Former minister of transportation and presidential candidate in the last All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary, Rotimi Amaechi over the weekend said delegates at the ruling party’s last convention are regretting their selling their votes.
Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers state, finished second behind Bola Ahmed Tinubu with 316 votes.
The outspoken former minister, who spoke at an event to mark the 60th birthday of Eugene Ogu, general overseer of Abundant Life Evangel Mission in Port Harcourt, said the “ordinary” citizen is the problem of the country.
According to him, the prayer should be for Nigerians to vote for the right person to govern the country.
“I don’t believe that is the solution to Nigeria’s problem — giving money. I hope you know. I give you N10 million now and when it finishes, what happens? The solution to Nigeria’s problem is that all of you must rise,” he said.
“God should save the ordinary Nigerian, because they are the problem. Those who voted at the APC primary, who are they? The ordinary Nigerian. The small money they got solved their immediate problems.
“Now ‘oh we made a mistake’; ‘we didn’t make a mistake’. We are hearing different things. Pray for the leadership of the country, but also pray that ordinary Nigerians choose the right person to govern.”
On the controversy surrounding the identity of the clerics that attended the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as the APC vice-presidential candidate, Amaechi said the persons in question are Christians.
“Those bishops you saw (Kashim Shettima’s unveiling ceremony), they may not be bishops, but they are Christians,” he said.
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