(Pictures Culled from riverspolitics.com)
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State survived an accident on Tuesday.Newsdiaryonline.com learnt that a car driven by a man suddenly veered off its lane and rammed into vehicles in Amaechi’s convoy.
A top official who confirmed the incident told Newsdiaryonline .com that no life was lost.The source said one of the vehicles hit by the strange car was the “back up car for the chief of staff .”
“There was an accident.A car veered off and hit the governor’s convoy” said an official who said “it was just an accident”,while resisting any attempt to read politics into it ab initio.
“You know ,the man(Amaechi) doesn’t talk any how.He will like to see evidence before reaching any conclusion”,said the official who strove to play down the incident.
The governor has been having a running battle with his party PDP before and after his reelection as chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.
The party strangely suspended him after his reelection as NGF chairman .He has threatened to quit PDP if he is suffocated.
He is equally having a battle with the Commissioner of Police,Joseph Mbu in the state.In fact Amaechi has called on the Inspector General of Police MD Abubakar to transfer the CP from Rivers State.
There has been no official statement on the accident from River State at the time of writing this story.
