2023: Rotimi Amaechi allegedly took ‘Ghana must go’ bags full of money to APC Chairman [Fact check]

The social media has been awashed on Monday with a picture showing ‘Ghana must go’ bags in between the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi who is a presidential aspirant and the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu.

The ‘Ghana must go’ bags allegedly, was said to have been a bribe offered to the National Chairman by Mr. Rotimi Amaechi when he visited him at his Keffi residence in Nasarawa State.

CAPITAL POST observed the post and picture being circulated on different social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, suggesting that Amaechi took bags of cash to the Party Chairman ahead of APC presidential primaries.

The post is currently eliciting different reactions with a Twitter user commented thus: “T’Challa, saying that the nation’s resources were being used to play politics.

“You see the loan Buhari and Amaechi have been incurring from China for railway stored in those 3 Ghana-Must-Go bags,” T’Challa tweeted.

“See Amaechi that said he does not like money. Behind them are bags of money which @ChibukeAmaechi brought to APC Chairman,” one Ogochukwu also wrote on Twitter.

CAPITAL POST can confirm that the Transport Minister paid a visit to the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu at his Keffi residence on Saturday, but the content of ‘Ghana must go’ bags cannot be confirmed as ‘cash’.

It could not be confirmed the said ‘Ghana must go” bags were brought to Adamu’s house by Amaechi.

It appears political observers could easily link events and tie it to political interests as party primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gathers momentum.

Another commentator, one Habeebah Suleiman, who claimed to be in the entourage of the minister during the visit, confirmed that Amaechi met with the APC chairman but did not stay more than 20 minutes and did not go with any bag of money.

In a social media post, Suleiman said, “Very unfair. I was there yesterday (Saturday) at the Keffi residence of the APC national Chairman the whole day. When Amaechi walked in, he just stayed for 20 minutes and left. Not even 1 security detail escorted him into the house and certainly he wasn’t accompanied by any Ghana Must Go bag, not even a “Man handbag.”

Daily Trust also reported that, a Google reverse image search on the photo generated on Twitter did not reveal where the photo originated from. Hence, it could not be established whether the picture was actually taken during the visit or doctored.

The picture is not also included among the ones that the party released after Amaechi’s visit.

When contacted, an APC official, who spoke off the record described the picture as “social media gibberish”, adding that, “There is nothing to it.”

Conclusion: Although, Ghana Must Go bags were seen in the picture of Amaechi and the APC national Chairman, there is no evidence to show that they contained money brought by the presidential aspirant.