Yet Amaechi's appointment – depending on the powers of the ministry he is given – may prompt fresh tensions in oil-producing Rivers State where his arch-rival Ezenwo Nyesom Wike engineered a victory in the recent elections which is now being tested in the courts...
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It suspended Amaechi from the PDP and then with the help of Chief Ezenwo Nyesom Wike Education Minister and a close friend of the First Lady Patience Faka Jonathan fomented a political crisis in the state which ended with the closure of the State Assembly and severe restrictions on state budget allocations...
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