The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed confidence that 99 percent of delegates from Rivers State would vote for him at the All Progressives Congress presidential primary.<\/p>\n
He stated this on Friday in Port Harcourt while addressing party faithful during a consultation tour of Rivers State.<\/span><\/p>\n According to him,\u201dNinety-nine per cent of Rivers delegates will vote for me at the primary. Those who are qualified to vote as Rivers delegates will vote for me. It is not about voting for me because I am your son, but voting for me because what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd because of the experience I am bringing to the table. Of all the aspirants, I am the youngest and the most experienced. I was a speaker for eight years, governor for eight years and I have done seven years as the minister of transport.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI am the only aspirant on the stage that has governed a state where there was insecurity. When I came, they kidnapped Prof. Nimi Briggs (former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt); they kidnapped Mrs. Lulu-Briggs (wife of the late oil mogul, O. B. Lulu-Briggs).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThose were the baptisms of fire that I faced in the first few weeks after I came into office. After that came the story of how they were kidnapping two-month-old babies. But we faced those challenges together and we overcame those challenges to free Rivers State. I don\u2019t know what the situation is now. I don\u2019t live here. I live in Abuja.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He disclosed further that about 70 percent of politicians in the state passed through him, hence he could decipher who had the capacity to lead the state, and who would not be loyal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThose of you who are crying now in Rivers State, I warned all of you but you didn\u2019t listen. 60 to 70 percent of Rivers State politicians passed through me, so I know the character of everybody. I know who is capable of being a governor and who has no capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI know what loyalty is, and I am a very loyal person. Those who are not loyal, I wish them well. I am loyal to the President and I am loyal to the party. If the party says it\u2019s me, thank God. But if the party says it\u2019s not me, whoever the party chooses, I will support.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf the President or the party chooses someone else, I\u2019ll support the person; and if they choose me, I\u2019ll be glad and come back here to worship God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed confidence that 99 percent of delegates from Rivers State would vote for him at the All Progressives Congress presidential primary. He stated this on Friday in Port Harcourt while addressing party faithful during a consultation tour of Rivers State. According to him,\u201dNinety-nine per cent of Rivers delegates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3867,4594,4055],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc-primary","tag-delegates-vote","tag-rotimi-amaechi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}