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...
Locally the polls pitted two of the State's strongmen against each other – Rotimi Amaechi and Ezenwo Nyesom Wike...
As for the maritime university that Nimasa had planned for the Gbaramatu Kingdom in July former Rivers State Governor and now Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi poured cold water on its likely construction...
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Although former Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi accused him of systematic vote-rigging and criminal violence the High Court upheld Wike's 2015 victory...
Rivers' former Governor Rotimi Amaechi who triggered a national political realignment when he walked out of the PDP in 2013 is now Transport Minister and a senior member of the APC...
