Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation and senior member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has refuted rumours that he may shortly defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in time for the general elections in 2023.
On the Twitter show HardTalk, Umar Sani, a former senior special adviser to vice president Namadi Sambo on media and publicity, said that the former governor of Rivers State had stated that as a devout Catholic, he cannot accept a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket being put out by the APC.
“I’m glad to tell you that in Rivers state, PDP has gotten Amaechi because he (Amaechi) said he is a Catholic and will not support Muslim-Muslim ticket. He is going to support PDP”
“So if there is somebody who can match Wike madness for madness, boxing for boxing, it’s Amaechi” Sani said.
Amaechi refuted the allegation and asserted that he had never stated anything like when approached by PulseNets.
“He is lying. There was never any time I said anything like that” the former chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum” said.
