{"id":160154,"date":"2025-04-22T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/i-wore-one-shirt-for-4-years-my-family-couldnt-feed-amaechi"},"modified":"2025-04-22T23:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:48:41","slug":"i-wore-one-shirt-for-4-years-my-family-couldnt-feed-amaechi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-wore-one-shirt-for-4-years-my-family-couldnt-feed-amaechi","title":{"rendered":"I wore one shirt for 4 years, my family couldn\u2019t feed \u2013 Amaechi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has said that he wore a shirt and a trouser for nearly four years due to poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The former Governor of Rivers State said that growing up in the streets of Port Harcourt was difficult as his family could not even feed.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi, a former two-term Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, two-term governor and two-term Minister of Transportation, said this in an interview with Daily Sun where he spoke majorly of personal issues rather than politics.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI grew up in Port Harcourt. Poverty was everywhere, we couldn\u2019t feed, you can hardly eat three times a day, and you can hardly change your cloths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, when I tell people that I wore a shirt and a trouser for nearly four years, most people don\u2019t believe it, but my classmates will tell you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going for a reunion in Umuahia and I usually yab my classmates when we meet at reunions. I would say you see, one of you could have been Mrs Amaechi now, maybe if you had agreed by the time we were in school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut because we were very poor, we didn\u2019t have money to feed, we didn\u2019t have cloths to wear, you people didn\u2019t give us attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou people didn\u2019t think we have bright future. But one thing you don\u2019t know about men is that they fight to be relevant. So, for me, I am as simple as life can give.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi, who was a Chairman of Nigerian Governors\u2019 Forum for eight years, came second in the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential election primary prior to the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has said that he wore a shirt and a trouser for nearly four years due to poverty. The former Governor of Rivers State said that growing up in the streets of Port Harcourt was difficult as his family could not even feed. 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