With eyes on 2023 Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi has secured a deal said to be worth $50m – offered gratis by Chinese state contractors – for a University of Transport in Buhari's hometown of Daura...
Rotimi Amaechi Transport Minister and former governor of Rivers State: a shrewd politician who has worked his way up the ranks since the return civilian rule in 1999...
An arch-enemy of Tinubu El-Rufai is part of a rival camp in the ruling APC which includes Rotimi Amaechi Transport Minister and former governor of Rivers State...
Federal transport minister Rotimi Amaechi another foe of Oshiomhole claimed that the deal was riddled with fraud...
Party sources say among those pulling the strings of the undeclared but ill-disguised campaign for a more favourable APC chairman was Transport Minister and former Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi who also has ambitions on the Presidency and is close to influential Kaduna Governor Nasir el Rufai (AC Vol 61 No 13 Back to the scene of the crime)...
That is pitting a faction led by former governor of Rivers state Rotimi Amaechi and sitting governor of Kaduna Nasir el Rufai against the national leader of the APC Bola Tinubu a former governor of Lagos and Adams Oshiomhole a former governor of Edo whose abrasive style has led to his suspension as national chairman of the APC...
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The economy ministers: Zainab Ahmed (Finance); Timipre Sylva (Petroleum Minister of State); Minister Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo (Trade and Investment); Chris Ngige (Labour); Olamilekan Adegbite (Mines); Mohammed Nanono (Agriculture); Rotimi Amaechi (Transport); and Sale Mamman (Power)...
At least three of the ministers from the region – Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi deputy Oil Minister Timipre Sylva and Niger Delta Minister Godswill Akpabio – are fiercely partisan figures pushing the ruling party's interests there...
One of the ruling All Progressives' Congress's top financiers and political godfathers – former governor of Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi – is set to retain his transport portfolio or be given another that involves hefty contracts (AC Vol 60 No 6 Election credibility on trial)...
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However his arch-rival Rotimi Amaechi Buhari's Minister of Transport threw his weight behind the Action Alliance Congress (AAC)...
The APC is appealing to the Supreme Court in both cases but whatever the decision its presidential campaigning has lost momentum in both Rivers the home state of its election chief and Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi and Zamfara which was a party stronghold...
