{"id":238319,"date":"2025-12-17T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/id-rather-be-a-minister-amaechi-explains-why-he-wont-deputise-anyone-in-2027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:42:32","slug":"id-rather-be-a-minister-amaechi-explains-why-he-wont-deputise-anyone-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/id-rather-be-a-minister-amaechi-explains-why-he-wont-deputise-anyone-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019d Rather Be a Minister \u2013 Amaechi Explains Why He Won\u2019t Deputise Anyone in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"154\">Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has vowed not to serve as a running mate to any presidential candidate in the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"156\" data-end=\"380\">There has been speculation that the former governor might deputise former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who is reportedly positioning himself as the likely presidential flagbearer of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"514\">However, speaking at an event in Abuja, Amaechi dismissed the notion, insisting that he is \u201ctoo presidential\u201d to be anyone\u2019s vice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"516\" data-end=\"696\">\u201cI will not be vice president to anybody. There are too many reasons why I won\u2019t be vice president to anybody. The first reason is that I\u2019m too presidential to be vice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"863\">Amaechi, who is also eyeing the ADC presidential ticket, argued that the problem with the office of the vice president in Nigeria is not ceremonial but structural.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"1036\">According to the former Rivers State governor, the office is deliberately designed to be subordinate, often powerless, and dependent on the disposition of the president.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1143\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cWe will quarrel. Instead of that, I would rather be a minister than be a vice president,\u201d Amaechi added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has vowed not to serve as a running mate to any presidential candidate in the 2027 general elections. There has been speculation that the former governor might deputise former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who is reportedly positioning himself as the likely presidential flagbearer of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Rotimi-Amaechi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}