Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, isn’t buying the recent revelations made by Nasir El-Rufai about former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. And he’s not keeping quiet about it either.
Taking to social media platform X, Olayinka reacted sharply to El-Rufai’s comments that Amaechi—while still a serving PDP governor in 2011—bankrolled the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the party that later merged into the ruling APC.
According to El-Rufai, CPC was so financially strapped ahead of its 2011 convention that they didn’t know how to pull it off—until Amaechi stepped in with the needed funds.
“He asked how much was needed to hold the convention,” El-Rufai recalled, “and he gave the money. It was the money we used.”
But Olayinka was quick to call out what he sees as deep political irony.
“In that 2011, Rotimi Amaechi was a PDP governor. He sponsored CPC then,” Olayinka wrote. “The same Amaechi led the rebellion against President Goodluck Jonathan.”
For Olayinka, the revelation doesn’t just expose Amaechi’s political maneuvers—it points to a broader pattern of disloyalty and backdoor dealings that defined the political realignments of the past decade.
“That’s one of the people talking to you about Kolision,” he added pointedly, referring to the ADC-led coalition movement gaining traction in opposition politics.
The subtext of his post is clear: How do politicians who once undermined their own parties now position themselves as defenders of democracy and agents of national rescue?
The exchange has sparked renewed debate online about the role of political cross-funding, betrayal, and loyalty in Nigerian politics—especially ahead of future elections where coalitions and alliances may once again shape the country’s direction.
Whether you see Amaechi’s act as strategy, survival, or sabotage, one thing is certain: Nigerian politics never forgets—and neither do its commentators.
