Nigerian literary icon, Wole Soyinka, has hailed former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi for refusing to step down for Bola Tinubu during the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential primary election in 2022.
Amaechi was among the over 20 members of the APC that battled for the sole presidential ticket of the ruling party prior to the 2023 presidential election.
While many others stepped down and backed Tinubu for the ticket, Amaechi, former Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, Pastor Tunde Bakare and former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha were some of the aspirants that stood to the end.
Amaechi came second behind the President Tinubu in the election and have allegedly worked in opposition against the government.
The former governor, who is now fully in the opposition, is a key member of the coalition gearing towards unsettling and unseating the government of President Tinubu come 2027.
Amaechi and Bola Tinubu worked hand-in’-hand to remove the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP government led by Goodluck Jonathan back in 2014-15.
Both men dispensed their resources to ensure that Muhammadu Buhari emerged as President and stayed in office for eight years.
Soyinka, who was invited as the Chairman to Amaechi’s 60th birthday celebration in Abuja at the weekend, said he admired the fighting spirit of the former Minister of Transportation.
He said, “The main reason why I had to be here is, first of all is that I admire Rotimi’s fighting spirit, and it’s a very consistent one.
“The most memorable for me, because I watched this event live on TV all the way from Abu Dhabi. I wanted to see the drama of all the primaries going on during the election. I wasn’t really here, but I said, I want to watch this, this contest, and I’m glad I did because it gave me a great, most malicious pleasure, rascally, if you like, pleasure to see the incumbent president[Tinubu] being given a dose of his own medicine.
“Let me explain this, as we knew as he [Tinubu] was the last man standing when he fought to a standstill a former president[Obasanjo]who was maneuvering himself into a position of changing the constitution and becoming obtaining a third term.
“He keeps denying it but he and I know for a fact, and so do others, and towards that goal, he was sort of escalating the powers of the constituent elements of the Federation.
“And by the end, [Tinubu] resisted that effort. All the others had sort of cowed down because their statutory allocation had been stopped contrary to the Constitution.
“One man, he[ Tinubu] was the last man standing. Well, he obtained a dose of his own medicine from Amaechi during the primaries.
“I enjoyed that very much. While everybody was, you know, falling over one another, conceding, conceding, as one individual who got on the podium and he said, ‘No, I’m not conceding. I didn’t come all the way here to [concede].’ Thst one person is Amaechi. And I said this is what democracy is all about.”
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