Between Rotimi Amaechi and Godswill Akpabio
By Abraham Ogbodo 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 and Akpabio 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. Akpabio may be a little deeper, but I shall return to him presently. Both Amaechi and Akpabio were born in the early 60s, went to universities in different locations within the Niger Delta region; Port Harcourt and Calabar which are about 250 kilometres apart, and studied English and law respectively. Two of them have been active pl...