June 5, 2026
Donu Kogbara
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the former Rivers State Governor and former Minister of Transportation, recently made his second bid for a presidential candidacy (the first was in 2022), but was defeated at the primaries stage by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President who basically owns the ADC opposition party to which Amaechi belongs.
Amaechi’s political fortunes are now languishing in the doldrums, to put it mildly. His glory days of being a powerful presence on the national stage ended when ex-President Buhari died.
Meanwhile, he has expressed the view that Atiku is unelectable and vehemently insisted that he is not willing to play second fiddle to Atiku on the campaign trail; and there is no evidence to suggest that Atiku wants to run alongside him anyway, so what next for Amaechi?
