APC Hails Amaechi Star Performance

The party went further to state in an online statement that it looks forward to his confirmation in the days ahead and have “no doubts at all in their mind that he will make an excellent Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Rivers APC said a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and issued in the state capital, Port Harcourt.



APC added: “Today, October, 22, 2015, will remain evergreen in the history of democracy in our dear country and particularly to Rivers state and her people because it is a day on which the efforts Chief Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers state to deny Rivers State a slot in the Federal Executive Council fell like a pack of cards.”

The party said that it remains indebted to the Senate for refusing to be intimidated by Wike and his  politicians.

“We also wish to convey our gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari for sticking with Amaechi, having seen his sterling qualities and the hollowness of the allegations against him by Wike and his co-conspirators.”

Rivers APC drew a parallel between the Amaechi-Wike drama and the account in the Bible book of Esther Chapter Seven.

According to the party, “In this great book, Haman (Wike) conspired not only against Mordecai (Amaechi) but the entire Jewish people (Rivers state) because of his greed and hatred for a man who saved the King (for installing President Buhari) whom he never wanted the King (Buhari) to appreciate. He Harman (Wike) told a lot of lies through NTA and AIT in order to hang Mordecai (Amaechi) through the illegal judicial panel he set up to try Amaechi but he Haman ended up in the gallows he prepared for Mordecai.

“In Wike’s case, he will eventually end up in the EFCC’s net after failing woefully to defend his corrupt practices when he held sway as Minister of Education under the discredited Goodluck Jonathan administration.”

Rotimi Amaechi’s nomination as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was approved after being screened by the Nigerian Senate.