APC blasts Amaechi for ‘inciting anarchy’ against Tinubu govt. 

…Says ‘your call mischievous, irresponsible, unpatriotic’

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted a former Minister of Transportation in the last administration and former Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, for allegedly inciting anarchy against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

Amaechi in a recent interview berated Nigerian youths for not protesting against the “high cost of living” in the country.

Reacting to the comment through a statement issued Friday in Abuja by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the ruling party described Amaechi’s remark as “irresponsible and unpatriotic.”

According to the statement, 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.” 

The statement read, “For almost all of his adult life, Amaechi, has been a leachy 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?  

“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 the government today.  

“But that was a decision made by Nigeria’s ultimate political authority – the electorate. Nigerians are highly perceptive, discerning, demure, and mindful that economic discomforts associated with the administration’s inevitable reforms are transient and will pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which are already beginning to manifest. Nigerians will 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.” 

It read further, “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.  

“It’s as though they only regain their senses and discover their talents for governance when they are out of power. A tribe of naysayers, is what they are, who never see any good, only gloom, filled with bile and disdain for the determined strides of the APC-administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to transform our country’s economy for the benefit of present and future generations of Nigerians.

“One would expect Amaechi to keep busy trying to solve the crippling crisis in Rivers state that he once governed. Instead, he has chosen to stoke anarchy on a national scale. Weaponising protest and exploiting citizen’s economic discomfort for selfish political objectives, as these partisan tribesmen are doing, is irresponsible and decidedly unpatriotic.”

The ruling party urged Nigerians to “dismiss the call to anarchy by Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen and to remain patient and continue to support President Tinubu’s bold effort to transform our country’s economy once and for all.”