The Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress
(APC) Students’ League, Mr. Oge Okparanta, has described as frivolous,
the allegations levelled against a former Governor of Rivers State,
Rotimi Amaechi, a ministerial nominee.
He
noted that with Amaechi making the ministerial list submitted Tuesday
to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari, it became clear that the
writers of petitions against the former Minister for Transportation were
simply chasing shadows.
Okparanta
on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, maintained that
the cocktail of lies against Amaechi lacked substance.
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also condemned the unnecessary attacks on the ex-transportation
minister by unnamed persons that he described as enemies of progress.
Publicity
secretary of APC, students’ league said: “The catalogue of provocative
vituperations and campaigns of calumny launched against the former
Governor of Rivers State (Amaechi) in a determination to stop his
reappointment into the federal cabinet is the brainchild of some
frustrated and desperate politicians.
“The
petition writers’ initial target was to ensure that the name of Amaechi
was excluded from President Buhari’s list of ministerial nominees, but
they have failed, as the former Minister for Transportation will soon
appear before the distinguished Senators of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria for screening and possible confirmation, in view of his earlier
impressive performance.”
Okparanta
also stated that the enemies of progress might still not be tired of
their shameful acts, stressing that they might again fabricate documents
and dig up lies as tools to embarrass Amaechi before the Senators,
while expressing optimism that they would still fail and be disgraced
