Where Is Rotimi Amaechi?
By Emmanuel Aziken The outing of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Rivers State earlier this week inadvertently gave a preview of how the politics in the All Progressives Congress, APC may play out after May 29. The visit was remarkable in several respects among which was the fact that Tinubu chose to visit a state that had traditionally been regarded as one of the most unflinching bedrocks of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Also remarkable was the fact that Rivers State is the political base of Rotimi Amaechi, the man who took second in the APC presidential primaries. Amaechi was, however, a distant second with 316 votes compared to the 1,271 votes obtained by Tinubu. Tinubu was ostensibly invited to Rivers State by Governor Nyesom Wike, the rebel PDP governor who did not hide his antagonism to his party’s presidential candidate and his overt bias to Tinubu in the presidential campaign. First, it has been erroneously circulated that Wike marshalled support f...