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...
This would give them a second chance to oust Wike and install Cole – the former CEO of Sahara Energy Group and ally of transport minister and former governor Rotimi Amaechi – through the courts...
His energetic campaign manager Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi concedes it will be a much tougher election than in 2015...
APC minister and former Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi and former Akwa Ibom PDP governor and now APC Senator Godswill Akpabio are working hard to flip their states to the APC for the governorship races...
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Neighbouring Ogoni became another flashpoint in 2015 as Rotimi Amaechi the past Rivers State Governor and former PDP member who is now Transport Minister in President Buhari's cabinet bussed his All Progressives' Congress supporters into the area to draw the PDP into a confrontation...
Of the old nPDP group known as the G7 only Rotimi Amaechi the Transport Minister and former Governor of Rivers State is part of the inner circle...
The six were joined by powerful defectors from the PDP including Bukola Saraki from the Middle Belt now the Senate President and Rotimi Amaechi now Transport Minister and former Governor of Rivers State in the Niger Delta...