Minister
of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday stated that Igbos benefitted
nothing from former president, Goodluck Jonathan, even though they
massively supported him in 2011.
Amaechi added that those who
served under Jonathan from the South-east region should be ashamed of
themselves because “they were seeing the president five times in a day”
but could not get key roads constructed.
“The Igbos gave Jonathan support, what did he do? Of course! Nothing!”, he said in Lagos at a Forum. “President Jonathan went to Onitsha and danced and promised to construct Onitsha bridge. Right? After that nothing happened.
“Now
we are fixing the bridge without making promise. Or did we promise to
construct Onitsha bridge? I didn’t hear him (President Buhari) say he
would construct Onitsha bridge during the campaign, except someone spoke
on his behalf.
“Today we are constructing the second bridge,
which is the River Niger bridge, The relevance of a politician is not
determined by how much he has in his pocket. It is determined by how
much development he is able to bring.
“The Port Harcourt-Owerri
road was terrible. One day I made the mistake as governor to try to go
to Owerri and I passed through Aba. I wept. Now we are constructing that
road; it may not be at the speed that you want but we are constructing
the road. The next road I mentioned is the Enugu-Onitsha.
“We are
doing Port Harcourt-Enugu, the most important road to the Igbo. The
next most important road to the Igbo is Enugu to Onitsha, and he
(Buhari) is doing it again. So who is better?
“The last man you
people were dancing with at Onitsha bridge that promised you people that
‘Azikiwe commissioned this bridge and the second Azikiwe commissioned
it again’ never put a stone. “But the man who doesn’t talk at all;
who didn’t make promise and he is doing it, which one do you prefer?
Don’t be deceived by those who depended on government alone for
survival.”
On internal squabbles in the APC, Amaechi said it was expected as the ruling party had huge number of members across states.
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