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I Can’t Bring Myself Low To Wike’s Level, Amaechi Fires Back

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Mar 11, 2021.

Lere Owolewa

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, have renewed their hostility.
EKO HOT BLOG had earlier reported how Wike fired the first salvo on Wednesday. He had said the infrastructural development being carried out by Amaechi’s ministry has political undertone.

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, have renewed their hostility.

Since 2014, the duo have been involved in heated exchanges and once clashed inside a police station in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

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Minister of Transportation,Rotimi Amaechi

EKO HOT BLOG had earlier reported how Wike fired the first salvo on Wednesday. He had said the infrastructural development being carried out by Amaechi’s ministry has political undertone.

The Rivers governor said the current administration is developing the Eastern railway line because of the 2023 elections.

Governor Nyesom Wike

In what could be described as a veiled attack on Wike, Amaechi had said he does not take alcohol before talking.

When he featured on an ARISE Television programme on Thursday morning, Amaechi was asked to respond to Wike’s allegations but he said: “I don’t think I want to address the issue of the governor, I have made my point, I have moved on. He was my staff, I can’t bring myself low. I was a governor, I was also a speaker, I’m a minister. I was two-term chairman of governors’ forum. The same when I was a speaker. Why should I be discussing about him?”

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Amaechi governed Rivers between 2007 and 2015 and Wike was one of his allies.

Wike had served as Amaechi’s chief of staff before he got appointed a minister of state for education.

He fell out with Amaechi in the buildup to the 2015 election.