Former minister of transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has called on Nigerians to choose the right candidates to govern them in the 2023 general elections.
He said delegates who sold their votes at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary are regretting their actions, noting that money is not the solution to the problem in Nigeria.
Speaking in Port Harcourt over the weekend at an event to mark the 60th birthday of Eugene Ogu, general overseer of Abundant Life Evangel Mission, the former Rivers governor, however, said that the “ordinary” citizen is the problem of the country.
According to him, “I don’t believe that is the solution to Nigeria’s problem — giving money. I hope you know. I give you N10 million now and when it finishes, what happens? The solution to Nigeria’s problem is that all of you must rise.
“God should save the ordinary Nigerian, because they are the problem. Those who voted at the APC primary, who are they? The ordinary Nigerian.
“The small money they got solved their immediate problems. Now ‘oh we made a mistake’; ‘we didn’t make a mistake’. We are hearing different things. Pray for the leadership of the country, but also pray that ordinary Nigerians choose the right person to govern.”
On the recent concerns raised over the identity of the clerics and alleged Bishops that attended the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as the APC vice-presidential candidate.
Amaechi, while elaborating on the Nigerian problem, noted that the persons in question “may not be bishops, but they are Christians.”
He said, “Those Bishops you saw (at the unveiling of Shettima) may not be Bishops but they are Christians. Pray for the ordinary Nigerians. Please vote for APC, I am not joking. May God make you vote for the right candidate that will change Nigeria.”
Recall that the immediate past transportation minister had polled the second highest votes of 316 at the APC presidential primaries in Abuja, behind the party’s flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, who polled a thousand votes.
