More light has been shed on why a former ally of Goodluck Jonathan, Rotimi Amaechi, worked against the former president.
Goodluck Jonathan and Rotimi Amaechi
In an interview published in the current issue of The Interview magazine, the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Company (NDDC) and former Rivers State Commissoner for Information, Mrs Ibim Semenitari, has disclosed that Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, turned against former President Goodluck Jonathan to 'save Nigeria from the brink.'
Mrs. Semenitari who revealed that Amaechi believed that Nigeria needed a different person as president to save the country, said; "Amaechi believed that Muhammadu had all it took to change the trajectory and envisioned that Nigeria was heading in a different direction.
"For him (Amaechi) having Buhari there was great for the integrity of the country and also to pull back the country from the brink."
Recall that Amaechi, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and chairman of the Governor’s Forum, was one of the governors who broke away from PDP, leading a charge that proved fatal to Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election which saw him lose to Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.
Mrs. Semenitari said that "Amaechi had no thought of any personal reward for doing what he did", when asked whether her own position and the double ministry assigned to Amaechi by President Buhari were rewards for Amaechi’s electoral contribution.