The minister of transportation, Amaechi Rotimi, in view of
2019 election, has admonished members of the APC to devote themselves to God
and trust him.
During a special thanksgiving service that marked the 10th anniversary
of the Supreme Court judgement which declared him Governor of Rivers state,
Amaechi recounted his victorious emergence as governor in 2007.
The thanksgiving service was held at the Abundant Life
Evangelical Mission (ALEM) in Port Harcourt, on Sunday, December 10, Premium
Times reports.
In the gathering, he also shared testimonies of how God
delivered him from his ordeal in 2007.
Following former vice president Atiku Abubakar’s recent
defection from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party, some members of the
opposition party have urged Amaechi to return to the party.
"The truth is that we believed God. Some who didn’t
believe left us just as they are leaving now. God told me that what he will do
in Rivers State will tingle the ears, and I believed. We were so broke, we
could not pay legal fees or children’s school fees.
"My wife prayed every day and night. I was fasting and
praying for 3 months. I told God ‘I have a friend who has money, please make
him remember me.’ I called my friend and he told me he has been looking for me.
"I told him I was in Ghana and he asked for my account…
He sent me Two hundred million naira. This is just to tell you that I believed
God and he answered me,” Amaechi said.
While encouraging youths by saying that there is a vacuum for
them in the corridors of power, he admonished them to be of help to those
around them when they eventually come to power.
“We must all go back to God in faith and prayers. Those who
want to leave can go. I have come to understand that God passes us through
these challenges to prove himself. Now that they have left, for me, this is an
opportunity for the youths. It is your turn. You must ensure that we get to
power for you to fill the vacuum left.
“I have sometimes asked God: ‘Why do you use me to bless
people and after blessing them, they run away.’ Count how many people in Rivers
State politics today that I did not help somehow. I don’t want to take the
glory away from God. So for those who left, may God bless them.
“When you get your own appointment, also put somebody. Allow
God to use you and leave the rest all up to him," he advised.
Concerning the 2019 elections, he said: “If we don’t pray,
2019 will be very far from us. If we don’t win 2019, it would be your fault,
not anybody else. We go to God because he answers. We pray, then go home and
work. Back then, even in my father’s house in the village there was a prayer
team…”
In his sermon, the general overseer of ALEM, Eugene Ogu,
recalled the travails of Amaechi in 2007. He said that his emergence as the
governor of Rivers State was God's answer to his prayer.
He remarked: “Making a man who did not participate in
elections governor is one act of God that can not be erased in the history of
Rivers State. God is in charge of this state, that is why the conspiracy of
evil ones cannot stand."
Apostle Ogu encouraged the congregation to uphold piety and
shun evil, because “what you sow, you shall reap. If you are paid to kill people,
somebody will kill you without collecting money. If you use your pen to lie
against people, if you blackmail people, one day somebody will ‘blackpaint’
you.”
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com reported that the minister of
transportation Rotimi Amaechi disclosed that former president Goodluck Jonathan
admitted he failed the people of Niger Delta after six years in power.
This came even as the former governor of Rivers state
believed dialogue with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will be the
best way to address the unfairness dished out to the region over the years.
Speaking in an interview on Channels TV, Amaechi wondered why
ex-president Jonathan did nothing for Niger Delta in his two years as vice
president and six years as president.
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