"I Knew I Was Going To Be In Trouble If APC Didn't Win" - Governor Amaechi Admits

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has admitted he would have been in trouble would have been hounded out of the country if APC had failed to win the presidential election.

Speaking at the presentation of a book titled “Dynamics of Change: The Amaechi Years,” Amaechi said:

"I knew I was going to be in trouble. Anything that would cause that change not to take place, I was ready to make that sacrifice. The federal government sent out a signal that if they won nobody should let me out of Nigeria from any airport. One day Asiwaju got angry with me. He was very angry. I went to his house with Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and knelt down, saying ‘please let’s not disagree, let’s win first and then we can disagree.

"I lost my passport in Ghana and went to the High Commission. They gave me a certificate but the Ambassador was given a query for doing so.  I later applied for a passport and they gave me green, not red. Now they have given it to me two weeks ago. I told Asiwaju that what is important is to make a history of the first civilian coup in Nigeria when your children and grandchildren read the history with your name as one of the people who helped bring about change in Nigeria. I said, let us focus on the victory. I remember the day of the convention, there were so many intrigues, there will be convention, there won’t be convention, I said my leader, if we don’t do the convention we are finished, the press will say APC cannot hold a convention, lead us now, there must be convention and election. So, he turned to me and said look for Tunde (Fashola), let us go.”he said.

The book is a compilation of his achievements as a governor. The book was presented in Lagos yesterday May 14th and the foreword was written by Professor Wole Soyinka.