Plans to stop outgoing Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi from getting reappointed as a Federal Minister has been uncovered by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and a former Spokesperson of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP.
The controversial politician accused the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, of setting aside a whopping sum of N100 billion for a media campaign against the Minister and former governor of Rivers State.
In a statement to Daily Post on Thursday, Eze also
alleged that Governor Wike was recruiting a former Minister of Aviation,
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno
Omokri, spokesperson for the Coalition of United Political Parties,
CUPP, Imo Ikenga, among others, to lead the media campaign.
Eze said impeccable sources, who are well informed of the plot, said
the governor had already assembled the team of sworn anti-Amaechi in the
PDP and other opposition elements, including Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, the
National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party ZLP, to be supported by Barr
Emma Okah, the Rivers state Commissioner for Information, with Senator
Magnus Abe as coordinator of the project.
Eze added that the primary target of the sponsors of the project,
represented by the Rivers state governor, is to smear the image of the
minister. According to him, insiders in the Wike administration in Port
Harcourt had been boasting of late that the onslaught against Amaechi
this time around would be targeted at damaging his public image, using
the media at all levels as well as on multiple platforms.
The end result, he claimed, is to make the minister not attractive
for a reappointment in President Buhari’s next cabinet, adding that a
mobilisation of N20 billion had already been disbursed to the assembled
team.
Eze added, “A whopping sum of N100billion has been set aside for this
task aimed at defaming, smearing, disparaging, blackmailing and
frustrating Amaechi’s re-nomination into President Buhari’s new cabinet.
Available facts indicate that the sum of N20Billion has already be
released to the committee comprising of some states and national
commentators, while further disbursement will be done as the committee
progresses in its deadly task.
“Some of the key Committee members so far recruited are Chief Dan
Nwanyanwu the National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party, Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode former Aviation Minister, Barr Reno Omokri, a former
presidential spokesman to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Barr Imo
Ikenga the CUPP Spokesperson to be supported by Barr Emma Okah the
Rivers State Commissioner for Information who is to as the Committee’s
Secretary/Resource Person and source provider of most of the dirty
documents with Senator Magnus Abe coordinating the multi-Billion Naira
venture.
“According to the charge to the committee, the committee should use
every media platform to make the 2015 plot against Amaechi a child’s
play, especially as Wike plans on using some of Amaechi’s former cabinet
members to tell false, concocted and distorted stories to the media and
impugn the minister’s unblemished integrity and paint a very terrible
image of him to members of the public.
“The committee is charged to recruit other Nigerians and foreigners
alike to jointly and collaboratively carry out this hatchet job of ‘hack
Amaechi down’ campaign. The plan is to throw as much dirt at him as
possible and rubbish his image that the 2015 campaign against him will
become a child’s play.
“Most of the committee members are currently in Rivers state and are
being coached on what to say to the press and how to say it, to do
maximum damage while others are busy distorting, concocting and
fabricating fake screenshots, text messages, documents and all sorts in
Senator Abe’s Freedom House campaign office in Port Harcourt; that they
intend to release to the media to tarnish the image of the minister.
Pages of some key National Dailies are already booked in advance and
most Network Televisions and their anchormen contacted for this deadly
task.
“Today, even not waiting to be formally commissioned, across media
platforms subtle campaigns were already ongoing to sway public
perception against the former Rivers State Governor. Recently both Amadi
Dike, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sotonye
Ijuye-Dagogo and Sunny Oburu PDP apologists in their various recent
reports have castigated Amaechi with unkind words pleading with
President Buhari not to reappoint Amaechi into his cabinet.
“In carrying out this deadly act against an innocent man, whose only
crime was that he supervised the election and reelection of President
Muhammadu Buhari both in 2015 and 2019, Senator Abe is busy on daily
basis jumping from one TV station to the other, discussing Amaechi while
Chief Dan Nwanyanwu is trying to outshine other committee members and
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is busy writing worthless and inciting letters
and articles aimed at achieving the aim of the Amaechi-must-be-destroyed
committee.”
However, Eze noted that the plot and its execution had failed right
from the moment it was conceived because most Nigerians have come to
understand that Amaechi, being one of the most critical factors to the
ouster of the PDP from its merciless milking of the nation’s resources,
will continue to be a target of attack from the reactionary elements
that represent the former ruling.
Eze pointedly stated that no matter the efforts of both Wike and Abe
that their very best, can never equal, not to talk about surpassing
Amaechi’s sterling, innovative, radical, trend-setting and absolutely
revolutionary records as a world acknowledged leader of our time. Take
it or leave it, Amaechi remains a hero of global reckoning.
All these plots notwithstanding, the fact remains that Amaechi have
proven himself as a unique leader in Nigeria and no amount of evil
machinations will deter his reappointment if merit is the yardstick for
appointment.
He added, “He is a shining star who has brought his wealth of
experience to bear in transforming the rail transport sector and the
President is happy with him. The fact remains Amaechi) has made us from
the South-South proud, very proud, by his exceptional performance.”
Eze said that he is “consoled by the fact that Buhari doesn’t listen to those nasty smears and blackmail.
“Wike and Abe are not God Let them gather together and plot evil
against Amaechi with trillions of Naira, they shall continue to fall as
they have always been. The Bible says the Egyptians you see here today,
in a moment you will find them no more. The battle is the Lord’s and he
needs no assistance from anybody. They failed in 2015 and surely they
will fail in 2019.”
Eze, however, added that “those who are true adherents of the
politics of Rt. Hon. Amaechi would not be distracted by any campaign of
calumny against the man,” adding “we are sure that President Buhari will
also not be distracted by these misguided persons, whose hatred for his
person is being transferred on Amaechi.”
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