A report by the Vanguard newspaper has indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari will back a dark horse in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary election ahead of the 2023 general elections. According to the report, the emergence of Senator Abdullahi Adamu may swing the pendulum in favor of the minister of transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Hate him or like him. Rotimi Amaechi is one of the best governors in Rivers state. One of the best cabinet ministers ever produced in the history of this country and the best no doubt among the Buhari minister. He is the most hardworking among all of them. Even Buhari is shocked by the way Amaechi has handled the ministry of transport. Amaechi has done excellently well in the rail sector and it will take a hardworking fellow to achieve what he has achieved. Let’s not pretend that we are not seeing his achievements in rail Infrastructure. He has connected Nigeria by rail.
In the build-up to cabinet selection in 2015, the majority of Nigerians believed the president would hand Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi the SGF office as compensation for his contributions in that electioneering process. But the President saw Amaechi differently. In hindsight, he immediately identified his doggedness and charisma as the ones needed to bring to reality, his railway revitalization agenda.
The President needed only one thing to validate his wish: for Amaechi to prove to him that he could bring something that seemed impossible into reality. Today, Nigeria’s rail system is one the best in terms of functionality and comfort in Africa because Amaechi touched it. By this, we can say the President, having considered the role Amaechi played in decimating GEJ and PDP, and now the sterling performance he puts in the administration is ready to bequeath power to Amaechi as he is the competent and efficient candidate Buhari postulated about in o
