2019 presidency: APC, govs, ministers oppose Amaechi as Buhari’s DG

Major stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have kicked against the re-appointment of the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, as the Director- General of the President’s Campaign Organisation in the 2019 election.

The stakeholders include party leaders, governors elected on the party’s platform, ministers, and National Assembly members.

New Telegraph learnt that the argument of the APC stakeholders is that the President cannot just appoint anyone as the Director- General of his campaign organisation without consulting the party’s hierarchy.

Amaechi served as the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation in 2015, but our correspondent gathered that the party chieftains are rooting for someone who is “more matured” to handle the position ahead of the 2019 polls.

They reasoned that Amaechi lacks the temperament to handle such position now that the ruling party is facing confidence crisis.

New Telegraph, February 12, 2018

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