Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed the conversation that once passed between him and President Bola Tinubu while the latter was the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in 2023.
Amaechi had come a distant second at the APC presidential primary while Tinubu clinched the party ticket and went on to win the presidency.
Speaking at his 60th birthday lecture themed: ‘Weaponisation of Poverty as a Means of Underdevelopment,’ the former governor, a prominent member of the gang up in process to dethrone Tinubu in 2027 election, said while the President was APC presidential candidate, he told him in clear terms that he was not going to vote for him.
“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,” the former minister disclosed.
He attributed the country’s lot to poor choices driven by wrong sentiments on the part of leaders, saying: “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.”
