A
former assistant to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno
Omokri, has described the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi as a
“decorated monkey.”
Omokri made the remark in response to attack on his person from the camp of the former Governor of Rivers State.
The
ex-Presidential spokesman had claimed that the Minister lied on the
figures of $49.8bn he, Amaechi, claimed was pilfered from the national
treasury by Jonathan.
Against this backdrop, a media aide to the Minister, David Iyofor, had called Omokri a lunatic.
Reacting
to the attack, Omokri in an article sent to DAILY POST said, ”It has
been brought to my attention the attack on my person by the Minister of
Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, after I exposed his lies with regards to the
figure of $49.8 billion which he claimed former President Goodluck
Jonathan pilfered from the national treasury.
“In my response to
that false allegation, I stated with facts, figures and dates that not
only did Mr. Amaechi lie, but that he is directly to blame for some of
the economic challenges facing the nation. Unable to dispute my facts,
Amaechi has resorted to insults and abuse on my person. My response is
as follows:
“I will never, ever exchange insults with a lowlife. A
lowlife with a ministerial position is still a lowlife just as a
decorated monkey is still a monkey. Other than holding one government
position or the other, Amaechi has never been associated with any
private success so he is very insecure when people challenge his
unenviable record in government with facts.
“To borrow a line
from a hit song, I Reno Omokri, know who God says I am, where he says I
am at and what he says I will be. I do not need a government position to
maintain my relevance. I was somebody before I went into government, I
am somebody after leaving government and by the grace of God, I will
forever remain somebody without a government position, so nothing a pot
bellied man can say or do to me can ever alter what God has said about
me.
“I would rather advise Rotimi Amaechi to respond to the
issues I raised, namely that there was no missing ‘$49.8 billion’ and
that on September 21, 2012, he called on the Federal Government to share
the funds in the Excess Crude Account, and that it was he, Rotimi
Amaechi, as Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, that led some
state governors to take the Federal Government to court to compel it to
share the proceeds from the Excess Crude Account because then President
Jonathan insisted on saving the money, a case that they won and
therefore it is hypocritical of him to accuse former President Jonathan
of not saving for the rainy day.
“I challenge Rotimi Amaechi to
separate himself from his government positions and see if he can
maintain his relevance. He borrows his relevance from government. He
does not add relevance to government. In two years as a minister, the
only ‘achievement’ he can boast of is the Abuja-Kaduna railway that was
built and completed by the very same Goodluck Jonathan he likes to
castigate.
“President Jonathan has been out of office for two
years. I am no longer his aide, neither am I on salary, yet I continue
to be loyal to him. Can Amaechi say the same of himself? Is he capable
of being loyal to anybody or institution without having something to
gain? Is that not why his stomach is protruding and potbellied? Because
he is only loyal to his stomach! No wonder he admitted spending $500,000
to host Professor Wole Soyinka to a one day dinner. Amaechi epitomizes
stomach infrastructure!
“It is this loyalty to stomach only that
has placed Amaechi in the awkward position where ALL the living
ex-Governors of Rivers state are against him along with the incumbent
Governor, Nyesom Wike. A man who cannot command loyalty at home and
can’t walk the streets of Port Harcourt without armed guards.
“What
Amaechi does not understand is that there is life after government.
Whenever President Muhammadu Buhari retires from politics, he will be
received with joy by Katsina people. Whenever Bola Tinubu retires, he
will be received with arms wide open by Lagos people. But who will
receive Amaechi when he retires? Certainly not Rivers people who view
him as a serial betrayer of their interests and the interests of his
zone. A man who can sell his own mother for a useless government
position cannot expect to retire in the motherland. Maybe Amaechi will
retire to Daura with Buhari as his domestic servant and in house
sycophant for life!
“Has he forgotten so soon how he was publicly
disgraced by his colleague, the minister of Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu,
when he was trying to sabotage the Maritime University at Okerenkoko?
While others are attracting development to their zones, Amaechi is
subtracting progress from his zone. Thank God for Kachikwu who told him
that “We are not going to throw away the baby with bathwater. We deal
with the issues but the university will be developed. If he (Amaechi)
does not want it in Maritime, I will take it in petroleum”?
“Even
if Rotimi Amaechi spends all day insulting me directly or through
proxies, it takes absolutely nothing from me. If insults could kill,
Donald Trump would be dead, but he is in the White House instead.
“A
lizard with an overinflated ego is still a lizard, not an alligator.
Rotimi Amaechi may have left his village but his village never left him!
That is why he continues to display his inferiority complex by dressing
in ill fitting designer clothes bought at huge expense! Alas, he is
trying to suppress the memory of when he wore the same clothes for three
days. But the man makes the clothes, the clothes don’t make the man.
Poverty mentality is his undoing!
“He calls himself lion of
Ubima. A lion with a pot belly and that can’t win elections? If he wants
to see a real lion he should go to Bourdillon!
“Finally, rather
than insult me, Rotimi Amaechi should seek medical attention for his
protruding pot belly. Doctors warn that a protruding belly, like his, is
a symptom of too much food and too little exercise.
“Obviously,
Rotimi Amaechi should focus more on exercising his body and his brain.
Unfortunately, he seems to only exercise his mouth by eating too much
and talking too much which is why he is prone to frequent verbal and
anal diarrhea.
“Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ
Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to
God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri.”
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