Amaechi, Ben Bruce Fight Dirty On Twitter

Amaechi-Ben BruceThe Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, and the senator representing Bayelsa East on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ben Murray-Bruce, on Sunday engaged in a Twitter fight.

The Twitter fight was triggered by the senator’s response to excerpts of President Muhammadu Buhari’s interview with The Telegraph of London on Friday, where he accused Nigerians seeking asylum in Europe of being insincere and battering Nigeria’s image by engaging in criminal activities in their host countries.

While condemning the president’s comments, Mr. Bruce wrote on his twitter page:

Apparently sensing that the jibe was a veiled reference to the amount he purportedly spent on hosting Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka to a birthday dinner when he was governor of Rivers State, Mr.  Amaechi accused Senator Bruce of being a coward.

Responding to the Minister’s snide tweet, the senator brought up the recent Supreme Court judgment that upheld the election of Nyesom Wike as governor, rubbing it in the face of the ex-Rivers governor, whose efforts to enthrone his ally and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dakuku Peterside, as his successor, was fruitless.

Mr. Amaechi again reacted by accusing the Bayelsa senator of only finding his voice on Twitter while keeping mute during the debates in the Senate.