Amaechi: Fresh APC campaigns will frighten the president

Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers state and spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign organisation, says his party has not resumed its presidential campaign rallies, but when it does, there would be crowds that would “frighten the president”.

Speaking in Degema, Obonoma and Abonnema communities in Degema and Akuku-Toru local government areas of the state where APC held a ward-to-ward campaign, Amaechi assured the people that APC under Buhari, if elected, would turn around the country’s misfortunes.

Noting that the challenges currently plaguing the country would be adequately addressed with needed political will to positively turn around the country’s wheel of development, he criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for not taking decisive action on the recent tragic shooting that disrupted the APC rally in Okirika.

“This election is not about brother, it is about your stomach. The president can afford, if dollar likes, dollar can get to N300 to N400 to a dollar, the president can afford it but you can’t afford it,” Amaechi said.

“Now, they tried everything possible to stop the dollar from losing control. They couldn’t because the economy will determine whether the dollar will lose control or not, and the economy has done that already.

“Another one is fuel. They have done everything possible to pay for fuel. They can’t pay. The money is not there. Now, there is fuel crisis. If they win, they will abandon you completely because they have no solution to the problem.

“The first solution to the problem is a new government. Are we going to win? The answer is yes. We have not started campaign. We will start campaign by the end of this week. We will see the crowd again that will frighten the president. Nigerians want change. Things have got to change.”

He decried the poor state of the federal road in Kalabari area, assuring that Buhari, when elected president, would fix the road and bring other democratic dividends to the state.

“See your road. I sat with the president with Kalabari chiefs and I said, ‘Allow me take this road, two years ago. President said no’.

“You can see the road; next rainy season, you cannot drive into this place unless you change the president and if you change the president, then the new president can fix the road, not the Rivers state government.

“It’s a federal road. It’s important everybody understands that the road into Kalabari is a federal road and I asked permission to fix the road and the president said no and he has refused to fix it. If he likes Kalabari people, why has he not fixed it?”

He urged the people of the state to vote Dakuku Peterside as governor in the state and Buhari as president, saying Buhari would also guarantee the safety of lives of Nigerians by providing them security.

“Protect your votes. How do you protect your votes? Follow the man. If we don’t win, the kings of this place will no longer be in charge here.

“It will be these people who carry guns. You know, people say Boko Haram in the North, we also have Boko Haram in the South because of the number of people they kill every day and the president doesn’t care. The president heard about shooting in Okrika, he has done nothing.

“If you want your life to be cared for, then allow Buhari to come. The only way Buhari can come is for you to go and vote APC on that day.”

Amaechi also said the president rejected his first two ministerial nominees from Kalabari because he did not like Kalabari people.

“If he (Jonathan) likes Kalabari people, why did he reject Odein Ajumogobia and Tonye Cole?” he asked.