Amaechi Not Working For Atiku – APC Chieftain Denies Ex-Minister Behind Naira Scarcity

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described as untrue claims by the Rivers Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, working for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Naija News reported on Monday that the campaign council of the PDP in Rivers State alleged that the Amaechi is a member of the cabal enforcing fuel and naira scarcity in the country.

The Director of Publicity and Communications of the campaign council, Ogbonna Nwuke, charged Amaechi to deny that he is not part of the elements in the Aso Villa.

According to Nwuke, Amaechi is secretly working for the presidential candidate of the PDP.

He alleged that the former Governor of Rivers State recently reconciled with members of the PDP’s Presidential Campaign Council in the state.

Nwuke claimed that Amaechi had secretly met with Atiku and others in the cabal.

Reacting in a statement to Naija News on Wednesday, Eze described Amaechi as a principled Political Leader on whose integrity Nigeria prides.

He recalled that the former Minister, in 2014, backed President Muhammadu Buhari and played an instrumental role in his electoral victory in 2015 and 2019 as the Director-General of his campaign.

Eze described as vague the fictitious claim that Amaechi is part of the cabal allegedly responsible for the fuel and cash swap crisis and challenged Ogbonna to furnish Nigerians with detail of roles played by former Governor Amaechi.

He stated there is no validity in Ogbonna’s irresponsible assertion and his ill-propelled and “unfounded statement is only good to impress Governor Wike, who has instructed his likes to use the media to drag Amaechi into their morally irking, fruitless macabre and catastrophic political voyage.”

The APC chieftain said, “although every Nigerian reserve the right to association and the PDP presidential candidate is one man who has made adequate preparations and is stocked with the requisite experience and leadership expertise to take the country out of the woods, but Amaechi as a loyal party man has his integrity and public interest to protect and every actions and inactions he has taken are geared towards that direction and particularly guided by the love of country.”

He urged Ogbonna Nwuke to encourage Governor Nyesom Wike to drop the idea of attempting to run away from the country after the elections and prepare for life outside Brick House.

Eze expressed sympathy for Nwuke for “joining a wrecked ship that is headed nowhere and is sure to sink in a matter of days and wish him a speedy recovery from the deep injuries he will sustain from the impending wreckage.”