By Richard Onazi
Chibuike Rotimi the son of Amaechi is not a very happy man. He is queasy and beating about the bush. He is always unsure of his direction, always afraid of his destiny. He has failed in his usual vocation, committing political self-distraught this time, so he is an extremely very sad man.
Rotimi want to be heard once more, unfortunately, this time, he is no longer talking, he has lost his composure, and his followership and his political game is over.
This game he has been playing did not start from today. It is just that few people noticed, but those that noticed refused to do anything about it, but paid dearly for it.
Rotimi has been a betrayer all his life, he even betrayed his parents while in the womb. He is not just chronic but ardent, sophisticated and born-with-it betrayer.
It is said, and it is true, that Amaechi has a pathological attachment to betraying people. A senile attachment, a memory repression, dissociative starts and other cognitive control processes’ failures of his childhood days, leading to an involved in adult sequelae of childhood trauma, so he readily goes about betraying anybody close to him.
Betrayal is always a breach of trust. Trust as reliance within collaboration. Amaechi therefore does not believe in loyalty neither does he work collaboratively. To him that attitude and associated pattern of conduct that is constituted by an individual’s taking something’s side does not exist. He has a pathological affinity to entitlements, an excessively possessive attitude, and can never be committed. He is also full of himself, egoistic, with a strange exclusivity of knowledge within every relationship.
Rotimi Ameachi showed his first finger when Peter Odili made him the Governor of Rivers State and the man became his first casualty.
Sir Peter Odili groomed him, mentored him, beginning from making him the Secretary of the National Republican Convention in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State during the Transition to Nigerian’s Third Republic. Not done with him, he transformed him into the Special Assistant to the Deputy Governor of Rivers State. He believed and trusted him so much and took him completely into confidence, making him in 1996, the Rivers State’s Secretary of the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) Caretaker Committee during the Transition Programme of General Sani Abacha.
He subsequently made him a Member of the Rivers State House of Assembly in 1999 and Speaker of the House of Assembly. Amaechi was elected chairman of Nigeria’s Conference of Speakers of State Assemblies. In May 2003, he was re-elected speaker.
Unfortunately, after leveraging on Governor Peter Odili clout and wide political Kingdom, he subtly, like the Biblical Absalom usurped the relationship between the Executive and Legislative Arms of the Government of Rivers State, and launched a campaign against the State Government, viciously and verbally attacking the image of the State Governor, in an effort to succeed Odili as Governor in 2007. The rest of the story is on record.
Not done, Ameachi swiftly sold his brother, Goodluck Jonathan for a miserable plate of porridge in November 2013, decamping alongside five members of the G-7 to the then new opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) where he shamelessly became the Director General of Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential Campaign working directly against his own brother Goodluck Jonathan, who was also at the same time vying for the position of the President.
His pervasive inclination to betraying those close to him, will soon lead him unfortunately, to sell his own very wife without a blink of an eye.
He does not understand gratitude. His betrayal is often deliberate. Always hurtful. Breaking confidence and trust. He has no object of betrayal or even a cause.
So his recent tirade against President Tinubu is well understood. Ameachi is looking for who to sell. Like Judas Iscariot. If Judas case of the betrayal of Jesus Christ is an extreme one, then Amaechi Rotimi’s case is even more extreme. David, in his Psalm 55 understood this well “If an enemy were insulting me I could endure it, if a foe were raising himself against me I could hide from him…but it is you a man like myself, my companion, my close friend.” Psalm 55 v12-13.
Unfortunately for him this time, he is not in the position to sell President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. So he wants to instigate the youths to do the work for him.
This is a classical case of shame and betrayal. He has suddenly become a common citizen after all his atrocities as a member of the ruling class.
In John 2 v24, we read that Jesus “would not entrust himself” to a group of believers. So also will President Tinubu not entrust himself to Chibuike Rotimi the son of Amaechi
Judas Iscariot as recorded in Luke 22:4-6, 22:47-48, was always vulnerable to the rich and powerful, and pretty much undoubtedly also betraying himself. Like Amaechi, he did it for the money and because he thought it would help him to be part of the ‘in-crowd’. To feel accepted and lauded as the one who dealt with a troublemaker. He sniffed fame and fortune and it smelt good. But he soon felt the consequences and it cost him his life.
However, the youths are wiser and ready. They have realized the importance of breaking Amaechi’s cycles of suspiciousness and hyper-vigilance. They can and will no longer fall easy prey to the misguided pillory and subtle mechanization of selfish politician, who after losing out in the power equation will seek for the support of the youths to ride back.
Chibuike Rotimi the son of Amaechi, the youths said, “We will not listen to you. We are wiser than you.”
Richard Onazi wrote this piece from the United Kingdom.
