The Minister of Transportation,
Mr Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday called on Nigerian youths to vote President
Muhammadu Buhari in for a second term to ensure a better future for them.
Amaechi, who was a guest at the
2018 Future Awards in Lagos, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the
future of the youth was at stake if they failed to support the incumbent
administration.
He warned that voting for
candidates who had no good intention for the growing population of young
Nigerians would be tantamount to a plunge into a bleak future.
“I only have a simple but candid
advice to Nigerian youths and that is: come 2018 elections, they should vote
for Buhari because their future is at stake.
“I became Speaker of the Rivers
State House of Assembly at the age of 34, I became the governor at the age of
42 and I became a minister of the Federal Republic at 50.
“We cannot afford to truncate our
future for a piece of meat; we should be watchful because those people who
stole our money and commonwealth are regrouping to come back to perpetrate
their act.
“These people want to continue
from where they were stopped from looting the treasury, when oil was sold at
between 110 and 120 U.S. dollars,’’ he said.
The minister said that some of
those parading themselves as political aspirants had “corruption cases hanging
on their necks’’, adding that the youths must be wary of such candidates.
“If those that have stolen our
money are yet to be jailed, it is because there is a process we have to follow
and that is the rule of law; most of them have cases in court.
“The court will deliver judgment
on them, as we cannot be the judge and prosecutor in the cases. The important
thing is that they are being prosecuted.
“We are building a legacy for the
youth and that is what we want to continue, I have gone through elections as a
young citizen and I know what this means to the youth.
“The economy is growing steadily
and by the end of the year, we would have achieved a two-per-cent growth and by
next year, we hope to arrive at six per cent,” he said.
Besides, Amaechi said that the
Buhari-administration would continue accord priority to the country’s rail
transport development project, adding that it was a massive project involving
about 6,000 km of railways.
“It is critical that we conclude
the rail project embarked upon by this administration; it involves about
6,000km of rail lines and an estimated investment of about 36 billion dollars.
“Our government don’t have that
kind of money to face it all now but we will eventually get there, and we will
achieve the desired result with the available resources, he said.
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Please let somebody help me ask Rotimi Amaechi,is it now the future of the youths of this country is at stake?Let nobody decieve the youths of this,their future had been at stake since after Awolowo,Azikwe,Sadauna and the likes.Let no Amaechi tell you that your future will be at stake if you don't vote for Buhari?Know that your future had been at stake and will continue to be at stake if we allow these criminals who disguise themselve as politicians to rule you.
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