A
former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has urged Nigerians to
exercise more patience with the current administration to enable it
deliver good governance.
Rotimi Amaechi
Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday, said All
Progressives Congress, APC, government did not promise to fix Nigeria’s
problem within a year and cautioned those lamenting the economic
hardship to wait till 2019 for the desired change.
Also, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
cautioned Nigerians against making statements that could cause
religious disharmony, warning that “no nation has ever survived religious war.”
The ministers spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, during a North Central
town hall meeting for the people of Kogi, Niger and Kwara states by the
Federal Government.
Amaechi, who was the Director General of the Campaign Organisation
of President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 elections, said though the
Federal Government knows that things are difficult, Nigerians should
wait till the end of the four-year mandate given to the administration
before they can judge whether the government had performed or not.
Rotimi Amaechi According to him, “we did not promise you that
those challenges will be solved in one year or you would have given us a
one-year mandate. But you gave us four years mandate, so wait till the
end of four years before you can conclude that we have not done well.”
While giving stewardship of his ministry, the minister lamented
that the refusal of the National Assembly to approve the government’s
borrowing plan from China was drawing the government back, urging the
people from the three states to prevail on the National Assembly to
approve the loan.
According to him, if accessed, the loan would enable the government
embark on the rivatalisation of rail projects, which would create more
jobs.
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