Browsing: Rotimi Amaechi

Obinna’s father, Prince Emma Anyanwu, a chieftain of the PDP, had called on Amaechi to resign following the political crisis in Rivers State

That Amaechi is waging a political war at the national level against the Presidency, that was alleged in some quarters to be the brain behind the conception and birth of the “Emergency” Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum that enthroned Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State as its Czar, with the ultimate aim of wresting the control or headship of the inclusive Nigerian Governors’ Forum from Governor Amaechi, is no longer news to many who have been following closely the tense political wave in Rivers State and, by extension, Nigeria, with particular reference to the Presidency

They were playing opposition among themselves with one faction rising
against the other, as Nigerians had seen in the judiciary-imposed
Felix Obuah-led faction of the PDP in Rivers State which suspended on
Monday April 29, 27 members of the state’s House of Assembly elected
on the podium of the party, and gave Governor Chibuike Amaechi 48
hours to explain why a jet belonging to the Rivers State Government was purportedly bearing the name of a US bank in its registration credentials