A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has said the immediate-past minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has no regrets being a member of the party.
Eze, who disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday, was reacting to a report on social media, which alleged that Amaechi is regretting joining the APC and would be glad to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if approached.
He described the media report as a piece of falsehood earlier concocted peddled by mischief makers and now recycled by some media irritants prompted by hate campaigners to smear the spotless reputation of the former minister.
The APC chieftain said: “Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have responded to this deliberate but yet another concocted false narrative by one faceless paper tiger, who always deceptively tag himself as Mr. Ibe.
“However, I am bound to react because these series of media attacks are pointers to the fact Amaechi is a pragmatic political czar, visionary, team player and a force to reckon with as far as genuine democratic governance and leadership in Nigeria are concerned.
“For those of us in the Amaechi camp, we perceive those peddling these lies aimed at casting aspersion on the person of our principal, as those struggling to overcome the fear-of-unknown syndrome.
“Amaechi’s silence for more than a year in the political scheme of things in this country has caused sleepless nights, unimaginable fear and palpable tension to his detractors. You must not play mind game with falsehood or drag Amaechi’s reputation to the mud because you see him as a potential threat in the buildup to the next political dispensation.
“Amaechi has been vocal about the troubling ineptitude and docile posture of the APC led Federal Government over the hostile economic situation in the country apparently reinforced by the thoughtless policies of the administration which have successfully driven Nigeria into its present hapless fate and have continued progressively, to commandeer the people deeper and deeper into abject poverty.”
