2027: Amaechi, David Mark, Have No Political Clout  To Deliver  Rivers, Benue — Wike 

Olumuyiwa Olumuyiwa

Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),  has said former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has been experiencing a decline in electoral value over the years adding that as things stand the former speakers of Rivers House of Assembly can’t deliver the state to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2027 elections.

Wike noted that the dwindling influence of Amaechi is evident in his consistent failure to secure victory in the oil-rich state for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015 and 2019 despite having the backing of the federal government.

The former Rivers governor spoke in an interview with journalists on Friday.

Wike stressed that Amaechi’s position at the Federal level has never translated to block votes from Rivers State mentioning when the former minister was director-general of the presidential campaign of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC.

He added that nothing proved Amaechi’s loss of political clout and a gradual recession to oblivion more than his woeful performances at the poll despite deploying every power at his disposal to stop him from getting reelected as the governor of Rivers State.

“Are we saying today, if an election is conducted in Rivers state today, that Rotimi Amaechi will deliver Rivers state to ADC?” Wike asked.

“Remember, he was a governor. When I came to run as governor, he was in the APC. Who defeated him? And he was the DG of the campaign then.

“Remember, in 2019, when I was running for my second term, he was the minister of transportation and was the DG of Buhari’s campaign.

“Of all the federal might that came, I won. The late President Buhari never got 25 percent. In 2015, he didn’t get it. In 2019, he didn’t get it. How do you now say that he will win?”

The FCT minister also took a swipe at the former Senate President who is currently the National Chairman of the ADC, David Mark, stressing that retired military officer can’t deliver Benue, his home state, too.

“Take, for example, Benue, where the former senate president, their so-called chairman of the party, his daughter won under APC, and he was in PDP,” he said.

“Will you now say former senate president David Mark will deliver Benue to ADC in 2027? “ Wike said.