Wisecracks, controversy, comedy and melodrama were in full effect on Thursday at the ministerial screening of Rotimi Amaechi.

The screening of the former governor of Rivers state, led to a brief commotion in the house as Peoples Democratic Party senators, refused to question him.

Amaechi was queried by only the All Progressives Congress senators, and he had the following to say.

Here are 25 quotes from Amaechi’s screening:

1. ‘If they send a girl to you to do something for her and you sleep with the girl, you are corrupt.’

2. ‘We refined governance and repositioned leadership under my tenure as Governor

3. ‘During my administration, we started over 500 primary schools and completed over 300. It’s there on records.’

4. ‘Under my leadership as Governor of Rivers State, we redefined governance – Rotimi Amaechi.’

5. ‘I am one of the few Nigerians to serve as speaker for 8years, at a time speakers were impeached regularly.’

6. ‘Whether or not I get confirmed, this would ho down in history books that I addressed the senate.’

7. ‘Education is must not only be qualitative but accessible.’

8. ‘Amaechi says one of the Rivers Senators was his roommate, the other was his Finance Commissioner.’

9. ‘All we did in the Governors Forum was to defend the rights of Nigerians’.

10. ‘The former president (GEJ) obviously did not like my idea of an accountable government.’

11. ‘There is no where the report indicted me. I have a copy here.’

12. ‘If there is one man that doesn’t like corruption. I am that man.’

13. ‘I was born to fight for my right.’

14. ‘I find it difficult to do what people want me to do, if it clashes with my principles.’

15. ‘If the Constitution says you are a woman, when you look like a man, you are a woman.’

16. ‘If legislators want the president to assign portfolios to nominees then it should be included in the constitution.’

17. ‘I believe there are resources in the Niger-Delta, that is why there is Militancy.’

18. ‘If I become the Minister for Niger Delta, the East – West Road will be first to be completed’.

19. ‘I want to be a minister now, after that I want to be a Senator.’

20. ‘If you invest in Agriculture & invest in Technology, you will hire as many workers as you can get.’

21. ‘We must improve on the Social Rights of the people; if you have peace you’ll have investors.’

22. ‘Why people don’t invest in Nigeria is because the cost of investment is higher than the profit.’

23. ‘I have never received bribe in my life. When a girl is brought to you and you sleep with her,You are Corrupt.’

24. ‘My government built 140 hospitals, we built 22 bridges. Our govt was the first to introduce Procurement Law at State level.’

25. ‘I personally enacted the education bill in Rivers State’.