Amaechi’s Ally Dumps APC For Wike’s PDP

Ibim Semenitari, a former Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications and close ally to the immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Naija News recalls that Semenitari, a former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), had resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in July this year, but did not disclose her next political destination.

The former commissioner had on July 10, 2022, dumped the APC after transmitting a formal letter to the APC Chairman in Ward 5, Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Although she did not state her reason for leaving the party, it was gathered that her exit may have been connected to the leadership crisis rocking the party, culminating in a gale of resignations and defections from the state APC led by Amaechi.

The former NDDC Boss was on Saturday received back to the ruling party in the Okrika Local Government Area of the state by the executive chairman of the council, Akuro Tobin, a former Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, and other chieftains of the party.

Semenitari, an ace journalist and CNN award winner, was in the kitchen cabinet in the administration of Amaechi as Governor of the crude oil and gas-rich state.