The current Minister for Transportation and former Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has made some intriguing comments about Buhari’s nature before and after he assumed the seat of Nigeria’s president.
Speaking at the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday in Abuja, the minister opined that during the days of his campaign, people like him who were on his side had been made to understand that he had an autocratic approach to governance.
However, his “extreme democratic” attitude to governance has left them unhappy.
Amaechi said, “ I was told in the course of the campaign that you were autocratic and therefore you would not be democratic. Most of us are not happy that you have moved from your autocratic nature to an extreme democrat that everything puts to test of the people, to the extent that the people now feel that the only way things can go on in this country is by the rule of law.
“We all know that the rule of law is the beginning and the end of this government. Talking about the financial impunity that we saw before, people were making money without having any productive capacity for that.”
Speaking further, the minister narrated how many of his compatriots in Rivers State had warned him about his decision to align with Buhari, stating that the latter had plans to make Nigeria become an Islamic nation.
He equally mentioned that at some point, he was referred to as “Alhaji Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi”. But all those who did have now begun to call him “Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi”.
Amaechi then smiled and thanked the president for not enforcing Islam on him.
He stated, “Mr. President, let me thank you for not converting me to Islam. I say that specifically because in 2014 when I walked into Christ the King Catholic Church, I was literally chased out of the church as a governor because I was accused of supporting a man whose agenda was to Islamise Nigeria.”
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