The All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in the Senate will meet today to salvage the ministerial nomination of the immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, whose nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari has been enmeshed in controversy in the last two weeks.

APC senators, intend to present a united front to ensure that the former governor scales the screening this week, and if need be use their slim majority to outvote senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the event of a division in the Senate.

Although it could not be ascertained if the PDP Senate caucus was also going to meet on Amaechi’s nomination, but it is likely that the opposition party’s senators will vote against the former governor who has been engaged in a war of attrition with his successor in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, also a member of the PDP.

Amaechi’s screening could not take place last week following a petition against his screening and confirmation by a non-governmental organisation in Rivers State, The Integrity Group.

The group had alleged that Amaechi sold four independent power plants belonging to the state for N70 billion and diverted the money into his private account, thereby asserting that the former governor was not fit to occupy a ministerial position.

Amaechi’s case was made more precarious when the white paper issued by the Rivers State Government on the report of Justice George Omereji’s Judicial Commission of Inquiry, which probed his administration was circulated to senators in Abuja.

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Covering Evil....... Seeing the BLACK and calling it WHITE

Things should be done accordingly

United we stand.......We have the number.