Nigerians should wait till 2019 before they judge us - 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.

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.

He said: “Go and talk to your people in the National Assembly. They are the ones holding the Federal Government back from improving on the infrastructure that would provide mass employment for the people by stopping the President’s borrowing plan from China. They are the ones frustrating our efforts.” On his stewardship, the Minister of Health, Professor Issac Adewole, said the Federal Government had secured a loan of $500 million to fund the revival of basic health institutions across the country.

He explained that N420 million was disbursed to each state in 2015 to fund the project in their respective states. Under the scheme, which would provide 1,000 basic health centres as already captured in the budget, the minister said a model health centre is being cited in each of the three senatorial districts of the three states. Other ministers who gave accounts of their stewardship were those of Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; Water, Sulyman Adamu; Mining and Steel (State), Abubakar Bwauari, and Trade and Investment, Ayishat Abubakar.
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  1. Mr minister does a dead man talk. You were part and still part of failed leadership in Nigeria. You ride in exotic cars all expense paid lifestyle sit in your comfort tell us to wait till 2018, you are a joke. #nopeaceforthewickedrulers#

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  2. i dey laugh APC. We should wait to 2019 abi?

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  3. This emesis could only have come from you and no one else. Don't you know that some people would die before 2019?

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  4. This emesis could only have come from you and no one else. Don't you know that some people would die before 2019?

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  6. Wicked person does he really knows what he is saying? Things are going from bad to worst and you say we should wait..

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  7. The problem is not waiting because by 2019 you will ask us to wait till 2023

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  8. Did you wait for pdp government to protest increase in fuel price and subsidy removal ? What nonsense ? How many of your children are schooling in Nigerua? Bad leadership! If you are proud of what you are doing why can't you let your children stay here. If you are having malaria you will go abroad for medical treatment, if Pdp Government was bad it was not as bad as yours! Kill all people and iet us see people you will govern in 2019...Lord what type of leaders do we have in Nigeria.

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  9. Our elders have a proverb that says "the masquerade that can dance very well is seen from its legs" also, "the eyes that will serve its owner till evening is seen from morning". APC have failed Nigerians badly and it's unwise to wait any further. If APC continue like this, many Nigerians would perish before 2019. We know we have mistakenly voted for APC, but we won't be silent anymore.

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  10. U where in haste to take power now,you have power without a plan. How can this work.. Your lead APC leadership and administration has lead Nigeria into acute hardship.

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