Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi says he will support his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice for 2023 presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The presidential aspirant stated this during a consultative meeting at the Rivers APC secretariat on Friday, a Saturday statement released by his media office said.
According to the statement, Amaechi said that if the president decided to back another aspirant, he would support the individual.
“Loyalty is not when you are not chosen, you become disloyal, loyalty means you follow the man that leads you, that you have surrendered to his leadership,” he was quoted as saying.
“If you don’t follow, it means you are not loyal, you are only benefitting from the man politically and economically. The day he’s not able to give you that economic reality, is the day you become disloyal.
“I am a very loyal person, and those who are disloyal, I wish them well, those who want to do whatever they want to do, I wish them well. The opportunity will be given to everybody, we will run this presidential election, we will run, and I am loyal to the president and I am loyal to the party.
“If the party says it is me, thank God. If the party says it is not me, whoever the party chooses, I will support. If the party and president choose anybody, I will support the person, if the party chooses me, I will be glad and say thank God,” the statement read in part.
The statement quoted Chairman of the APC in Rivers, Emeka Beke as assuring Amaechi of the state delegates’ support and votes during the party’s convention.