Show of power earlier today as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his predecessor and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, squared up against each other at the Mile 1, Diobu Police Station, Port Harcourt ,over a collation officer who was allegedly abducted by the minister yesterday. The collation officer, Ekwi Adebisa, who was in charge of Port Harcourt Ward 10, was allegedly abducted by Amaechi and his security team and taken to Novotel Hotel where the former governor was staying. Wike’s media assistant, Simeon Nwakaudu, alleged that Amaechi retrieved election materials from the collation officer and put her in protective […]
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Show of Power In Rivers State As Amaechi, Wike Clash Over ‘Abducted’ Collation Officer
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Senate Asks Amaechi To Resign Over The Lagos-Calabar Budget Controversy
The Nigerian Senate has asked the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, to resign his appointment as Minister or apologize to the Senate and Nigerians over the Lagos-Calabar rail project that has generated a lot controversies in the last 48 hours. Members of the National Assembly and the presidency have been at loggerheads after media reports alleged that the National Assembly members had removed the Lagos-Calabar rail project from the budget presented to it by President Buhari. The reports alleged that the National Assembly members diverted the money meant for the said project to the Lagos-Kano project, favoring the Northern region. […]
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PDP Wants Rotimi Amaechi To Inspect Road Projects Completed By Wike
The Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Felix Obuah, has challenged the Minister of Transport and former state governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to undertake a facility tour of the numerous road projects completed and commissioned by PDP administration in Rivers state led by Governor Nyesom Wike. The State PDP Chairman, who stated this while taking inventory of the achievements of Governor Wike’s one year after being voted into office in April 2015, said these impressive achievements have demonstrated that the present administration in the state is fully committed to making life better for the people. He said […]
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Amaechi Issues Statement Explaining Why He Leaked Sanusi’s Letter Meant For Ex-President Jonathan To The Public
The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has on Thursday disclosed his involvement in the ’leaked’ secret letter written by former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad 11 to then President Goodluck Jonathan on the non-remittance of $49.8 billion from oil sale to the federation account. Recall that Sanusi had earlier reveled an interview with Forbes Africa Magazine, that Amaechi was responsible for leaking to Obasanjo a letter he wrote to Jonathan on the “missing” $49.8 billion oil revenues. Amaechi who reacted in a statement signed by his media […]
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British Newspaper Say Amaechi Stole £500million; Paid Media Consultants And Private Jets For Buhari’s Campaign
In light of the “Fantastically corrupt” remarks by David Cameron, British Prime Minister, DailyMail is doing a little digging into what seem to be Nigeria’s President Corrupt Cabinet Member. It said, Muhammadu Buhari seen by some as leading the battle against corruption but worrying allegations swirl around one of Nigerian leader’s close allies and that is Rotimi Amaechi accused of misappropriating £338m commission probing sale of state assets.. The paper also accused Amaechi of diverting £140m of state funds into Buhari’s presidential campaign.. Read the complete report below.. When David Cameron was caught on camera last week before an anti-corruption summit describing […]
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Bayo Oluwasanmi: Stone Your Feudal Governors
By Bayo Oluwasanmi “You have stoned nobody, that is why we are stealing…” – Rotimi Amaechi Recently, the story of a victim of hunger graced the pages of SaharaReporters. Nasiru Lukman, a teacher at Saint Luke’s Grammar School, Molete, Ibadan, Oyo State, slumped while teaching in the classroom. The Vice-Principal of the same school, Emmanuel Olajide reportedly died as a result of hunger “apparently due to non-payment of four months salary by the state government.” The 37-year old teacher of Accounting bled profusely as a result of injury sustained on his head. He was rushed to Molete Health Center for treatment. […]
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“There Is No Money To Run Government”– Rotimi Amaechi Says APC Never Anticipated A Terrible Economy
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to be patient and give the administration more time to achieve its objectives. Making the appeal while answering questions at the forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Amaechi said: “We encountered challenges; were we expecting to encounter those challenges? yes; did we think that we will meet the quantum or volume of those challenges? “We didn’t anticipate that things were this bad. We thought you go to government and there would be money for you to run government and others. “Now you have the situation […]
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Pius Adesanmi: On Rotimi Amaechi Recent Plea To Nigerians
By Pius Adesanmi “Rotimi Amaechi Begs Nigerians to be Patient” – Premium Times Unlike some of the arrogant spokespersons of the administration who talk at the people instead of talking to them, Amaechi’s recent plea is actually humble and persuasive. He retails the usual yarns about the rot they “met on the ground” which was in fact “worse than we had anticipated”. I gave my prescient response to this line of argument on May 29, 2015, when I delivered the inauguration lecture of my friend, Nasir El Rufai, in Kaduna. I told Nasir (and sent him to his Oga in […]
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Is There Bad Blood Between Minister of State Aviation, Hadi Sirika And Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi?
The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, on Thursday debunked insinuations in the social media of a rift between him and the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi. Sirika made the clarification when he hosted members of the Abuja Transport/Aviation Correspondents (ATACA) in Abuja. “Just recently, the social media wrote that I and the Minister of Transportation, who are friends, and whom I have known for many years, are quarrelling. “That the government of Buhari is about to come down because Amaechi and I are quarrelling; this is really absurd and I don’t think this is the way […]
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APC Defends Former Governor Says Corruption Allegations Against Amaechi “A Personal Vendetta”
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday, frowned at the Press Release by the Rivers State Information and Communications Commissioner, Dr. Austin Tam-George, linking the name of Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to the unfortunate comments by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron that Nigeria is fantastically corrupt, describing it as “nothing more than a worthless piece of mischief by someone who continues to demonstrate that he is still very bitter that the former governor of Rivers State once did not oblige him a favour, adding that it would be an item for […]
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Ex-President Jonathan Failed Ogoni People Says Traditional Ruler
The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, who also spoke at the clean up ceremony, seized the opportunity to tell how former president Godluck Jonathan refused to clean up Ogoniland. “We did everything possible as a sitting government to get our brother and our leader, the former president, to implement the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) report,” said Mr. Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers and an arch political rival of Mr. Wike and Mr. Jonathan. “We did everything necessary, including going to church to pray. The UNEP report was not implemented.” Mr. Amaechi said it took only an unscheduled meeting […]
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“When They Were Not Here, Were We Not Flying?”– Amaechi Reaction To Airlines Leaving Nigeria
Foreign airlines are having a difficult time operating in Nigeria and some were recently reported to have ended their operations in Nigeria. The reason for this is attributed to the inability of foreign carriers to repatriate their revenues to their home countries. This is as a result of the federal government’s foreign exchange policy that has placed a limit on the amount of money that can be repatriated abroad. The federal government came up with this policy in response to the global decline in oil prices – which has severely affected the oil-dependent Nigerian economy. Funds of foreign airlines stuck […]
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South-South Cannot Continue To Intimidate The Rest of Nigeria, Says Rotimi Amaechi
Rotimi Amaechi, minister for transportation, says the south-south region of Nigeria cannot intimidate the rest of the country. Speaking at a town hall meeting held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, on Monday, Amaechi said the south-south is not a country on its own but a subset of Nigeria, which could not be doing the same thing and expecting a different result. “It is part of a nation called Nigeria. You cannot continue to shoot against yourselves and think you will survive,” he said. “You cannot continue to do the things you are doing and expect a different result. You cannot […]
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Petroleum Minister Says He Will Oppose Amaechi On Maritime University – “Watch Buhari’s Ministers Attack Themselves”
Minister of Petroleum Resources has assured the people of the Niger-Delta that he will fight against the relocation of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State. Kachikwu made this known in Uyo, Akwa- Ibom State on Monday during a town hall meeting organised by the Federal Government to sensitise the people on policies of the government in the last one year. Kachikwu who was responding to a question on its relocation order promised to oppose the position of the Minister of Transport and former governor of Rivers State who gave order. He said: “As far as it is about development in […]
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“Kachikwu Is A Worthy Son of The Niger Delta Region”– Ijaw Youths Council Blast Amaechi Over Comments On Maritime University
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has berated the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, over comments credited to him concerning the establishment of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta state. Ameachi, at the Federal Government Town-Hall meeting at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Monday, had allegedly stated that N19bn was used to acquire empty land for the establishment of the University, as he opposed the current moves by the Federal Government to negotiate with stakeholders over rampaging militants in the Niger Delta region. In its reaction on Tuesday, IYC in a statement by its spokesman, Eric Omare said that Amaechi’s […]
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DSS Holds Meeting With Wike And Amaechi Ahead of Elections
Determined to guarantee a violent-free and credible re-run senatorial/House of Representative elections in Rivers State, a crucial meeting to chart the path to peace in the state before, during and after the re-run elections was held, yesterday, between the Inspector-General of Police, Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Director-General of Department of State Services, DSS, Alhaji. Musa Daura. The two major players in the politics of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi were in attendance. The meeting deliberated on the overall need to have peaceful, free […]
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Rotimi Amaechi Wants Looters Of Public Treasury Be Named And Shamed
The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that he believes in a transparent government where the identities of looters are revealed, stressing that such system would prevent corrupt persons from contesting elections in future. Speaking in Abuja during a stakeholders meeting on the London summit on anti-corruption and the Open Government Partnership, OGP, the former Rivers governor challenged Nigerians to hold government accountable by asking relevant questions and demanding satisfactory answers. “I believe in name and shame and an open government. What name and shame does is to prevent such people for vying for public office,” he said, noting […]
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Buhari’s Ministers Are Squatting In Abuja, Says Rotimi Amaechi
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says some ministers are currently squatting in Abuja, adding that they are living like most Nigerians. Speaking to Osasu Igbinedion, on The Osasu Show, Amaechi, who recently launched the Abuja-Kaduna railway line alongside President Muhammadu Buhari, said the rail line would make housing cheaper in Abuja. “Listen to me; do you know that ministers, as we are talking now, some of them are squatting? We are living in conditions equal to that of most Nigerians,” he said. The minister said Nigerians can now live in Kaduna and work in Abuja, while paying less for accommodation […]
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Justifying Buhari’s Poor Handling of the Economy, Amaechi Says There Was Recession Under Jonathan But Was Covered Up
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, has alleged that Nigeria went into recession under former President Goodluck Jonathan but that the government only covered it up by saying it was cash-strapped. The minister, who spoke on The Osasu Show, said Okonjo-Iweala begged him to stop saying Nigeria was broke at the time. Amaechi, who was then the chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), said the economy went into a recession due to excessive borrowing. When asked about the recession of the Nigerian economy, Amaechi said: “People just pick up words without knowing what words mean. Even under Goodluck we went into […]
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Rotimi Amaechi Says Leaders Must Take Responsibility When Economic Crime Or Corruption Happens
Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said economic crime can better be tackled if countries partner each other and share strategic information to stop the network of those who commit such crimes. Amaechi made the statement Monday while delivering a keynote speech at the opening of the 34th Cambridge University prestigious International Symposium on Economic Crime, at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. The Rt. Hon. Jeremy Wright, the Attorney-General of England and Wales and Advocate General of Northern Ireland also spoke on the first day of the week-long symposium. In his address titled: “Beyond Blame Game: […]
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