Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu knew he would never support or vote for him.
The former Rivers State governor, who disclosed this during a lecture in Abuja on Saturday to mark his 60th birthday, said he made it clear to Tinubu right from the earliest days of campaigns leading to the 2023 general elections.
Amaechi added that he decided to keep to his words and never worked or voted for Tinubu because the President lacked the capacity to govern Nigeria.
Amaechi said: “I told Tinubu in Yola, I will not support you; I will not work for you. I did not work for him; I did not vote for him. It was the issue of capacity.
“Some of us who are here are also those who vote on an ethnic or religious basis. Innocent, uneducated people are manipulated to vote based on ethnicity and religion — that’s why we are here.
“When we leave here, we go to plot to go and grab power; no Nigerian leader cares for you.”
Amaechi is also a key member of the coalition working to defeat Tinubu in 2027.
And then speaking on the efforts, he said, “We want to submit to the opposition if the opposition will take us out of this problem.
“The current government is weaponising poverty by stealing the money they should have used to build hospitals and schools. The benefit of the fuel subsidy removal is in their pockets.”
It could be recalled that Amaechi also contested the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election against Tinubu.