Five State Governors including those of Oyo State, Imo State, Edo State and two others will accompany President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States when he meets President Barack Obama in Washington, DC on July 19th, 2015. According to Sahara Reporters, the five Governors are separate from an 18-man delegation made up of top aides and political associates of the President. The former Governor of Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi, the former Vice Presidential candidate to Buhari Tunde Bakare, and former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Adamu will be on the Presidential delegation. In addition to these delegates, President […]
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Amaechi, Bakare, And Farouk Adamu On Buhari’s 18-Man Delegation To The US
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APC Says The Former Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi Is Not Corrupt
The Secretary, Media Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State and former Chairman of Emohua Local Government Area of the state, Hon. Godstime Orlukwu has described as baseless, petty jealousy, fear, and vendetta, the statement issued by the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accusing former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi of corruption. Orlukwu maintained that Amaechi’s government if anything, could only be accused of carrying out too many projects in the state and not corruption. The former council boss disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja. “Amaechi was not given to luxurious life and […]
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“Rivers People Know I Don’t Like Money” Amaechi Tells Nigerians Why He Deserves Appointment
Rotimi Amaechi, immediate past governor of Rivers state, has again raised alarm over alleged plot of Nyesom Wike, his successor, to tarnish his reputation. Amaechi urged the people of Rivers, who he said are aware of his anti-corruption stance to defend him, saying Wike is desperate to make sure that he does not get any appointment in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. TheCable reports that Amaechi was speaking in Abuja late Sunday during a reception that his friends organised in his honour. “Governor Nyesome Wike has again sponsored one advert in a bid to rubbish me. Only God knows that if […]
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Amaechi Is Corrupt And Has Raped Rivers State In An Extreme Manner Says PDP
Claim by the former Governor of Rivers State, Mr Rotimi Amaechi at a function in Abuja over the weekend that President Muhammadu Buhari is begging him to accept appointment as Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria or Secretary to the Government of the Federation has been described by the Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as tantamount to glorifying corruption, and which also exposes the President’s ‘fight against corruption’ as anti-people and targeted at only members of the PDP. The PDP, insisting that the former Governor of Rivers State, Mr Amaechi, is corrupt and has raped the […]
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‘Remi Oyeyemi: The “Stoning” of Rotimi Amaechi Cc: @ChibuikeAmaechi
“You have stoned nobody; that is why we are stealing………” - Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State in PUNCH December 15, 2013 “If you don’t take your destiny in your hands, we will go and other leaders will come and continue stealing.” - Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State in PUNCH December 15, 2013 “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglas (1817 – 1895) Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has created a reputation for himself as being against impunity and corruption. He has at one time encouraged Nigerians to […]
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In Rivers State, The Court Today Permitted Governor Wike To Probe Amaechi’s Tenure
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Thursday dismissed the suit filed by a former governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, challenging the setting up of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to probe his administration. Punch Newspaper reports that the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, had constituted the Justice George Omereji-led judicial commission of inquiry to probe the sale of assets belonging to the state by the Amaechi administration. But Amaechi had gone to court to challenge the setting up of the commission. However, Justice Simeon Amadi, who delivered judgement on suit number PHC/187/15, affirmed that the […]
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Wike Lied On Empty Treasury; We Left Him Billions Of Naira In Cash And Assets – Amaechi
The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has refuted claims by his successor Nyesom Wike that he left an empty treasury. Governor Wike had consistently maintained that he met a completely empty treasury when he took over as governor. Only on Wednesday, while trying to justify why he took a total of N30billion bank loans from Zenith and Access banks under 30 days in office, Wike had through his spokesman, Opunabo Inko-Tariah told yesterday on 95.1FM, a radio station in Port Harcourt that he met an empty treasury when he took over government. However, Amaechi has openly put a lie to Wike’s claim, […]
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Rotimi Amaechi Is Not Corrupt, APC Insists
Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has risen in defence of their leader and a former governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on the allegations of corruption levelled against him by the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike,. The APC in the state dismissed the claim by Wike that Amaechi had foreign bank accounts. Describing the allegations against the immediate past governor as lacking in substance, the state Chairman of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, said that such claims were mere fabrications aimed at ridiculing him and poisoning the mind of President Muhamadu Buhari against the Ikwerre-born politician. […]
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Amaechi Reportedly Jets To London In Anger After SGF Appointment, How Wike’s Report To Buhari Nailed His Chances
The recent appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari have sent shock waves across his party, why the rest of the nation watches in amazement. One of the victims, Rotimi Amaechi, has left the shores of Nigeria in anger , for United Kingdom because of what one of his close allies tagged ” utter shock with Buhari’s last night’s appointments” Amaechi was perceived as the cash cow and the arrowhead of the assault against former president, and kinsmen, Goodluck Jonathan. Pointblanknews.com gathered that the key factor that nailed Amaechi was a damning preliminary report of his stewardship forwarded to Buhari by Governor […]
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Amaechi Says Wike Is Also Corrupt Reasons He Wont Be Appearing Before The Judiciary Of Inquiry
Former governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, accused his successor, Mr Nyesom Wike, of also being corrupt. - The former governor spoke, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, while addressing loyalists of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Amaechi said he was in the Rivers State capital to quietly attend a church program and will leave same day, adding that he had clear documents pointing at the alleged corruption acts of the governor. Amaechi vowed never to appear before the Justice George Omereji Commission of Inquiry investigating alleged sale of the assets of the state by his government, insisting that the […]
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Campaign Against Amaechi Will Deny Rivers A Federal Appointment Says Former Speaker
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Prince Chibudom Nwuche has called on politicians in Rivers State to eschew the negative culture of bitterness, blackmail and chicanery in their desperate bid to witch-hunt and to stop Rivers sons and daughters from being elevated to higher national duties. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, the former presiding officer in the National Assembly lamented the recurring situation where deserving Rivers sons and daughters are often willfully blackmailed and maligned by unscrupulous politicians in the State in a bid to prevent their elevation at the federal level, and consequently lose […]
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Amaechi Squandered N53.930 Billion From Reserve Fund Revealed Rivers Probe Commission
Ongoing probe of the administration of former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi by the State Judicial Commission of Inquiry has revealed how the sum of N53.930 billion was withdrawn out of the total N55 billion saved in the state reserved fund, originally meant to serve as a bail-out for the state in the case of emergency. A Third Witness in the matter and representative of the First Bank of Nigeria, FBN Limited, which happens to be the trustees of the funds, Mr. Olufemi Okin, yesterday in Port Harcourt, gave evidence regarding the FBN Trustees relationship to the reserved funds. Testifying […]
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Rotimi Amaechi, Kayode Fayemi, Tunde Fashola Fail Security Screening To Emerge Buhari’s Ministers
As the Department of State Service, DSS, continues the screening of some ministerial nominees, indications emerged at the weekend that three immediate past governors, Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Ameachi and Kayode Fayemi, have allegedly failed to pass the President’s anti-corruption test. The trio worked hard for the former Head of State to emerge the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential flag bearer as well as for him to get elected President and were seen as top contenders for positions in Buhari’s cabinet. A highly placed security source at the weekend told Nigerian Pilot Sunday that the DSS did not clear three ministerial […]
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Former Governor Amaechi Accused Of Withdrawing N55bn From Rivers’ Treasury In 1 Year
Former governor of Nigeria’s Oil rich Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi has been dragged into a fresh scandal of alleged looting of state treasury. Amaechi, an All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain who is widely reported to have funded the President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign heavily is reported to have drained Rivers state reserves from N55 billion to N1.24 billion within the time frame of a single year. Out of the amount allegedly withdrawn by Amaechi, N53.93 billion was said to be without a list of expenditure. Budgit, a civic startup that disseminates budgets and public data, made the revelation on Sunday, via […]
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APC Urges Buhari To Ignore Wike’s Probe Of Amaechi, Say Former Governor Is “Clean”
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has declared the immediate past governor of the State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, clean and untainted by corruption, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to disregard desperate efforts by Chief Nyesom Wike to tarnish Amaechi’s image. Rivers APC in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday and signed by its State Chairman, Dr. Davis Ibiamu Ikanya said, “We make bold to say that if there is any clean and spotless former governor in Nigeria, that person is Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, CON. Anybody who knows Amaechi well enough would readily testify that […]
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Amaechi’s Refusal To Appear Before Panel Is Admission Of Guilt – Rivers Government
The Rivers State Government has said the refusal by former Governor Chibuike Amaechi to appear before the judicial commission of inquiry set up by Governor Nyesom Wike to probe the sale of valued assets of the state and other matters was an admission of guilt. In a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the Special Adviser on Media to Wike, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, also said it was wrong for anybody to think that the Justice George Omereji Commission of Inquiry was set up to indict Amaechi. He said: “The Omereji’s panel was set up to probe expenditures made by Amaechi’s […]
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Former Governor Amaechi Says He’s Been Seen As A Criminal Because Of PDP
Rotimi Amaechi, the immediate-past governor of Rivers state, has filed a legal action against Felix Obuah, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Amaechi is asking the court to compel Obuah and the PDP to pay him N300 million as compensation for defaming his character. The former governor said based on allegations that he defrauded and embezzled $757 million in Rivers, some people now view him as “a common criminal”. “It would be recalled that in a press statement from the PDP, Rivers state chapter on August 6 and August 21, 2015, the party had alleged that […]
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PDP Describes Amaechi’s Litigation Threat As Diversionary
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says its attention has been drawn to a news report in a section of the media over threat by the former State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to have sued the Party, its State Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah and two others to court over allegations of corruption against him. Reacting to the news report, the State PDP described the litigation threat as diversionary in the light of shocking revelations, testimonies and discoveries of acts of lawlessness, fraudulent and injudicious spending of State resources by him while in office being witnessed before […]
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Fayose, Wike Plot Against Fayemi, Amaechi As Ministerial Nominees Embark On Fasting & Prayers
With less than 48 hours to the unveiling of the ministerial list by Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, some nominees have embarked on intensive prayer sessions ahead of their screening by the upper legislative chamber. The ministerial list will be read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday while the screening process is likely to commence the following day. Besides, senators have come under intense pressure as rumours of likely hurdles on the ways of some nominated persons became rife. Among those to face tough screening as well as resistance from senators from their states are former Rivers and […]
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“Rotimi Amaechi Looted N53bn From Rivers Govt”- Commission Of Inquiry Reveals
Rivers State Commission of Inquiry on the Sale of Valued Assets set up by Governor Nyesom Wike, yesterday, submitted its report, claiming that N53 billion belonging to the state was allegedly diverted by the previous administration. Head of the commission of inquiry, Justice George Omereji, while submitting the report, said the commission received 27 memos and 142 exhibits, while 25 witnesses testified before it. He called on the state government to act fast on the report, saying: “We hope that the government should act fast and by the time the government looks into this report and acts fast, it will […]
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