The All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised Rotimi Amaechi, the immediate past Minister of Transportation, for inciting Nigerian youths to protest the current high cost of living in the country.
Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, described Mr Amaechi’s comments as insensitive and unpatriotic, saying he should be disregarded.
Recall that Mr Amaechi, also a former Speaker and a two-term governor of Rivers in a recent interview, berated Nigerian youth for not protesting against high cost of living in the country.
“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,” Mr 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.
The party said it was also aware that the discomfort would pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which were already beginning to manifest.
The party 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.
(NAN)
