By Charles Pemu 
Former Transportation Minister and ex-Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has dismissed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, calling him a political child unworthy of serious engagement.
Speaking on ARISE TV on Tuesday, Amaechi said, “God, Peter Odili, the judiciary, and Rivers people made me governor. Ask him how he became one. I don’t want to join issues with children.”
This comes after Wike criticized Amaechi’s comment on national hunger at his 60th birthday, where Amaechi said, “We’re all hungry. If you’re not hungry, I am.” He added that the opposition could remove the current government if it wanted.
Wike accused Amaechi of being “hungry for power,” noting he never raised hunger issues while in office from 1999 to 2023.
Amaechi refuted claims that Wike made him governor, stating his emergence was due to divine backing, legal victory, and the people’s support. He revealed he appointed Wike as Chief of Staff instead of Finance Commissioner to keep him under close watch.
“He wanted Finance, but I made him Chief of Staff so I could supervise him directly. That’s how much I trusted him not enough to handle finances,” Amaechi said.
He mocked Wike’s ambition: “He made himself Chief of Staff, made himself governor, made himself minister now he thinks he made himself everything.”
As political tensions build ahead of 2027, their feud underscores deepening rivalries within the ruling APC and the South-South power bloc.