Minister for Transport, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said only prayers
and rededication to God can guarantee a victory for the All Progressive
Congress, APC, in the 2019 general elections.
Amaechi spoke while testifying on his ‘miraculous’ emergence as Governor
of Rivers State in 2007 during a special thanksgiving service to mark the
10th anniversary of the Supreme Court judgement that declared him Governor
of Rivers State, held at the Abundant Life Evangelical Mission (ALEM) in
Port Harcourt, Sunday.
He recounted his ordeal at the time and how God showed up for him when all
odds were against him.
“The truth is that we believed God. Some who didn’t believe left us just
as they are leaving now. God told me that what he will do in Rivers State
will tingle the ears, and I believed. We were so broke, we could not pay
legal fees or children’s school fees. My wife prayed every day and night.
I was fasting and praying for 3 months.
“I told God ‘I have a friend who has money, please make him remember me.’
I called my friend and he told me he has been looking for me. I told him I
was in Ghana and he asked for my account… He sent me Two hundred million
naira. This is just to tell you that I believed God and he answered me,”
Amaechi said.
He wondered why many of his friends and political associates whom he
helped one way or the other have betrayed him. But he noted that it is
God’s way of creating a vacuum for the youths to take charge.
He also advised the youths to be of help to people around them when they
are in positions of power.
According to him, “We must all go back to God in faith and prayers. Those
who want to leave can go. I have come to understand that God passes us
through these challenges to prove himself. Now that they have left, for
me, this is an opportunity for the youths. It is your turn. You must
ensure that we get to power for you to fill the vacuum left.
“I have sometimes asked God, ‘why do you use me to bless people and after
blessing them, they run away.’ Count how many people in Rivers State
politics today that I did not help somehow. I don’t want to take the glory
away from God. So, for those who left, may God bless them.
“When you get your own appointment, also put somebody. Allow God to use
you and leave the rest all up to him,” Amaechi advised.
On the 2019 elections, he continued, “if we don’t pray, 2019 will be very
far from us. If we don’t win 2019, it would be your fault, not anybody
else’.
“We go to God because he answers. We pray, then go home and work. Back
then, even in my father’s house in the village, there was a prayer team…”
During his sermon, General Overseer of ALEM, Apostle Eugene Ogu recalled
the travails of Amaechi in 2007, how he cried at the altar and how God
used him to make a statement in Rivers State.
He said, “making a man who did not participate in elections governor is
one act of God that cannot be erased in the history of Rivers State. God
is in charge of this state. That is why the conspiracy of evil ones cannot
stand.
Apostle Ogu admonished the congregation to do good and avoid evil
communications, because “what you sow, you shall reap. If you are paid to
kill people, somebody will kill you without collecting money. If you use
your pen to lie against people, if you blackmail people, one day, somebody
will ‘blackpaint’ you.”