It would be remembered that the Peoples Democratic Party had on Monday suspended Amaechi, citing anti-party activities and now it seems like the “cat with nine lives” is fighting back, the streets of Abuja has been flooded with Presidential campaign posters featuring Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday thus signalling an interesting twist to the 2015 elections.
The coloured posters, versions of which had been reportedly sighted earlier in Kaduna and Niger states, bear portraits of Lamido and Amaechi in a joint ticket campaign posture.
Some of the posters, seen pasted along the Abuja-Gwarimpa-Kubwa Expressway, had the inscription “2015: Vote for Lamido/Amaechi ticket.”
It would be recalled that Amaechi’s suspension came barely two days after he won a re-election as Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, a post which the party had warned him not to contest.
He won against Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, said to be a favourite of the Presidency and leaders of the PDP which seemed to have angered the executive arm of the party.
Amaechi had described the suspension by the PDP National Working Committee as a political witch-hunt which he said showed the “desperation of Abuja people.”
He said the PDP gave him no fair hearing and that his suspension by the party was politically-motivated.
The outcome of the NGF election has been mired in controversy with both Amaechi and Governor of Plateau State Jonah Jang, claiming victory.
Already, one of the governors from the northern part of the country, who spoke in confidence to some journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, said he and his colleagues were not moved with threats to either suspend or expel them from the party.
He said it would be wrong for the leadership of the party to claim ignorance of the law as stipulated in the PDP constitution concerning the party’s NEC.
The governor said he and his colleagues knew that one of the problems Amaechi had with the party was his presiding over PDP governors’ meetings, where the state chief executives demanded the convening of the NEC meeting