By Kolawole Ojebisi
Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that he told President Bola Tinubu without equivocation that he will never work with him.
Amaechi further disclosed that he did not support Tinubu’s candidacy or work for his emergence as president despite belonging to the same ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former Rivers helmsman stressed that his undisguised opposition to Tinubu was informed by his conviction that the Nigerian helmsman lacks the capacity to govern the country.
He disclosed this during an event to mark his 60th birthday in Abuja on Saturday.
Amaechi said: “I told Tinubu in Yola, I will not support you; I will not work for you. I did not work for him; I did not vote for him. It was the issue of capacity.
“Some of us who are here are also those who vote on an ethnic or religious basis. Innocent, uneducated people are manipulated to vote based on ethnicity and religion — that’s why we are here.
“When we leave here, we go to plot to go and grab power; no Nigerian leader cares for you.
“You that voted Muslim/Muslim ticket, let the Muslim market come out now. For us in opposition, if you want us to remove this man, we can remove this man from power.
“We want to submit to the opposition if the opposition will take us out of this problem.
“They are weaponising poverty by stealing the money they should have used to build hospitals and schools.
“The benefit of the fuel subsidy removal is in their pockets.”
