The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the recent statement credited to the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, nudging Nigerian youth to rise against the country in view of the lingering high cost of living.

The party said such statement is undeserving of a man who has benefitted so much from the country.

Amaechi, who was former Governor of Rivers state, in a recent interview, berated Nigerian youth for not protesting “high cost of living” in the country to his satisfaction.

Reacting in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, Esq., the party said “Amaechi’s comments are insensitive, god-awful and unpatriotic, coming from one of Nigeria’s longest serving and highest ranking political freeloader.”

Amaechi was a two-term Speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly, a two-term Governor, and a two-term Minister of Transport.

Accordinv to Morka, in the statement, “for almost all of his adult life, Amaechi, has been a leechy dependant on state resources, a voracious beneficiary of official patronage, and a leading participant in the generational devastation of our country’s economy.”

The APC opined that Amaechi’s perceived attempt to “hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative and dangerous.”

Morka said: “If those in power ‘steal money’ as Amaechi mischievously alleged, how come he can’t afford “to buy diesel” barely two years after ‘stealing’ for over 24 years in power as Speaker, Governor and Minister?

“The only real anger that Amaechi and his fellow tribesmen of naysayers of the likes of Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, must feel is that they are not in the saddle of government today.

“But that was a decision made by Nigeria’s ultimate political authority – the electorate. Nigerians are highly perceptive, discerning, demure, and mindful that economic discomforts associated with the administration’s inevitable reforms are transient and will pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which are already beginning to manifest.”

He further stressed that: “Nigerians will not be cajoled into taking back through street violence what they handed to the administration through the ballot, as Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen would wish.

” It is nauseating to think that these naysayer tribesmen who did absolutely nothing to improve the economy or living conditions for Nigerians while in office, now pontificate, endlessly, about what and how things should be done but didn’t and couldn’t do while in power.

The APC spokesman it was sad the traducers if present administration are just regaining their senses to discover their talents for governance when they are out of power.

“A tribe of naysayers, is what they are, who never see any good, only gloom, filled with bile and disdain for the determined strides of APC-administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to transform our country’s economy for the benefit of present and future generations of Nigerians.

“One would expect Amaechi to keep busy trying to solve the crippling crisis in Rivers state that he once governed. Instead, he has chosen to stoke anarchy on a national scale.

“Weaponizing protest and exploiting citizen’s economic discomfort for selfish political objective, as these partisan tribesmen are doing, is irresponsible and decidedly unpatriotic.

Morka urged Nigerians to dismiss the call to anarchy “by Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen” and to remain patient and continue to support President Tinubu’s bold effort to transform Nigeria.

Source:AbujaCityJorunals