Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers, says opposition parties can remove President Bola Tinubu from power in 2027.
Speaking on Saturday during an event organised to mark his 60th birthday anniversary, Amaechi said he met Tinubu before the 2023 presidential election and told him that he would not work or vote for him.
Amaechi said his decision not to back Tinubu’s presidential bid was based on “capacity” issue.
The former minister of transportation further said he would have pursued some of the policies of the present administration if he were president.
He added that the gains of the policies have, however, not trickled down to Nigerians because “the gains of those policies are in their private pockets”.
Amaechi said he does not mind submitting to the opposition to oust Tinubu as long as the interest of the nation is placed above individual interests.
“I met President Tinubu in Yola and I told him I would not work for you and I would not vote for you,” Amaechi said.
“Why I’m saying this is because some people in Rivers state have been saying ‘he didn’t work for APC, he didn’t support Tinubu’. I told him in advance before the election…because I was convinced that there was an issue of capacity.
“Some of us here who raise the issue of capacity are also the ones who vote on ethnic and religious basis or who spoil innocent or uneducated people who are poor to vote for people for ethnic or religious reasons. That’s why we are here.
“For us to position, if you want us to remove the man in power, we can remove him from this power. We want to submit to the opposition if the opposition can lead us out of this problem. And for the opposition to lead us out of this problem, we must agree to submit ourselves to the interests of the nation first before the interests of ourselves.”
