Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
A former Governor of Rivers State and one of the founding members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has resigned his membership of the APC, claiming that “Nigeria is completely destroyed and requires a complete change.”
The former Minister of Transportation accused the APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of colluding to hijack the forthcoming elections in the country.
Amaechi who spoke after the unveiling of the interim executive of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Abuja, said that things had become “so bad that Nigerians can’t afford to eat because there is no money to buy food.”
The former presidential aspirant decried the economic hardship in the country, saying that “inflation is at its peak.”
Amaechi, who said that he resigned from the APC on Tuesday night, expressed surprised that he was not expelled from the party after he warned them not to send invitation to him for meetings.
On why he is clamouring to change the government, he helped in forming, he said Nigeria needed total overhaul.
“No, it’s not about changing the government, if it is about changing the government, there is no need of changing the government, it’s about changing Nigeria.
“Nigeria is completely destroyed. People can’t eat. People can’t buy food. There’s no money to buy food. Everything is gone. Inflation is at its peak. And the Federal Government is busy going around trying to hijack the election. INEC is helping them to hijack the election.
“No, no, no. What must happen here is that we must start not just a party, but a movement, it must be a movement that brings in Nigerians to on their own take over government, not us.”
Continuing he said: “I left APC last night. I never attended one meeting; the last time they invited me I warned them. I said, if you invite me to any meeting anymore… In fact, I was surprised that I wasn’t even expelled because I warned them in writing, don’t even invite me to any meeting. You can’t be in a club where majority of people are stealing and you don’t say anything.”
On what he thought was wrong with President Tinubu’s government that he was not supporting it, Amaechi said: “I have never believed that Tinubu is a material to govern the country, I have never, because now, people want (Muhammadu) Buhari to come back. What happens in Nigeria is that when a new government takes over, it becomes worse than the previous government that makes people say let the previous government come back.
“People are asking for Buhari because things were better during Buhari’s administration. Dollar was I think ₦460 or five hundred and something now a dollar is one thousand five hundred and eighty, that is more than one hundred percent.”
