Rotimi Amaechi looks like President Buhari's Favorite to become His Successor:- Enyinnavictorblog APC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES As the All ...
Rotimi Amaechi looks like President Buhari's Favorite to become His Successor:- Enyinnavictorblog
APC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
As the All Progressive Congress (APC) long awaited Special National Convention/Presidential Primaries count down in hours from now. The 3-day Special National Convention/Presidential Primaries is slated to hold from Monday 6th June to Wednesday 8th June 2022.
Having, Thursday 9th June 2022 being the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) final date for all Political Party's to submit their Presidential Candidate for the 2023 General Elections.
In camp All Progressive Congress (APC), confusion had been who will be the candidate to match that of the major opposition, People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar, a Former Vice President of the Nation, A Popular candidate for his consistency in aspiring for the office of the president.
Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari appealed to his party, to avoid him choose his successor, which the party acknowledge by deciding to shorten the twenty-three (23) Presidential Hopeful of the APC to ten (10) to allow Mr President make his choice.
CONSENSUS & ZONING UNSETTLE PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS
All these developments are coming even as APC’s zoning and the much flaunted but controversial consensus arrangements continue to unsettle both the aspirants and other stakeholders in the party. Already, nine northern governors are said to have joined their southern counterparts in the push for a southern candidate as they believe that a strong candidate from the South could also match PDP’s Atiku Abubakar in the big battle ahead. They also believe that the zoning arrangement, which the party dearly subscribes to, but is about to be jettisoned for political expediency, must be respected. To these nine governors, it is the turn of the South to produce the presidential candidate of the ruling APC.
The governors, according to a source close to the development, are Governors Babagana Zulum of Borno State; Simeon Lalong of Plateau State; Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State.
Others include; Governors Aminu Masari of Katsina State; Abubakar Bello of Niger State; AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State; Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State.
BUHARI'S FAVORITE: ROTIMI AMAECHI
Fifty-six (56) year-old, Rotimi Amaechi is from Rivers State in the South-South geopolitical zone of the country. A former Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for two terms, between 1999 and 2007, he was also a two-term governor of the state between 2007 and 2015.
Amaechi, who was the Minister of Transportation between 2015 and May 2022, is believed to be highly favoured by President Buhari. His recent coronation as Dan Amanar Daura (the trusted son of Daura)’s honour by Buhari’s kinsmen in Katsina is an indication of how much he is loved in the North.
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi was the Director-General of the Buhari-Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Committee in the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections, Amaechi is believed to have met the benchmark of outstanding service as a minister as he also fits the bridge between the old and younger generations. At 56, the immediate past Minister of Transportation is seen as being capable of birthing the much-vaunted generational shift in Nigeria’s political leadership. As a hybrid of Igbo extraction (South-East and South-South), he is seen to fit into the President’s calculation of giving the presidential ticket to the South-East coupled with his outstanding performances, especially in the infrastructure development of the country.
Also his wealth of experience in leadership, a one time Speaker, Governor, Minister and Campaign Organization Chairman, has endeared him to being a man with capacity, Popularity and acceptance in bother the Northern & Southern Party of the Country.
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