By Muhammed Shaeed
September 3rd, 2024
Rotimi Amaechi, the former Minister of Transportation, has dislodged a trending report on social media stating that he regretted joining the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, because of the way he has been treated by the party’s leadership.
A close ally and confidant of the former minister, Chief Eze Chuekwuemeka Eze, made this known while reacting to the statement on Monday.
Eze said that the former Governor of Rivers State does not entertain any regrets in building and nurturing the APC into a formidable political bloc.
Eze stated that, “as an outstanding stakeholder within the political family of the erstwhile governor of Rivers State and former Minister of Transportation, I read with great disdain, the fabricated falsehood that Amaechi regrets joining and expanding APC.
“Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have decided to join issues with undemocratic merchants on their ill-fated assumption concerning the political life of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
“Doing so definitely will amount to glorifying detractors, backstabbers, and habitual blackmailers, who are threatened by Amaechi’s silence in the affairs of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
However, as a progressive, humane and grassroots-oriented politician, and considering the fact that Amaechi is one of the key political gladiators that formed APC and eventually wrestled power from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I am constrained to set the records straight.
“Flowing from the above summation, I make bold to state that Amaechi’s silence in the affairs of our great party is purely a personal issue and based on self-convictions.
It has come to my knowledge of an orchestrated mischief and a deliberate but concerted effort aimed at maligning and placing Amaechi in public opprobrium.
“The said report ascribed to Amaechi, to say the least, is a handiwork of political charlatans and their sponsors who are hell-bent on destroying a hand that once fed them.
Amaechi is a complete party man, a strategist, a proactive and focused politician, who would not condescend so low to rant publicly on issues that would negate the growth and existence of APC and intra-party politics.”
Eze disclosed that he drew the attention of Amaechi to the false report, which he vehemently refuted claiming not to have ever encountered the said person.