Amaechi: How God Spoke To Me About Rivers State In 2007

Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi has revealed how God told him in 2007 that he will use him to work wonders as governor of Rivers State.

Amaechi, who on Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court judgement that declared him governor of Rivers State, said his emergence as governor that year was “miraculous“.

The minister, at the thanksgiving service that held in Port Harcourt, narrated how he was so poor that he couldn’t pay his children`s school fees before emerging governor of the state.

Amaechi equally revealed what the All Progressives Congress (APC) must do to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019.

He said the APC must pray fervently to hold on to power in the next presidential election.

“The truth is that we believed God. Some who didn’t believe left us just as they are leaving now. God told me that what he will do in Rivers State will tingle the ears, and I believed. We were so broke, we could not pay legal fees or children’s school fees. My wife prayed every day and night. I was fasting and praying for 3 months. I told God ‘I have a friend who has money, please make him remember me.’ I called my friend and he told me he has been looking for me. I told him I was in Ghana and he asked for my account… He sent me Two hundred million naira. This is just to tell you that I believed God and he answered me,” he said.

Reacting to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar”s exit from the APC, as well as how some of his political associates have deserted him, Amaechi said:

“We must all go back to God in faith and prayers. Those who want to leave can go. I have come to understand that God passes us through these challenges to prove himself. Now that they have left, for me, this is an opportunity for the youths. It is your turn. You must ensure that we get to power for you to fill the vacuum left.

“I have sometimes asked God, ‘why do you use me to bless people and after blessing them, they run away.’ Count how many people in Rivers State politics today that I did not help somehow. I don’t want to take the glory away from God. So for those who left, may God bless them.

“When you get your own appointment, also put somebody. Allow God to use you and leave the rest all up to him,” the minister advised.

Amaechi further spoke on the 2019 presidential election, “If we (APC) don’t pray, 2019 will be very far from us. If we don’t win 2019, it would be your fault, not anybody else. We go to God because he answers. We pray, and then go home and work. Back then, even in my father’s house in the village, there was a prayer team.”