The
Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that corruption will return to
the country “automatically” if Nigerians vote out President Muhammadu Buhari in
2019.
Mr. Amaechi said this to
journalists on Thursday at his office.
“Let me tell you, if we don’t win,
corruption will come back automatically,” he said. “Nobody will beg it.”
He said members of his former
party, which is now the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party, have
been “hungry” for four years because they are out of power.
“They have been out for four years
and they have never been out of government before; PDP never left government,
so now they are hungry. Not hungry for power, in fact if you tell them that I
want to keep power and I will give you money, they will say take power and give
us the money,” he said.
He said reelecting Mr. Buhari will
however not be an easy task because of the perception of Nigerians that the
president had failed to meet the high expectations of Nigerians that led to his
election in 2019.
“It was not easy last time but it
will be more difficult now. Why it would be difficult, more difficult?
Expectations were too high, and a lot of people felt that we did not meet those
expectation but they are not looking at what it takes to meet those
expectation,” he said.
He also admitted that there is
corruption in the present government but however said it cannot be compared to
what obtained during the past administration of Goodluck Jonathan.
“I will nearly be a foolish man to
say that there is no corruption in this government, but compare the magnitude
if there is any,” he said.
“Before it
was with impunity. Now there are consequences for stealing.
“For any reason we lose election,
you the young ones are taking yourselves and Nigeria 10 steps backwards because
the elites who left through PDP are waiting in the wind.”
Mr. Amaechi is the immediate past
governor of Rivers state. He also served as the campaign director of Mr. Buhari
in 2015.
Although Mr. Buhari has yet to
publicly declare his intention to seek re-election, insiders have said Mr.
Amaechi has been appointed to lead the campaign again.
Source: Premium Times
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