Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the Minister of Transport and former governor of Rivers state has said that contrary to popular opinion, he did not abuse the outgoing Senator Representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Magnus Abe.
The minister also said he was not ready to give up on the struggle between him and Nyesom Wike.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Pulse TV, Amaechi said: “Ordinarily, I would not want to comment on that but let us take Magnus, who wants to be governor, for example. I told him that since both of us come from upland, he should allow riverine to go. But he said that I abused him before his wife.
“As an Ikwerre man, the assumption in Ikwerre is that if nobody can control a man, his wife should and that was why I called his wife to beg her husband not to run. To show how much he is not a Christian, he told the world that I told the wife that I will finish him if he runs. Is that possible and can you do that to even a mad man?
“Most Christians take God for granted because of the principle of forgiveness. It is like what I told Peter Obi after I had won the chairmanship of the Governorship Forum, 19 to 16. I saw him in the Catholic Church after watching him campaigning round the media that I did not win.
“I challenged him to kneel down before the Blessed Sacrament in the altar to swear that I did not win that election and I will resign there and then. But he told me that it is politics and I should not bring religion into politics.
“So, Magnus, Wike and others rose from my hands politically. God used me as a tool to spring all of them. During the APC presidential campaign in Rivers state, I told Mr President and the crowd that 80 per cent of the current Rivers politicians passed through me.
“I nominated Austin Opara the Deputy Speaker for House of Representatives. I put my cousin Celestine Omehia as Commissioner under Rufus Ada George. Magnus and many others passed through me.”
