Speaking on Saturday during the inauguration of a pro-APC non-govermental organisation; Free Rivers Development Initiative (FRDI) in Bori, Khana local government area of Rivers, Minister of transportation Rotimi Amaechi says he could have been killed during the fight to install President Muhammadu Buhari.
Amaechi, was the Director-General of the campaign team of Buhari, he de-marketed former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was a threat to the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Amaechi fought Jonathan at every opportunity he had, he was also involved in different rows with security agencies, particularly the police under Joseph Mbu, a former commissioner of police in Rivers.
Amaechi said the “machinery of power” which killed Ken Saro Wiwa was still in force as of the time Buhari sought the highest office in the land.
“Saro-Wiwa was killed by the then machinery of power because of his belief that Ogonis and the Niger Delta should be liberated.
“I could have been killed by same machinery of power when we were fighting to install President Muhammadu Buhari because we fought the same power that killed Saro-Wiwa.” He stated.
Amaechi also said he had planned to turn Bori, a community in Ogoniland, into a big city, and that was why he constructed all the internal roads in the city during his tenure as Governor of Rivers state.
“When I became governor, there was no light in Bori and we brought light from Port Harcourt to the city.
“It was because of poverty I experienced that made me to build primary schools, primary health centres and employed teachers and doctors respectively.
“Today, the current government has reversed everything we did including free education and free healthcare care policies.”
Amaechi went further to say that some Ogoni sons and daughters find it difficult to identify with the late environmentalist but he identified with him.
“Everybody is now claiming to love Ogoni and knew Ken Saro-Wiwa because of election.
“If you love Ogoni, bring projects to Ogoni, train their children because as governor, I trained Ogoni children overseas.
“I made sure that government paid all the fees because education was one of the issues that Saro-Wiwa died for.” He said.
Saro Wiwa fought for the liberation of Ogoni people, South-south and the Niger Delta because he believed they were oppressed he concluded.
