The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the attempt by immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative and dangerous.
Amaechi had in a recent interview blamed the youth in a recent interview for not protesting against hardship in the country.
His call for protest, however, did not go down well with the ruling party who said Amaechi has been a leechy dependant on state resources almost all of his adult life.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka in a statement issued Friday said one would expect Amaechi to keep busy trying to solve the crippling crisis in Rivers state that he once governed.
He said instead, he has chosen to stoke anarchy on a national scale, adding that weaponising protest and exploiting citizen’s economic discomfort for selfish political objectives is irresponsible and unpatriotic.
The ruling party, therefore, urged Nigerians to dismiss the call to anarchy by Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen and to remain patient and continue to support President Bola Tinubu’s bold effort to transform our country’s economy once and for all.
Morka noted: “Amaechi’s comments are insensitive, god-awful and unpatriotic, coming from one of Nigeria’s longest serving and highest ranking political freeloaders – a two-term Speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly, a two-term Governor, and a two-term Minister of Transport.
“For almost all of his adult life, Amaechi has been a leechy dependant on state resources, a voracious beneficiary of official patronage, and a leading participant in the generational devastation of our country’s economy. Attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative and dangerous.
“If those in power “steal money” as Amaechi mischievously alleged, how come he can’t afford “to buy diesel” barely two years after “stealing” for over 24 years in power as Speaker, Governor and Minister?”
Morka stressed that the only real anger that Amaechi and his fellow tribesmen of naysayers of the likes of Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, must feel is that they are not in the saddle of government today.
He said that was a decision made by Nigeria’s ultimate political authority — the electorate.
The spokesperson pointed out that Nigerians are highly perceptive, discerning, demure, and mindful that economic discomforts associated with the administration’s inevitable reforms are transient and would pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which are already beginning to manifest.
Morka maintained that Nigerians would not be cajoled into taking back through street violence what they handed to the administration through the ballot, as Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen would wish.
He added: “It is nauseating to think that these naysayer tribesmen who did absolutely nothing to improve the economy or living conditions for Nigerians while they were in office, now pontificate, endlessly, about what and how things should be done but didn’t and couldn’t do while in power.”