Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has claimed that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience Jonathan, forced him out of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Amaechi said the couple took control of the party's political structure in Rivers State and handed it over to others. He made the allegation in an interview with Channels Television on Friday.
Amaechi stated, "I was literally chased out of the PDP by former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife." He added that the same pattern occurred later within the All Progressives Congress, APC. According to him, his removal from the PDP structure was punishment for dissenting against Jonathan's policies and serving as Chairman of the Governors Forum at the time.
He revealed he had multiple meetings with Jonathan to discuss policy disagreements. Amaechi also said he informed President Bola Tinubu of his policy disagreements on the day Tinubu won the APC presidential primaries.
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