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Guided by the empathy forged from losing her mother at a tender age, Her Excellency Dame Judith Amaechi, wife of the ADC vice-presidential candidate HE Rotimi Amaechi, transformed personal loss into an institutional force for good. Through her NGO, the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI), she has dedicated decades to providing novel training and empowerment initiatives for women, youths, and children across Rivers State and the nine Niger Delta states, pioneering iconic projects like the nation's first-ever Ladies Cabbie Taxi Scheme to empower women.
CRA Advocacy Network32,380 views • 7 days ago
ATIKU-AMAECHI: THE ONLY TICKET EQUIPPED TO REVIVE AND ADVANCE PORTS IN THE SOUTH-SOUTH & SOUTH-EAST By Sopriala Membere ( Sopriala Membere🇻🇦⚓ ) Columnist, Scholar and Member CRA Advocacy Network Video: Circa 2020 (a few months before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic) _____________________________________ It was on Wednesday, August 26th, 2026, before a delegation of political support groups who had travelled from Northern Nigeria to pledge their loyalty, that former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, now the presidential standard-bearer of the African Democratic Congress, uttered a sentence that may yet prove to be one of the most consequential policy declarations of the 2027 election cycle. Among his commitments was a pledge to develop the country's other existing southern ports, and in elaborating on how long this had preoccupied him, he recalled travelling to Europe during an earlier campaign to discuss with shippers and ship-development companies how those ports might be built up to create, as he put it, "balance as far as importation is concerned" between the south south and south East and the rest of the country. It is worth pausing to consider what was happening in that room. A northern politician, standing before a largely northern audience in the federal capital, was not promising roads or boreholes or the usual transactional favours that define Nigerian electoral patronage directed at the north. He was talking about Calabar, about Uyo, about Port Harcourt, about Onne ports that have languished in the shadows of Lagos for so long that an entire generation of Nigerian traders has grown up believing that importation is synonymous with Apapa and Tin Can Island. He was talking about maritime equity, about the radical proposition that a federation should not have one throat through which all its commerce must pass. And he was doing so not as a rhetorical flourish but as a man who had already done the homework, who had sat across tables in European shipping offices and argued the case for Nigeria’s forgotten harbours. The immediate context was personal and visceral. Atiku spoke of his own factory in Adamawa, of the absurdity of watching containers sit in a congested Lagos port traffic for up to two months before reaching Yola, of young entrepreneurs driven into bankruptcy not by market forces but by the structural insanity of a port system that treats the rest of the country as a hinterland of Lagos. “How can there be security?” he asked, and the question hung in the air with the weight of someone who understands that economic desperation is the mother of insecurity. But to read Atiku’s August 26th declaration merely as a campaign promise is to miss its deeper resonance. It belongs to a longer conversation about what Nigeria has done to itself through decades of infrastructural monoculture, about how a nation with 853 kilometres of Atlantic coastline and natural harbours that once served as the gateways of West African trade came to depend on a single overburdened port artery in Lagos, while the Eastern Ports—Calabar, Port Harcourt, Onne, Warri, decayed in various stages of elegant neglect. The Nigerian Ports Authority has lately been scrambling to reverse this, securing a $1.1 billion rehabilitation facility and overseeing a $2.9 billion expansion at Onne. Yet these are bureaucratic interventions, palliatives administered by an agency that knows the patient is haemorrhaging but lacks the political authority to perform the needed surgery that addresses the root cause of the hemorrhage. What the Eastern Ports require is not incremental rehabilitation but a presidential-level commitment backed by a vice president who understands, from lived administrative experience, precisely how the arteries of Nigerian maritime commerce function. This is where the ADC’s selection of Rotimi Amaechi as Atiku’s running mate transforms the August 26 pledge from aspiration into an executable policy.
CRA Advocacy Network34,963 views • 8 days ago
For decades, Her Excellency Chief Mrs. Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar, wife of the ADC presidential candidate and former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, didn't just fight human trafficking and child abuse; she turned advocacy into law. Through her NGO, WOTCLEF, she championed one of Nigeria’s early private member's bills of the Fourth Republic, which led to the landmark Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2003 and the establishment of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to shield the vulnerable.
CRA Advocacy Network22,252 views • 7 days ago
"Tinubu remove subsidy, poverty come increase everywhere. Atiku go bring back subsidy, price of everything go come down" - Amaechi HE Rotimi Amaechi continues his grassroots engagements, as he meets with stakeholders across Wards 13 and 14 in Ndoni ( ONELGA)
CRA Advocacy Network20,245 views • 15 days ago
HE. Rotimi Amaechi and his wife, Dame Judith Amaechi arriving at St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Ubima, earlier today for the funeral service of his beloved mother, Dame Ezinne Mary Orduah Amaechi. Upon arrival they exchanged pleasantries with distinguished guests, including: • Senator David Mark • Senator John James Akpanudoedehe • Dr Abubakar Malami, SAN • Sir Celestine Omehia • Dr. Bolaji Abdullahi • Senator Ireti Kingibe • Senator Tunde Ogbeha
CRA Advocacy Network12,083 views • 13 days ago
🚨A MUST WATCH! "My supporters don't fight on social media. It’s not for lack of vocabulary. It's for peace. Why trade insults when you have the facts and receipts? " HE Rotimi Amaechi explains why he’s warned his camp to stay out of online fights and shares some words of wisdom you don't want to miss.
CRA Advocacy Network81,324 views • 4 months ago
While Nigeria battles grid collapses, this video 📹 shows how Amaechi, as Governor, was already building a way out for Rivers State years ago. Rivers would be an energy powerhouse today if the FGN hadn’t pulled the plug⚡️🇳🇬 See why it stalled in Mimam Joshua Sampson Egop 's thread 👇
CRA Advocacy Network98,977 views • 7 months ago
ADC PRIMARIES 📍 10 DAYS TO GO!! 🇳🇬 H.E. Rotimi Amaechi doesn't mince words. In a brief interview following the submission of his nomination form at the ADC Party Secretariat yesterday, he outlined the only process he’ll support for the ADC Presidential Ticket. He also answered: 1. Why he is the best candidate for the Presidency. 2. His plans for a better Nigeria. Watch the full interview below 👇 #AmaechiforPresident
CRA Advocacy Network54,139 views • 4 months ago
H.E. Rotimi Amaechi paid a courtesy call on Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere earlier today. He was accompanied by: • Pastor Usani Uguru Usani (Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs & Vice Chairman, ADC South-South) • Barr. Mohammed Hassan Abdullahi (Former Minister of Environment) • Hon. Asita (Former Member, House of Representatives) • Hon. Herman Iorwase Hembe (Member, House of Representatives) • Sen. Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman (Former Senator, Kogi Central) • Hon. Nasiru Baballe Ila (Former Member, House of Representatives) #Atiku #AtikuAmaechi #ADC
CRA Advocacy Network17,413 views • 2 months ago
ADC LAGOS TOWNHALL MEETING: AMAECHI’S MESSAGE PT 2🇳🇬 “So I know the problems, and by God's grace, I think I know the solutions. But the problem I have is I don't have the power. You have the power, only you can give it.” - HE Rotimi Amaechi For all those asking why Amaechi is better than other candidates, listen to him reel out some of his achievements across Nigeria in one of his most unfiltered speeches. From reviving Nigeria's rail network, to being the only Governor to provide the infrastructure for 24-hour power supply, to easing the burden on parents through one of the most comprehensive free education systems Nigeria has ever witnessed. Wait for the funny story at the end — Classic Amaechi! 😂
CRA Advocacy Network25,344 views • 4 months ago
AMAECHI vs. INEC (2007) 🇳🇬 As the country awaits another landmark Supreme Court judgment, the air is thick with the same tension that defined 2007. Amaechi vs. INEC (2007) remains one of the most significant cases in Nigerian history. At its core, it was a battle against the unlawful substitution of a candidate. Law students at Nile University recently received a rare front-row seat to history as H.E. Rotimi Amaechi broke down the significance of the case, sharing the personal, emotional toll and the legal strategy that changed Nigeria’s electoral laws forever. In a session filled with never-before-heard personal accounts, he shared details of the moment the law proved it was the ultimate equalizer. As the nation stands at another judicial crossroads, Amaechi’s story serves as a masterclass in: • The Power of the Apex Court: Why the Supreme Court remains the final bastion of hope. It doesn't just settle cases; it preserves the soul of our democracy. • Resilience Under Fire: The grueling emotional toll of waiting for a judgment that decides your destiny. • Legal Integrity: A charge to the next generation of lawyers to uphold the rule of law over political convenience. And yes...the name 'Wike' made an appearance. 😊
CRA Advocacy Network18,401 views • 4 months ago
