{"id":19772,"date":"2017-12-08T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=19772"},"modified":"2017-12-08T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:46:08","slug":"amaechi-lagossays-wont-speak-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/amaechi-lagossays-wont-speak-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi In Lagos,Says I Won\u2019t Speak To Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yiv4967438088yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512672667408\" dir=\"ltr\">Tayo Olanipekun<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv4967438088yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512672756723\" dir=\"ltr\">Minister of Transport, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on Thursday, met Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State for about one hour, at the Lagos House, but declined interaction with journalists for fear of being misquoted.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv4967438088yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512672908124\" dir=\"ltr\">Amaechi, who drove himself in a Black Lexus SUV,\u00a0 with number plate Lagos GGE 315 DN, arrived Alausa at about 10.59 a.m. and went straight into a meeting with the governor.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv4967438088yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512672961584\" dir=\"ltr\">At about 11.57 a.m., Amaechi emerged\u00a0 from the meeting into the waiting hands of\u00a0the Lagos State Governor&#8217;s Office Correspondents, who had arrived the Lagos House about three hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv4967438088yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512673001862\" dir=\"ltr\">When asked for an interview, the Minister, accompanied by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, and other state officials declined, saying he was not ready to be misquoted again.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As he headed towards the SUV he had driven into\u00a0the\u00a0venue, the minister said: &#8220;I will not speak, so that you\u00a0 will not misquote me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The journalists, who were taken aback by the Minister\u2019s action, wondered where and when he was misquoted.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv4967438088yMail_cursorElementTracker_1512672665463\" dir=\"ltr\">Alhough there was no official\u00a0 briefing about what was discussed, the menace of articulated vehicles parking on major highways in Lagos metropolis which had continued to defy all efforts at resolution by the state government, it is believed, might have been top on the agenda of discourse.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tayo Olanipekun Minister of Transport, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on Thursday, met Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State for about one hour, at the Lagos House, but declined interaction with journalists for fear of being misquoted. 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