I Always Knew Tinubu Has No Capacity To Govern Nigeria – Rotimi Amaechi

By Gideon Njoku

“I warned APC not to ever invite me to their meetings and they still did not expel me”

A two-term Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday said he always knew President Bola Tinubu has no capacity to preside over the affairs of Nigeria.

Amaechi, Transportation Minister under the Muhammadu Buhari Administration, said this at the official unveiling of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Abuja.

Amaechi, also, resigned from the All Progressives Congress, APC, a Party whose foundation member he was after he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a Party under which he was a two-term Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and a two-term Governor.

Speaking after he defected to the ADC along with very prominent politicians across political parties, Amaechi said that the country is completely destroyed under Tinubu and that a change is required to save it. He, also, alleged that between the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  the 2027 elections is already hijacked.

The former Minister lamented that things have become so bad that most Nigerians are unable to afford to eat because there is no money to buy food.

Amaechi disclosed that he resigned from the APC  Tuesday night  and expressed surprise that even though he warned the APC not to send invitation to him for meetings, he was not expelled.

On whether the ADC is coming up just for the sake of change, he said:  “No, it is not about changing the government. If it is about changing the government, there is no need of changing the government, it is about changing Nigeria.

“Nigeria is completely destroyed. People can’t eat. People can’t buy food. There’s no money to buy food. Everything is gone. Inflation is at its peak. And the Federal Government is busy going around trying to hijack the election. INEC is helping them to hijack the election.

“No, no, no. What must happen here is that we must start not just a party, but a movement, it must be a movement that brings in Nigerians to, on their own, take over government, not us.

“I left APC last night. I never attended one meeting. Last time they invited me I warned them. I said, if you invite me to any meeting anymore… In fact, I was surprised that I wasn’t even expelled because I warned them in writing, don’t even invite me to any meeting. You can’t be in a club where majority of people are stealing and you don’t say anything.

“I have never believed that Tinubu is a material to govern the country. I have never, because now, people want Buhari to come back. What happens in Nigeria is that when a new government takes over, it becomes worse than the previous government that makes people say let the previous government come back.

“People are asking for Buhari because things were better during Buhari’s administration. Dollar was I think ₦460 or five hundred and something, now a dollar is N1,580, that is more than one hundred percent.”

“Whether it’s a deliberate government policy or not, any government that does not take into consideration the people you are governing is not a policy. President Tinubu said he is not here to make Nigerians happy.

“I have the right to be ambitious, I am not over ambitious.”