The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that trouble started in Rivers APC because he chose to support a riverine man to be governor of the state.
Amaechi, in a statement said, a certain member of the party in the state has continued to make trouble because he refused to support his governorship ambition.
He stated that he has every right to support whoever he wants, adding that everybody can support an upland person, but for him it is justifiable to support a riverine candidate.
Part of his statement reads,
“Let’s look at the last time the court judgment came and the Supreme Court said, You people should go home and make peace. I came to the party in the state and I rallied everybody. And I said gentlemen, no victor, no vanquished, let everybody come together, we don’t need to make trouble and all that.
But just because I said me, Chibuike Amaechi, will support a riverine candidate, the trouble started again. So, until somebody is made governor of Rivers State, you are not at peace? You can only be a good man when that man is made governor.
“They are denying me my right in choosing who I want to support. And I have said whether they like it or not, the whole Rivers State can go upland, for me, justice is served if I support a riverine man.
