Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has broken his silence on the controversy surrounding his membership in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former presidential candidate of the party denied reports that he regrets joining the APC.
Amaechi’s ally and confidant, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday.
He refuted claims that the former Rivers State Governor had expressed regret over his decision to join the APC.
Eze stated that Amaechi never granted an interview to any media outlet expressing regret over his membership in the party, and that the reports were entirely false.
He said, “Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have decided to join issues with undemocratic merchants on their ill-fated assumption concerning the political life of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
“Doing so definitely will amount to glorifying detractors, backstabbers, and habitual blackmailers, who are threatened by Amaechi’s silence in the affairs of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
“However, as a progressive, humane and grassroots-oriented politician, and considering the fact that Amaechi is one of the key political gladiators that formed APC and eventually wrestled power from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I am constrained to set the records straight.
“For posterity’s sake, I have come to make this clarification in order not to massage the political ego of ungrateful allies, as keeping quiet will send a dangerous signal in the APC family and the country’s polity.
“Flowing from the above summation, I make bold to state that Amaechi’s silence in the affairs of our great party is purely a personal issue and based on self-convictions.
“It has come to my knowledge of an orchestrated mischief and a deliberate but concerted effort aimed at maligning and placing Amaechi in public opprobrium.
“The said report ascribed to Amaechi, to say the least, is a handiwork of political charlatans and their sponsors who are hell-bent on destroying a hand that once fed them.
“Amaechi is a complete party man, a strategist, a proactive and focused politician, who would not condescend so low to rant publicly on issues that would negate the growth and existence of APC and intra-party politics.”
Eze disclosed that when he informed Amaechi about the reports, he said, “I did not say that rubbish.
“I must state that I am fully aware of the sponsor of such a diabolical act aimed at demeaning the person and personality of Amaechi before the public but that is an exercise in futility.”
According to him, “Amaechi didn’t utter or was interviewed by the mysterious person as he has no regret of joining APC and bringing it to power.
“He has no regret for whatsoever he did in making history by transforming the rail transportation in Nigeria, neither does he have any regret bringing Buhari to power.”