The Minister of Transportation, Mr.
Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for not
converting him to Islam, saying he was misunderstood and criticised for
associating with the president.
Amaechi stated this on Wednesday
at the valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council.
The former Rivers State Governor
narrated how he was almost chased out of Christ the King Catholic Church in
2014 for supporting the president, whom they alleged was trying to Islamise the
country, NAN reports.
“Mr. President, let me thank you
for not converting me to Islam. I say that specifically because in 2014 when I
walked into Christ the King Catholic Church, I was literally chased out of the
church as a governor because I was accused of supporting a man whose agenda was
to Islamise Nigeria.
“And in Rivers state they began
to call me `Alhaji Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi’. I thank you because they have
dropped the `Alhaji’ and back to Mr Chibuike Amaechi,’’ he said.
Amaechi said some persons
initially thought that the president would be an autocratic leader only for him
to turn out to be an “extreme democrat’’.
“I was told in the course of the
campaign that you were autocratic and therefore you would not be democratic.
“Most of us are not happy that
you have moved from your autocratic nature to an extreme democrat that
everything puts to test of the people, to the extent that the people now feel
that the only way things can go on in this country is by the rule of law.
“We all know that the rule of law
is the beginning and the end of this government. Talking about the financial
impunity that we saw before, people were making money without having any
productive capacity for that,’’ he said.
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