Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the hardship under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has become so intense that many Nigerians are now yearning for the return of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Amaechi, who spoke in Abuja, said Nigeria had been “completely destroyed” and could not be rescued by a mere change of government.
“Inflation is at its peak. People cannot eat. People cannot buy food. There is no money to buy food. Everything is gone,” he said.
According to him, the country has become so difficult that Nigerians have started recalling the Buhari era with nostalgia.
“Now people want Buhari to come back. What happens in Nigeria is that each new government ends up being worse than the last, and people begin to long for the previous one,” he stated.
Amaechi, who announced his resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday night, said he had long withdrawn from the party’s activities.
The former minister announced his membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC)
He said, “I left APC last night (Tuesday). I never attended one meeting. The last time they invited me, I warned them. In fact, I was surprised I was not expelled. I wrote to them not to invite me again. You cannot be in a club where the majority of people are stealing and you do not say anything,” he stated.
On why he is now criticising the government he once served, the former governor of Rivers State said it was not just about changing leadership but about fixing the country.
He explained that there is the need to start a movement, not just a party that brings Nigerians together to take over the government for themselves rather than for “us”.
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