intention to run for the 2023 presidency on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform. According to an issued statement released by his media office yesterday, Amaechi said if Buhari decides to back another candidate, he will fall in line. The statement quoted the Minister as speaking of his loyalty to the president during a consultative meeting at the Rivers APC…

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2023: “I am the only APC aspirant with solutions to Nigeria’s problems” – Amaechi

Aminu Imam

The All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday, said he is the only aspirant of the party with the solution to the myriad of challenges facing the country. Amaechi, who spoke when he paid a consultative visit to the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, the State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, said when elected president of Nigeria, he won’t ask for solutions to fix the country’s challenges but, will come with the solutions to solve the challenges.…

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2023 Presidency: ‘Tinubu remains our rallying point’, Says Sanwo-Olu, as Amaechi visits Lagos

Aminu Imam

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has informed Rotimi Ameachi, a presidential hopeful, that the ambition of Bola Tinubu is the “rallying point” of the State. The governor stated this yesterday, in Marina, Lagos, where he received the Minister of Transportation. Amaechi and Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, are presidential hopefuls on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Sanwo-Olu, who wished the minister well in his presidential ambition, noted that he’s eminently qualified for the top job, however, said he is a “direct beneficiary” of Tinubu’s leadership, and…

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