Rotimi Amaechi, director-general
of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, has reportedly described
Nigeria as hopeless, saying the only way for the country to make progress is
for “everybody to be killed”.
According to an audio released by
Phrank Shaibu, an aide of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Amaechi, who is minister of transportation, said this in
a conversation with some journalists.
The minister was heard saying
there would be a university in his village after the plans to build one in
Daura, hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina state, have been
concluded.
Amaechi is from Ubima in Ikwerre
local government area of Rivers state.
NigerianEye could not
independently verify the audio. It is unclear when the conversation took place
but it has been generating reactions on social media.
“This country can never change, I
swear. The only way this country can change is in a situation where everybody
is killed,” Amaechi said in the audio.
“This country is going nowhere.
When Magnus (Abe) was secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), I told
him that this country is hopeless and helpless and he told me, ‘Oga, stop it’.
This cannot be coming from a governor.
“But two months in Abuja, Magnus
came to meet me and said, I agree with you; this country is hopeless and
helpless. All they do in Abuja is to share money.
“I have already written to the
governor of Katsina state and I don’t know why he has not replied to give us
the land in Daura for a university in Daura. The next university would be in my
village. There is a popular saying while we were growing up, that charity
begins at home. Will my own begin abroad?
“The president does not listen to
anybody. He doesn’t care. You can write what you want to write. Does he read? I
was flying with him in the aircraft and we saw a news report where a goat
seller was complaining that he couldn’t sell his goats during Sallah because of
Buhari’s administration. And the president said what my business with goat
sellers is?”
David Iyiofor, spokesman of the
minister, could not be reached for comments as of the time this report was
filed. He neither answered calls nor responded to a text message sent.
Commenting on the audio, Shaibu
asked Nigerians to vote against Buhari in the forthcoming election.
He said a vote for the president
“is a vote for stagnation”, asking Buhari to “quit honourably instead of
wasting tax payers monies on his reelection bid”.
“The truth is that, the other
day, the President confessed that the economy had collapsed under his watch. On
another occasion , the wife confessed to the fact that, the canal and not her
dearest husband, President Buhari was in charge of the country and now, the
director-general of his re-election campaign has confessed to the lack of
capacity of President Buhari and the dismal failure of hid administration,” he
said in a statement.
“The truth is, the president has
established a record of failures which probably no other President would ever
equal or erase. Mrs Aishat Buhari was partially correct when she stated that
two people are preventing her husband from performing well. With this audio
tape, if the two don’t include her husband then she is not completely being
truthful.”
Listen to the audio below:
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