The inferno of verbal altercation between the Transport Minister, Rotimi
Chibuike Amaechi through his aide, Mr. David Iyofor and the Ex-President
Goodluck Jonathan’s aide Pastor Reno Omokri rages on as Omokri, in an
article titled, “Rotimi Amaechi: Leave Trash For LAWMA,” replied Amaechi’s
second letter which read, “Again Amaechi’s aide replies Reno: “You’re a
zookeeper; answer my questions, don’t write about lions, monkeys.” saying
Amaechi must “Leave Trash For LAWMA.”
In the response, Omokri maintained that the Transport Minister did not
answer the points he raised in his earlier article titled, “Reno to
Amaechi: “You’re a decorated monkey only loyal to your stomach” wherein
he(Reno) disproved with facts the allegations by Amaechi that the Goodluck
Jonathan administration misappropriated funds meant for the country’s
development.
Reno also said that instead of answering the questions he raised, where he
proved the Minister wrong, Amaechi, however resorted to spewing trash, a
proof that he(Amaechi) “is as irrelevant as the P in Psychology by
spending his time making false allegations instead of fulfilling the
mandate giving him to improve Nigeria’s transport infrastructure.”
Omokri who said that Amaechi’s duty post is the Lagos State Waste
Management Authority, LAWMA, also said that he does not “react to trash
which Amaechi is but instead, he leaves trash for LAWMA.” Reno Omokri
continued by saying that the Former Rivers state Governor and current
Minister of Transport has no job and life outside the government, “which
is why during the 2015 campaigns he was reduced to a driver to President
Muhammadu Buhari and Malam Nasir Elrufai. How the people of Rivers state
suffered to the extent that their Governor became a chauffeur.”
Read the full article:
“Again, Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has left the
issues raised by my response to his fallacious interview to impugn my
character in a vicious ad hominem attack on me. My response is as follows:
Why should I respond to the trash that Rotimi Amaechi has thrown at me?
Out of the fullness of the heart a man speaks. He has trash within him so
he always vomits trash. I do not react to trash. I leave trash to LAWMA.
Rotimi Amaechi, with his pot belly and ill fitting designer clothes, is
trash. My dear minister, here is the address of Lagos State Waste
Management Authority, LAWMA: No. 3 Iddo – Yard, Ijora Olopa, Lagos State.
You can report for duty there since it is your natural habitat! Rather
than trash, I will prefer to respond to issues. The issues are very clear.
Rotimi Amaechi falsely accused ex-President Goodluck Jonathan of pilfering
$49.8 billion in his interview.
I proved that he lied. I proved that the maker of that allegation, the
then Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
later withdrew it after he was faced with evidence of its falsity. I
proved that in February of 2014, the then CBN Governor wrote another
letter to the Senate admitting that he did not know how much or if
anything was unaccounted for saying (and I quote from Sanusi’s letter) it
could be “$10.8 billion or $12 billion or $19 billion or $21 billion — we
do not know at this point”. I also proved that Rotimi Amaechi was being
hypocritical when he accused the former President of not saving because he
was the one who, as then Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum,
insisted on September 21, 2012 that the saved funds in the Excess Crude
Account be shared.
I proved that when former President Jonathan REFUSED to share the funds,
Rotimi Amaechi led the NGF to sue the then Federal Government at the
Supreme Court and got a judgment compelling the Jonathan administration to
share the money saved in the Excess Crude Account. As a result of these
actions, the Jonathan administration was forced to pay the 36 states of
the federation a total of N2.92 trillion from the Excess Crude Account by
2014. Using the value of the Naira at that time, that amount was just
above $20 billion dollars. This was money that was to be saved. Again
Rotimi Amaechi proves that he is as irrelevant as the P in Psychology by
spending his time making false allegations instead of fulfilling the
mandate giving him to improve Nigeria’s transport infrastructure.
Is he so jobless? But I am not surprised. His masters already saw just how
jobless he is which is why during the 2015 campaigns he was reduced to a
driver to President Muhammadu Buhari and Malam Nasir Elrufai. How the
people of Rivers state suffered to the extent that their Governor became a
chauffeur.
You can take a donkey to the River but you cannot force it to drink and
you can make Amaechi a minister but you cannot force him to act like a
minister.
His proper calling in life was perhaps to be a driver! Rotimi Amaechi had
no money to finish the mono rail in his state, but he had $500,000 to
spend on a one day dinner for Professor Wole Soyinka by his own admission.
Is that not proof that he likes food more than knowledge and development?
When he became governor of Rivers state in 2007, the state treasury was
fat and his belly was lean, by the time he left in 2015, the state
treasury was lean and his belly was fat.
In fact, Rotimi Amaechi’s belly swapped destiny with his state’s treasury!
I have had a life before government. I worked at a bank, at Parliament, as
VP of a political consulting firm and now I run my own profitable
business. Does Rotimi Amaechi have a life outside government? The only job
that he has had outside government was a job as Peter Odili’s PA at Pamo
Clinics and Hospitals, Port Harcourt.
Thereafter, he rode on Odili’s coattails from one government post to the
other. His only political skill being to betray one political godfather as
soon as he finds a bigger one. Government post is Rotimi Amaechi’s oxygen
and this was what former President Olusegun Obasanjo saw when he stopped
him from becoming Governor in 2007 because he knew that a man who cannot
generate wealth in his private business is condemned to forever be a
sycophantic political prostitute. With the benefit of hindsight, we now
see that President Obasanjo was right! If Rotimi Amaechi wants to shut my
mouth then I challenge him to go to Rumukwurushi Market in Port Harcourt
without security and shout Sai Baba, Sai Amaechi. If he survives the
encounter, I will forever leave him and his potbelly alone.
By Reno Omokri Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian
Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why
Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri.”