By Tosin Olatokunbo
After losing the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential ticket to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the immediate past Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi, says he bears no grudges against his party.
Amaechi, a former rivers governor came second in the shadow election that produced the former Lagos Governor as APC flagbearer. Tinubu has since paid him a visit as part of the fence mending efforts to presidential aspirants and notable party stalwarts ahead the 2023 presidential election.
The former minister spoke on Saturday, in Port Harcourt during a reception organized by members of the party to welcome him home after the tension-soaked APC presidential primary in the nation’s capital, last month.
Amaechi who failed to return to the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari against speculations, told his supporters that the election is over and it’s time to come together to ensure APC victory next year.
He said: “we should know that we must go and vote for our party, no matter how angry you are, they have chosen, let’s go and vote for our party.
“For the stories you hear about the people who are gossiping how they are having meetings in France, let this be your own France. Vote for your party, don’t be afraid, just go home and do your work.
“Don’t be afraid, go home and work, that’s why I came, I came to thank you, I came to urge you to go home and work, let all of us be unit leaders, no more local government leaders, ward leaders. If you check in INEC, they are no longer announcing ward results, they are announcing unit results. So let go home and win our units and bring our units home.
“Those days of meeting, writing results have all gone, we must praise INEC, praise the National Assembly for reducing the level of rigging, where people write results and INEC will just announce, now it is almost gone,” the former minister said.
Meanwhile, many watchers of the minister and Rivers’ state politics said they are unsure of his next line of action after he failed to make the list of seven ministerial nominees President Buhari recently sent to the Senate for confirmation.
