The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the former Minister of Transport and ex-Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, for inciting Nigerians to protest over the high cost of living and other economic challenges.
In a press statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the party described Amaechi’s recent remarks as unpatriotic, hypocritical, and insensitive.
“Amaechi’s comments are insensitive, god-awful and unpatriotic, coming from one of Nigeria’s longest serving and highest ranking political freeloaders.
“Attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative and dangerous,”Morka said.
He said Nigerians were highly perceptive, discerning and mindful that the current economic discomforts associated with the President Bola Tinubu-led administration’s inevitable reforms were transient.
He said they were also aware that the discomfort would pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which were already beginning to manifest.
Morka expressed optimism that Nigerians would not be cajoled into taking back through street violence what they handed to the Tinubu-led administration through the ballot as Amaechi and his tribesmen would wish.
“It is nauseating to think that these naysayer tribesmen who did absolutely nothing to improve the economy or living conditions for Nigerians while they were in office.
“Are now pontificating endlessly about what and how things should be done, but didn’t and couldn’t do while in power.
“It is as though they only regain their senses and discover their talents for governance when they are out of power.
“A tribe of naysayers is what they are, who never see any good, only gloom, filled with bile and disdain for the determined strides of APC-administration of Tinubu to transform our country’s economy for the benefit of present and future generations of Nigerians,” the APC spokesman said.
