APC: Amaechi is unpatriotic — he’s among those who devastated Nigeria

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers state, “is unpatriotic”.

The ruling party was reacting to comments credited to Amaechi, a former minister of transportation.

The former minister had said he is disappointed in Nigerians for their seeming laid-back disposition to the economic hardship sweeping through the country.

“There should be protests. Not even protests against anybody but against the politicians that ‘we won’t vote’,” he said.

In a statement on Friday, Felix Morka, APC national spokesperson, said Amaechi is “a leading participant in the generational devastation of our country’s economy”.

“Attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative and dangerous,” Morka said.

“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.

“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.”

Morka said the former minister should be busy “trying to solve the crippling crisis in Rivers state that he once governed”.