Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has been part and parcel of the Nigerian political system since the defunct third republic where he cut his teeth as the Secretary of the National Republican Convention (NRC) in his native Ikwerre local government council at the tender age of 25.

Since then, there has been no looking back as he went on to serve as the Special Assistant to the then Governor Rufus Ada-George on student matters and as a personal assistant to the then Deputy Governor Peter Odili who was his political godfather as the latter brought him into politics after Amaechi served him as the Public Relations Officer of his PAMO Clinic in the late 1980's. He later went on to serve on the board of directors of the state owned Ri...