Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi

• Transport: Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi; the Rivers State ex-Governor takes this big spending ministry at the centre of the government's infrastructure development plans (AC Vol 54 No 16 Amaechi takes on Jonathan)...

Two very different figures militant leader Tompolo and former Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi are likely to play a critical role in the new order...

Heading the political side of the list is a strong triumvirate of younger ex-governors: Fashola (Lagos) Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Fayemi (Ekiti) who all made big contributions to Buhari's APC election victory as directors of Fund-raising Campaigning and Policy and Strategy respectively are at its core...

Other former PDP leaders due to play roles in the new government include former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former or serving state governors Abubakar Bukola Saraki Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rotimi Amaechi...

After the exit of the APC's Rotimi Amaechi as Rivers State Governor the new government faces fresh agitation and mixed messages from militants in the Delta...

Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi whose defection from the PDP got the APC off to a flying start in 2013 was one of the first governors to insist that all social and economic services provided by the Rivers State government would be available to all residents regardless of their state of origin...

That part of the campaign reached its finale on the evening of 31 March when a small team including Fayemi Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and a gubernatorial candidate in Kaduna State Nasir el-Rufai sat down to write Buhari's victory speech...

Poroma is a close ally of the Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi a founding member of the APC...

The formation of the APC two years ago – which combined Buhari's support base with the south-west's Action Congress of Nigeria and defecting Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi – made it a truly national party...

One Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State quit the PDP in 2013 to become a founding member of the APC...