Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says if the All Progressives Congress (APC) loses the 2019 election, Nigeria will be taken 10 steps backwards. The minister said this while speaking with select journalists in Abuja on Thursday. Amaechi said the APC government needs another four years to surmount the challenges it met in office. While admitting that the Buhari administration has made mistakes, he [...]
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Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says he could have been killed during the fight to install President Muhammadu Buhari. Amaechi, who was director-general of the campaign team of Buhari, de-marketed former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was a threat to the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He attacked Jonathan in public and private and as the election drew near, there were [...]
Judith Amaechi, wife of Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says her life was in danger before the supreme court pronounced her husband governor. Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo denied Amaechi from contesting the 2007 governorship election after a "K-leg theory" was propounded. The party then gave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to Celestine Omehia who eventually won the election but was later sacked [...]
The federal high court, Lagos, says the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) is right to institute a suit seeking to stop former governors who are serving as senators and ministers from receiving "double pay and life pensions". In a ruling on Friday, Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, the judge handling the case, gave leave to SERAP to compel Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation [...]
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says that the electoral prospects of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has brightened owing to the "remarkable performance of his administration". Speaking during a radio interview in the state capital, Wike said the programmes rolled out by his administration have made the PDP popular among the electorate. "If elections are held 100 times [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, unforeseen challenges are affecting the construction of a standard gauge railway line between Lagos and Ibadan. The $1.5 billion project was scheduled to be completed in December 2018. The minister said China Civil Engineering and Construction Company, the project contractor, has had to contend with a number of obstructions on the rail line’s right of way such [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, is playing “witchcraft" politics in the state. Amaechi said this on Monday in reaction to the killings in parts of Rivers. Thirty persons were reportedly killed in two separate attacks in the state, including in Omoku community. In an address to Rivers citizens, Amaechi accused the governor of “failing” in his [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, to resign immediately. In a statement on Thursday, the party said Amaechi's reported appointment as the director-general of President Muhammadu Buhari's presidential campaign team is unconstitutional. Reports had emerged that Buhari has asked the minister to lead his re-election campaign team. The PDP said Amaechi cannot take up the offer while still [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, as the director-general of his election campaign, THISDAY is reporting. Amaechi was the director-general of Buhari’s campaign in 2015. Although Buhari has not made his reelection bid public, there are indications that the president seeks to remain in office till 2023. Many groups and top politicians have endorsed Buhari but the president has [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says the price of the rail tickets from Abuja to Kaduna is cheap, hence a need to increase it. The minister made this comment on Tuesday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. At present, the executive class ticket is sold at N1,500 while the standard class goes for N1,050. The minister also said the president would soon inaugurate [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has just one agenda which is “Amaechi”. The minister, who governed Rivers between 2007 and 2015, said this when he featured on Question Time, a programme on Channels Television. “The governor has just one agenda – if he is in his toilet, ‘Amaechi’; if he is outside his toilet, ‘Amaechi’,” [...]
Reno Omokri, ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan on new media, says Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, is ignorant. Omokri said this in reaction to Amaechi's statement that former President Olusegun Obasanjo left $65 billion in the excess crude account (ECA) but it was frittered away under Jonathan's watch. TheCable fact-checked Amaechi's claim. In a statement on Wednesday, Omokri said when Amaechi was [...]
On Saturday, Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, said former President Goodluck Jonathan could not account for the $65 billion left in the excess crude account account by President Olusegun Obasanjo. "When Obasanjo was leaving, he left about 65 billion dollars in the excess crude account, but this money was frittered away and we wonder where the money is," he said. "As at then, [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, has fired yet another shot at former President Goodluck Jonathan. This comes less than a week after the minister said the time to stop blaming Jonathan had come. Speaking with NAN in Lagos, Amaechi said former President Olusegun Obasanjo left $65 billion in the excess crude account but it was frittered away. WHAT IS EXCESS CRUDE ACCOUNT? It [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says after praying and fasting for three months, God used a friend to help him raise N200 million needed for his personal expenditure and litigation fees to reclaim his mandate in the 2007 election. Although Amaechi won the primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it was Celestine Omehia, his cousin, who represented PDP in [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says he agrees with those saying the current administration should stop criticising ex-president Goodluck Jonathan's government. Amaechi said it is time for the present government "to do our own" and "leverage on what we know". The minister said this on Wednesday when he received the report of the inter-ministerial committee for the finalisation of the Draft National [...]
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