My task today is to
compare and contrast two illustrious sons of the Niger Delta Region. They are
Rotimi Amaechi and Godswill Akpabio. Maybe I shouldn’t have added
‘’illustrious’’ because they have illustrated very little outside
self-aggrandizement.
Amaechi literally came
from nowhere to become so rich and powerful. Before 1999, his entire life and
livelihood had been defined by Dr. Peter Odili, who was Rivers
State governor between 1999 and 2007
and owns Pamo Hospital where Amaechi had worked as a
public relations officer before his astronomic rise to Speakership of the
Rivers State House of Assembly.
*Amaechi and Akpabio |
Akpabio may be a little deeper, but I shall
return to him presently.