Amaechi “Yabs” Rivers Politicians, Says They Can’t Stand Hunger

By Adesina Soyooye

In protest, There should have been no Election in Edo

Former two-time Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has literally dismissed Rivers State Politicians as cheap. He said they cannot stand hunger. He also dismissed them as a bunch of betrayers, which was why he described Rivers State as the capital of betrayals. He did not stop at that. He claimed that all the Rivers State Politicians passed through him.

The former two-time Governor of Rivers State, also, indirectly described Nigerians, especially the youths as docile. With the hunger in Nigeria, with the scary economic downturn, Amaechi said Nigerians are not reacting as they should in anger. The youths in particular.

For instance, he said that the Governorship Election in Edo State on September, 21, should not have held; that the people, in protest, should not have allowed that election to hold in protest of the suffering in the land.

Amaechi: “I expected more agitstion, especially, from the youths. I thought we would see protests in the streets, but it seems people are not expressing the kind of anger I expected.

“You cannot have a situation where a group of people are mismanaging resources and expect citizens to remain silent. I am truly baffled by the lack of action.”

On his assessment of Rivers State Politicians, Amaechi said called them hungry. He said:

“Name one Politician in Port Harcourt that didn’t pass through me. They can’t stand hunger. Rivers State has become the capital of betrayals. Just name one Politician who didn’t pass through me.”

Amaechi also claimed he had never encouraged thuggery in politics, and so never budgeted funds for it because he wants to make heaven.

Amaechi: “You will  not see me in any political meeting planning for thugs. You will not see me say this money is for thugs. I will not.

“My Priest tells me that anybody who dies in the course of that money, you will be held accountable. The society may not hold you accountable or send you to prison, but God will not allow you into Heaven because he will hold you accountable. I don’t want to miss Heaven.”

Amaechi has been quiet, speaks only sparingly since after he lost to President Bola Tinubu in the Presidential Primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

When he lost, the thinking was that President Muhammadu Buhari whose Presidential Campaign Director General he was in 2015 and 2019, would ask him to go back to his Ministerial position. Buhari never did. And Amaechi, perhaps, to show his disappointment in  the Presidential Primary Election, never took part in the Presidential Campaign for President Tinubu.