Thursday, July 3, 2025 - Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has resigned from the ruling party, APC.
Speaking to newsmen at the coalition meeting in Abuja,
Amaechi said he resigned from the APC on Tuesday night, July 1. He said that
Nigeria has been completely destroyed and requires a complete change.
Amaechi, who was a past governor of Rivers State, also
accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC of colluding to hijack the forthcoming elections in
the country.
He expressed surprised that he was not expelled from the
party after he warned them not to send invitation to him for meetings.
Asked why he decided support not to support the ruling
party, he said
“No, it’s
not about changing the government, if it is about changing the government,
there is no need of changing the government, it’s 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.”
He further stated;
“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.”
Assessing the Tinubu-led government, Amaechi said
“I have
never believed that Tinubu is a material to govern the country, I have never,
because now, people want (Muhammadu) 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 one
thousand five hundred and eighty, that is more than one hundred percent.”
Reminded also that some people may argue that the exchange
rate may be a deliberate government policy, the former Minister said
“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.”
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