“I Was Severally Marked For Elimination In The Last One Year” – Amaewfule,  Speaker RSHA

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Martins Amaewfule, has said  he is grateful to God for sparing his life despite several human attempts to eliminate him.

At the occasion of the thanksgiving service to mark his 52nd birthday held at the All Saints Anglican Church, Eliozu, Obio/Akpor Local Council of the State, Amaewfule relieved several attempts at kidnapping and assassinating him in the past years.

Particularly, the Speaker, who alongside 27 other State Lawmakers just returned from a six-month suspension, owing to the Emergency Rule imposed on the State, recounted how  he survived an assassination plot in 2008.

“I am not just marking another birthday, but acknowledging that many people had planned to take my life in the last one year, but God didn’t allow them .

“Some of you were here in 2008 when the officiating Minister was preaching right here during Sunday Service,on that faithful day.

” I didn’t know that some people who came to kidnap me  were also present during the church service.

” After Service, they tactically followed me to my residence, tied up my security guard and abducted me, and took me to a forest where they held me hostage for five days .

“They placed thorns under my feet ,and inflicted several injuries on my head and body in the process of moving me from one hideout to another within the forest.

“They fed me with biscuits throughout the period even as I almost bled to death. When God does things for you, it is important to appreciate him for more”, Amaewfule stated.

According to him, his life has, in the past one year been in danger, owing to some obvious reasons.

But in all, he said he remains grateful to God for seeing him through the near-death situations.

The Source reports that Amaewfule, an acknowledged crony of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, was a central figure in the political brickbats that culminated in the declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State, by President Bola Tinubu on March 18, 2025. It was lifted on September 18, 2025.