Chibuike
Amaechi, Minister for Transportation and Director General (DG) of Buhari
Campaign Organisation, said the opposition People Democratic Party (PDP) was
responsible for the current challenges Nigerians were passing through.
Mr Amaechi
said this at the flag-off of Governor Simon Lalong’s re-election bid on Friday
in Jos.
The
minister was Speaker of the River State House of Assembly for eight years and
the state governor for six out of eight years on the platform of the PDP.
Mr Amaechi
said the hunger, poverty and under-development being faced in the country was
because PDP diverted huge monies meant for the public into private use in its
16-year rule.
“If today
Nigerians are hungry, it is because in its 16-year rule, the PDP stole monies
meant for development of critical sectors of the economy.
“For 16
years, they gave us 3, 000 megawatts of electricity, today the current administration
produces 7,000 megawatts.
“Because
they diverted huge public funds, we were importing rice, but today the story is
different and our local farmers are smiling to the banks.
“So, PDP
is full of dishonest people and that is why they stole all our money,” he said.
Mr Amaechi
noted that to address poverty, hunger and under-development, the present
government is working in that regard.
He urged
Plateau residents to vote President Mohammadu Buhari, and Mr Lalong for a
second term, adding that the forthcoming polls would be a tussle between the
“greedy rich versus the poor masses”.
“So, I am urging you the good people
of Plateau to again vote APC at all levels, we mean well for this country, ” he
said.
- NAN
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