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A citizens network amplifying the vision, impact, and ideals of HE Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. [email protected]
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SENATOR TAMBUWAL DECLARED, “EVEN IF WE HAVE TO HOLD THE RALLY ON THE STREETS OF SOKOTO, NOTHING WILL STOP US!” — H.E. ROTIMI AMAECHI COMMENDS THE ADC SOKOTO LEADERSHIP FOR THEIR COMMITMENT AS THE ADC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OFFICIALLY FLAGS OFF! #AtikuInSokoto #AtikuAmaechi2027 #NigeriaDecides2027
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THE COASTAL ROAD DIVERSION: HOW AMAECHI SAW TOMORROW AND WAS CRITICIZED FOR IT By Sopriala Membere (Sopriala Membere🇻🇦⚓) Columnist, Scholar and Member CRA Advocacy Network ——————————————— I have been thinking about Rotimi Amaechi these past few days, and about how quickly this country forgets. When the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway was unveiled with all the fanfare of a divine decree, Amaechi did something then unfashionable and unpopular: he spoke from knowledge and he offered an alternative. He never said the South-South did not deserve connectivity that was cooking with the coastal road. He said, rather, that in a season of resource scarcity, a government with limited means should rehabilitate and expand the existing East-West Road, upgrade the Benin–Asaba axis, and build a new Ikot-Ekpene–Calabar bridge to close the final gap. Same purpose, far cheaper, faster to deliver. And then, because he understood what the coastline was actually for, he argued that the real prize was the coastal railway he had designed as Minister of Transportation—the line that would run the length of the South-South and transform the region's economy. In October 2025, during a CRA Advocacy Network Zoom session, the coastal road question came up, and I watched Rotimi Amaechi address it head-on in real time. The questions from participants were not soft. They pressed him on his record as governor of Rivers State; how he had confronted insecurity and brought Rivers State to order within months of taking office.. He answered plainly, without embellishment. And when the coastal road came up, he doubled down. He did not trim, did not hedge, did not search for a safer sentence. Someone on the call asked him directly: did he not think this was an unpopular thing to say? He doubled down again. This struck me—not the stubbornness of it, but the conviction of it all. Here was a man who had done similar studies for the coastal rail, walked the terrain in his mind, and was willing to be unpopular in the present because the future would bear him out. The future, it turns out, arrived this week. President Tinubu has now directed that the coastal highway be diverted—that there be "no new alignments," that the road be passed through the existing East-West Road instead. Difficult terrain. Flooding. Cost. The same logic Amaechi was abused by Tinubu’s camp for articulating. The same East-West corridor he proposed to rehabilitate and expand, now confirmed as the sensible spine all along. Meanwhile, the railway he championed for the South-South remains unbuilt and totally abandoned even after all approvals and studies have been concluded. Vindication is a lonely prize. It does not restore a reputation in the eyes of those who insulted him, nor cover for resources lost to a route now discarded. But it confirms something larger than Amaechi: that expertise is not bitterness, that institutional memory is not sabotage, and that a nation which punishes its own knowledge pays for the folly in naira and in trust. And it is why the conviction I witnessed on that call matters beyond one man. It is the quality the Atiku–Amaechi ticket on the ADC platform speaks to—that governance is not theatre, and that infrastructure is not a monument to appetite but an answer to need, and that a country with empty coffers must build only what its realities and its public finances can honestly carry. Projects that do not speak to the realities of Nigeria should not be embarked upon, whatever their ribbon-cutting appeal. That is what effective, efficient governance looks like: saying the unpopular true thing, and being willing to be vindicated by history. The road has been diverted at last. The truth, sadly, takes longer.
CRA Advocacy Network34,481 görüntüleme • 25 gün önce
"You must leave Kano now. If you don't leave now, I can't guarantee your safety." 🛑 HE Rotimi Amaechi recounts the tense night he and other leaders were forced to drive all the way from Kano to Abuja under threat. #Atiku2027 #AtikuAmaechi #ADC #NigeriaDecides2027
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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 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
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.
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🚨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 Network81,395 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
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 👇
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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.
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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
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He crushed militancy and maritime insecurity, built West Africa's first double-track standard gauge rail line, Nigeria's first Deep Sea Port, and first Train Assembly Plant. He did so well that his opponents - the ruling party, can't launch a campaign without showcasing HIS achievements. #ADC #Atiku2027 #AtikuAmaechi
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"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 Network20,422 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
"Nigeria is rich enough to look after the welfare of its citizens." - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (Atiku Abubakar), ADC Presidential Candidate. As leaders of the African Democratic Congress ( ADC) party met yesterday, the mission was clear: make Nigeria affordable again. #Atiku2027 #AtikuAmaechi
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