Rotimi Amaechi, presidential hopeful, says he will address
the insecurity in Niger state if elected president.
Speaking at a meeting with Abubakar Bello, Niger governor,
and All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates in the state on Thursday, Amaechi
said he has experience in combating insecurity because he curbed it as governor
of Rivers.
The former transportation minister said as governor he and
Tukur Buratai, former chief of army staff, chased criminals into the bush in
Rivers without bulletproof vests.
“I know what you’re suffering, I was governor of Rivers State when they were kidnapping two months old children, and I never slept until everybody slept,” his media office quoted him without saying.
“General Buratai is
not here today, he would have told you the story. Buratai, myself the former
Inspector General of Police (Suleiman Abba) asked them, we used to chase
criminals in the bush.
“I remember one day I was chasing criminals with Gen Sarkin
Yaki Bello (then Commander of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta), we were
running and he stopped and asked me, ‘Your Excellency, are you wearing a
bulletproof vest?’ I said why are you asking, he said ‘what if they shoot you,’
I said ‘are you wearing one?’ He said no, and I asked ‘what if they shoot you.’
“But in six months, we brought down insecurity in Rivers
state.”
The former governor said having occupied different public
offices, he is more experienced than any other presidential hopeful.
“Another difference between me and them, is that I am a
politician, they’re not. The difference is that I can walk to you and I’ll
talk, discuss with you,” Amaechi said.
“I can connect easily with the people. I wasn’t born into a
rich family. My father was a poor man, the only English my mother knows how to
speak is pidgin english. I ate garri three times a day, and I still eat garri
three times a day till today, so I know poverty.”
On his part, the Niger governor asked the delegates if they
were satisfied with Amaechi’s submission and the delegates repeatedly chorused
a “Yes!”.
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