Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi

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...

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...

• Transport: Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi; the Rivers State ex-Governor takes this big spending ministry at the centre of the government's infrastructure development plans (AC Vol 54 No 16 Amaechi takes on Jonathan)...

Two very different figures militant leader Tompolo and former Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi are likely to play a critical role in the new order...

Heading the political side of the list is a strong triumvirate of younger ex-governors: Fashola (Lagos) Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Fayemi (Ekiti) who all made big contributions to Buhari's APC election victory as directors of Fund-raising Campaigning and Policy and Strategy respectively are at its core...