This sets up a clash with some of the leading barons in the party who are backing ex-governor of Lagos and consummate political deal-maker Bola Ahmed Tinubu Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi and those some of whom are close to Buhari who are backing an unorthodox campaign by central bank governor Godwin Emefiele for the party nomination...
Here Osinbajo might benefit from the weaknesses of his main rivals: Bola Tinubu Rotimi Amaechi and Godwin Emefiele...
A wild-card candidate that the party caucus and the president may consider is Rotimi Amaechi the canny minister of transport and former governor of Rivers State...
On the China front amid controversy over President Buhari's April 2021 reversal of the Department of Petroleum Resources' confiscation of oil licences held by a Sinopec subsidiary Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi suggests that loans for two major infrastructure projects could instead come from non-Chinese sources...
Another beneficiary may prove to be former Rivers governor and serving Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi who has a difficult relationship with Wike but was no fan of Oshiomhole or Tinubu...
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)...