Nigeria: Rotimi Amaechi and the Verdict of History

In today's Nigeria, Rotimi Amaechi the current Governor of Rivers State is likely to emerge as one of the great personalities that shaped the Nigerian political history of his time.

From 2007 till date, he has been a dogged fighter. First, he fought his former political party-the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the latter's breach of internal democracy. What happened was that the PDP imposed a candidate to contest the governorship election in Rivers State notwithstanding that by its own record, Amaechi won the party primaries arranged to pick the candidate. He then did what many saw as the unthinkable by going to court against the party. It was a battle he fought to the Supreme Court in which no one gave him a chance of survival let alone to defeat the almighty PDP. Indeed, Senator Ifeanyi Araruame the party's governorship candidate for Imo State who was similarly short-changed never made it but Amaechi was declared Governor by the court.

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