Amaechi says people dying of hunger under Buhari

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has allegedly been heard in an audio tape released at the weekend criticizing the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to meet the expectation of Nigerians.

The audio recording was shared by a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign, Phrank Shaibu.

In the audio recording, Amaechi, who is also the Director-General of Buhari’s campaign organization, allegedly portrayed the President as a failure who has been unable to meet the yearnings of various segments of the society.

Amaechi purportedly said, “These are not things you publish ooo. If you publish them, you will never sit with me any day.

“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying… pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!

“The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will divide!”

Amaechi also said Buhari hardly listens “to anybody”.

According to him, “The President does not listen to anybody. He doesn’t care. You can write what you want to write. The President doesn’t care. Does he read? He will read, he will laugh. He will say ‘come, come and see, they are abusing me here’.

Amaechi was also heard saying that Nigeria was hopeless, and the only way for the country to make progress is for “everybody to be killed”.

He said a university would be built in his village after one is built in Daura, hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State.

“This country can never change, I swear. The only way this country can change is in a situation where everybody is killed.

“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.

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“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?” Amaechi said in the audio.

Amaechi’s spokesman, David Iyofor, said the Minister’s team would review the audio recording and make comments at the appropriate time.