Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, has taken a swipe at Nasir El-Rufai over his recent revelations regarding Rotimi Amaechi’s alleged financial support for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) while still serving as a PDP governor in 2011.
El-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State and key figure in the emerging African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition, had earlier stated that Amaechi—then Governor of Rivers State under the PDP—funded CPC’s 2011 convention, helping the newly formed opposition party stay afloat at the time.
“Let me tell you people something: In 2011, when we were in CPC, we were to go to convention and we didn’t have money. Amaechi, then a PDP governor, somehow got to know and gave us the money. It was what we used for the 2011 convention,” El-Rufai said.
Olayinka Reacts: “That’s Who Is Talking to You About ‘Kolision’”
Reacting on X (formerly Twitter), Lere Olayinka condemned the revelation, highlighting what he described as Amaechi’s pattern of betrayal against his own party.
“In that 2011, Rotimi Amaechi was a PDP governor. He sponsored CPC then. The same Amaechi led the rebellion against President Goodluck Jonathan. That’s one of the people talking to you about Kolision,” Olayinka wrote.
His comments appear to take aim not just at Amaechi, but at opposition alliances like the ADC coalition, which some critics have referred to as a fragile “Kolision” (collision) rather than a true coalition.
Background: Amaechi’s Political Role
Rotimi Amaechi’s political journey has long drawn scrutiny. Though elected as a PDP governor in 2007, he was a key player in the 2013 formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and was instrumental in Goodluck Jonathan’s electoral defeat in 2015. His alleged support for CPC prior to that further fuels debate around political loyalty and opportunism.
As tensions rise ahead of the 2027 general elections, Olayinka’s remarks underscore lingering distrust between political actors—even within alliances seeking to challenge the ruling party.
