Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi says his support for a riverine gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election would not stop anyone from the Upland from contesting.
The Minister stated this while receiving two former Commissioners in Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration, Dr Reason Onya and Charles Nwaogu.
The former Rivers governor explained that if the political spindle spun in favour of the Upland at the end of the day, he would as the leader of the party in the State support the winner.
The ministers’s seeming turn around followed several fierce reactions which followed his earlier statement suggesting his zoning of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ticket to the riverine region of the state.
Amaechi’s clarification is coming weeks after Senator Magnus Abe, the immediate past senator representing Rivers South-East senatorial district in the national assembly alleged that Amaechi was planning to impose a candidate on Rivers people.
Amaechi who is also the leader of the APC in the South-South explained that his preference for a Riverine candidate can not in any way amount to the imposition of a candidate.
He encouraged those in the Upland with an intent to contest the governorship to do so in defence of their individual rights, saying the party would organize free and fair primaries in order to determine in which direction power would swing.
