Amaechi rejected as Atiku’s running mate

Crisis is brewing in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the Southern Political Progressives Amalgamation Forum has rejected former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as the running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2027 general elections.
The Forum’s Convener, Anga Fidelis, and two others, in a statement yesterday, claimed that Amaechi would be defeated even in his hometown in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Fidelis also argued that if Amaechi could not win his local government area in the last eight years, what were the chances that he would help Abubakar secure votes in the 17 states in the southern part of the country: ...