Chidi Samuel || A former governor of Rivers State and minister of transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi on Sunday during a thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt narrated to worshipers how after praying and fasting for three months, God used a friend to provide the N200 million needed for his personal expenditure and litigation fees in the battle to reclaim his mandate in the 2007 election.
Many Nigerians will recall the K leg parable as narrated by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo that lead to the withdrawal of Amechi’s victory at the 2007 Rivers state PDP primaries in favour of Celestine Omehia who eventually was elected governor.
Amaechi relocated to Ghana and challenged the process that produced Omehia at the supreme court and eventually prevailed after six months of legal battle.
Narrating his ordeal on Sunday, Amaechi said, “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,” Amaechi said.
“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 three 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.
“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.”
He, therefore, warned that 2019 will “be very far from us” if members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) fails to pray.