ENGR. HABIB of KOGI

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THE 66TH NBA ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE: WHEN ATIKU AND AMAECHI’S RECORDS TOOK THE STAND

By Sopriala Membere (@SoprialaMembere) Columnist, Scholar and Member CRA Advocacy Network
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A leader may summon the finest speechwriters, commission the most elegant manifesto, and fill the air with promises of a future no one can yet interrogate. But there is one credential that cannot be outsourced or manufactured: a governing record.

That was the defining distinction the African Democratic Congress ticket of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Rt Hon RotimiAmaechi brought to the 2026 Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. In a Nigerian political climate awash with recycled rhetoric, consultant-crafted manifestos, and promises that evaporate once power is secured, they came armed with something far more compelling and impossible to counterfeit: a demonstrable record of governance.

The conference itself, held in the host city where Amaechi once governed, provided an almost poetic setting for this reckoning.

Here was a man standing before his peers: lawyers, jurists, and citizens of a state he once governed and had transformed being challenged not on his rhetoric but on his record.

When Omoyele Sowore accused him of building “a rail line that went nowhere,” Amaechi did not retreat into abstraction. He pointed to the Lagos-Ibadan and Abuja-Kaduna railways, to the roads and primary schools of Rivers State, and the hundreds of model schools equipped with ICT centres and libraries that his administration constructed.

He did not ask the audience to trust his vision; he asked them to verify his past. “Judge us by our achievements,” he insisted, cutting through the noise of political posturing with a demand that evidentiary standards should be the only criteria.

This is the signature of the ADC ticket: a governance philosophy anchored only on the verifiable. Amaechi’s challenge to the Nigerian electorate: “Assess us by our last performance and choose; not just vote because you are from Ikwerre or Omoku, Hausa, or Yoruba, Ijaw or Igbo.”  This is not merely a campaign slogan. It is an epistemological stance, a belief that political legitimacy must be earned through documented competence rather than ethnic affinity or populist charisma.

But the NBA conference revealed something deeper than a defence of past records. It illuminated the philosophical architecture of the ADC’s approach to Nigeria’s most pressing economic question: the subsidy dilemma. While Peter Obi defended the necessity of subsidy removal, arguing that mismanagement of proceeds should not be the reason for not removing it, and while Sowore maintained his long-standing opposition to any removal, Amaechi staked out a position that was neither the shock therapy of Tinubu nor the ideological purity of the activist turn politician. “We will not remove subsidy because the poor in Nigeria need to be subsidised instead of the rich,” he declared. “We are already subsidising (the rich) them with waivers. We have a duty to return power to the people.”

This is not the language of a politician pandering to the gallery. It is the language of a man who has governed through economic cycles, who has seen the difference between subsidising productivity and subsidising consumption, and who understands that the Nigerian poor do not benefit from the abstract efficiencies of market fundamentalism.

Amaechi’s position aligns seamlessly with the Atiku Economic Recovery Plan, which proposes a production subsidy. A subsidythat follows the barrel from crude allocation through refining to the Nigerian consumer, capped, budgeted, audited, and designed to disappear as domestic production capacity grows.  

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"Voting is half the job. Defending the result is how the ADC will win." - Amaechi

HE Rotimi Amaechi breaks down some essential steps to protect our victory! 👇

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This young lady left money in her Access Bank Nigeria account to go abroad and make money. She came back from Dubai, where she worked, only to find her money in Access was gone.

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HE Rotimi Amaechi hosted the ADC 36 State House of Assembly Candidates Forum, led by the Forum’s Chairman, Hon. Nkwor Chukwutem of Ndokwa East Constituency (Delta State), for consultations on the election campaign.

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Everything is about to change for every Nigerian who has suffered too much.

​29 May 2027:
"Subsidy is Back."
— President Atiku Abubakar.

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"When fuel prices rise, transport fares rise; when transport rises, food prices follow. When food prices soar, families suffer. I will break that wretched chain that has defined our national life in the nearly four years of Tinubu’s presidency."

​— His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC)

[ENGR. HABIB of KOGI @YOGA__2023]

LIESSS EVERYWHERE

PETER MIGHT BE A GOOD INDIVIDUAL BUT A BAD LEADER

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

Peter Obi did lot deny the fact that Doctors were on strike for 13 month in Anambra under him, but he has cooked up another lies to cover that failure of his.......

As at the time of the event in 2012 when they called off the strike the reason was well documented and Government did not deny it. In fact, they called off the strike because Government reached agreement with them. Suddenly he had cooked up another lie on that because @sowore brought the issue up in the open...

Government-employed Doctors demanded that Anambra State adopt and implement the Federal CONMESS salary scale, which had been approved for medical practitioners nationwide, PETER OBI REFUSED.

Obi said the fact that Anambra people as a whole didn't die in those 13 months meant Medical Doctors in Govt Hospitals were not effective🤣🤣🤣
Simply put, since the entire Nigerians were not wiped off whenever Doctors were on strike during Obasanjo, Yaradua, Jonathan, Buhari or Tinubu, it means Medical Doctors on strike were irrelevant to the Nation, that's why all of us didn't die.

Then, he went ahead with a big lie....He said Anambra State has the highest number of Schools of Nursing, Midwifery than any other State in Nigeria today due to his decision.....

Lagos State has the highest number of approved nursing and midwifery institutions in Nigeria, around 30.

Oyo, Kaduna, and Imo have far more than Anambra in the past and as we speak. Anambra has around 12-14. Why this man dey always lie openly with data?

[Sopriala Membere🇻🇦⚓ @SoprialaMembere]

@Momopee2 Over 17 trillion naira spent on energy security and under-recovery aka subsidy since 2023 till date, yet people are suffering.

No be Egypt we dey so? Please!!!

NNPC books tell a diffrent story. I have even downloaded and reviewed parts of it myself.

[Anucha Brain Rotimi (jnr) @brain_anucha]

Proven Leadership

ADC Vice-Presidential Candidate, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi CON, is a man of experience, capacity, and a proven track record of service.

From Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, to two-term Governor of Rivers State, and later Minister of Transportation, Amaechi has demonstrated leadership across the legislative and executive arms of government.

Nigeria needs leaders with experience, competence, courage, and a record of delivery—not just promises.

Amaechi: Experience. Capacity. Proven Track Record.

#RotimiAmaechi #ADC #AtikuAmaechi #2027 #ProvenLeadership #Capacity

[ENGR. HABIB of KOGI @YOGA__2023]

When will Nigeria change??

ME:

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"The Constitution has made provision for young Nigerians, but until you stop worshipping politicians and start holding them accountable, nothing will change."

-- HE Rotimi Amaechi at the NBA Conference yesterday.

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On to the next task. No time to waste. We have an election to win.

#Atiku2027
#RotimiAmaechi
#AtikuAmaechi
#ADC

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HOW THE ATIKU-AMAECHI TICKET HAS SHIFTED THE DEBATE FROM WHAT CANDIDATES CLAIM THEY WILL DO TO WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE

By: Piriye Amachree Esq (@AmachreeXIV )
Member CRA Advocacy Network
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When Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was announced as the ADC Vice Presidential candidate, one narrative with which his detractors consoled themselves was that he had been chosen for his financial capacity because, supposedly, he lacked the political capacity to win elections.

By that logic, the appointment of the Governor of Delta State as Treasurer of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, and the Executive Chairman of the NRS as head of its fundraising committee, must have little to do with political prowess and everything to do with the positions they occupy. The irony is difficult to miss. Yet while the political implications of such appointments may be lost on their proponents, their consequences are ultimately borne by all Nigerians.

Since his emergence, Amaechi has helped the ADC showcase the extraordinary possibilities of an Atiku Abubakar presidency and, more importantly, drive the conversation towards an election based on records, ideas and competence.

Few platforms could have been more fitting for this than the NBA Annual General Conference—The largest gatherings of lawyers on the African continent.

Despite the painful loss of his mother, the mourning period and the preparations for her burial, Amaechi stood in for H.E. Atiku Abubakar GCON at the opening plenary themed “Politics, People and Nigeria’s Future”.

He spoke with the depth of someone who understands the critical intersection between law, politics and governance. More importantly, he did not resort to empty rhetoric; he grounded his arguments in the record of his previous service.
Responding to a snide remark from Yele Sowore, he pointed out that the roads, public infrastructure and two primary schools around the conference venue were delivered by his administration. On insecurity, he argued that the solution must go beyond physical policing to what he described as economic policing: targeted government spending that creates jobs, improves living standards and reduces the economic incentives for crime.

Amaechi also used the opportunity to explain Atiku Abubakar’s proposed approach to subsidy. The objective, as presented, is not to subsidise corruption but to subsidise production—by making crude available to local refiners at discounted rates and reducing taxes, levies, duties and charges on critical equipment required for domestic manufacturing.

The policy is intended to achieve two things:
I.provide immediate relief to consumers by reducing the cost of essential goods and services,
II.while stimulating local production, creating jobs and ultimately expanding the government’s revenue base.

But perhaps the most compelling part of Amaechi’s intervention was his emphasis on the Nigerianness of the ADC ticket.

Both Atiku Abubakar and Amaechi have records that speak to merit over ethnic or religious considerations. To reinforce this point, Amaechi cited the diversity of the heads of agencies under the Federal Ministry of Transportation during his tenure.

At a time when our politics has become increasingly defined by ethnic and religious fault lines, Nigeria needs leaders who see the country as one indivisible whole—not through the narrow prism of tribe or faith, but through the broader lens of citizenship, competence and shared destiny.

That was Amaechi’s central message at the NBA conference: judge candidates by their records, ideas and capacity to govern—not by ethnic loyalty, sentimental noise or propaganda.

The message was delivered to the lawyers and dignitaries in that hall, but it was ultimately meant for the entire nation.

Nigerians, the choice is yours. The ball is in your court.

[ENGR. HABIB of KOGI @YOGA__2023]

Alibaba and the 40 thieves😂😃

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“I am the only politician on this panel who has successfully tackled insecurity.”

— H.E. Rotimi Amaechi at the NBA Annual General Conference today.

[Tamunokeipiriye @AmachreeXIV]

At the state and Federal levels, for proper context. The records are there, go and verify!

[ENGR. HABIB of KOGI @YOGA__2023]

😂😃

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

"Where are Rivers lawyers, let them take Sowore around and show him what I did as a former Governor. Moreover, Sowore when politicians are talking, close your mouth"

-Rotimi Amaechi to Sowore today at the NBA AGC 2026 in Rivers State.

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HE Rotimi Amaechi representing HE Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) at the NBA's 66th Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt earlier today. 📸

#NBAAGC2026

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THE 66th NBA ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE

​ADC Vice-Presidential Candidate HE Rotimi Amaechi arrives at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt for the Nigerian Bar Association's 66th Annual General Conference. He is representing ADC Presidential Candidate HE Atiku Abubakar (@Atiku) at the presidential aspirants' session themed "Politics, People, and Nigeria’s Future: Forget the Slogans."

[FS YUSUF @FSYusuff]

There is no functional interstate highway in Nigeria.

Na god go punish APC