Leaked tape: Amaechi’s confirmed voting Buhari means stagnation — Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that the trending leaked audio
recordings alleged to be the voice of the Minister of
Transportation and Director General of President Muhammadu Buhari
Campaign Organization, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has
confirmed that voting Buhari for a second term in office means
bringing starvation to Nigerians.

Atiku also said that the recording has revealed the Transport
Minister as confirming that Nigeria “was beyond redemption because
the country was yet to find a leader that can confront the enormous
challenges facing it.”

Both the statement and audio recordings which were made
available to journalists in Abuja by Mr. Phrank Shaibu, Special
Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku Abubakar, said the
minister complained about working in President Buhari’s
cabinet.

Atiku quoted Amaechi as saying, “This country can never change,
I swear. The only way this country can change is in a situation
where everybody is killed. This country is going nowhere. When
Magnus (Abe) was my Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG),
I told him that this country is hopeless and helpless and he told
me, Oga, stop it. This cannot be coming from a governor.

“But two months in Abuja, Magnus came to meet me and said, I
agree with you; this country is hopeless and helpless. All they do
in Abuja is to share money.”

Atiku’s statement partly reads thus: “In apparent show of
disbelief in the policies and programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari
led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, the minister
complained about the President’s penchant not to heed constructive
advice and the fact that he does not read.

Amaechi said ‘the president does not listen to anybody. He
doesn’t care. You can write what you want to write. Does he read? I
was flying with him in the aircraft and we saw a news report where
a goat seller was complaining that he couldn’t sell his goats
during Sallah because of Buhari’s administration. And the president
said what my business with goat sellers is?’

“Amaechi also said no President, in the history of Nigeria, has
championed ethnicity and other primordial sentiments as President
Buhari has done since assuming office about three and a half years
ago.

He said, aside other nepotistic tendencies that have become the
hallmark of the administration, the president has instructed that
the Transportation University being planned by the ministry be
situated in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State.

“Amaechi warned journalists present at the interaction that the
information he was divulging to them was not for public
consumption.”

Atiku said These are not things you publish. If you publish it,
you will never sit with me again. I have already written to the
Governor of Katsina State and I don’t know why he has not replied
to give us the land in Daura for the project (Transport
University). That’s for the University in Daura. The next
university would be in my village. There is a popular saying while
we were growing up, that charity begins at home. But mine began
abroad!”

Shaibu in a terse press statement said, the President should
just quit honorably instead of wasting taxpayers monies on a failed
reelection bid.

“These recent audio tapes contradicts claims yesterday by the
Nigerian Presidency through Mr Tolu Ogunlesi, the Special Assistant
On Digital Communication that the audio was recorded in 2014. The
truth is that, the other day, the President confessed that the
economy had collapsed under his watch. On another occasion, the
wife confessed to the fact that, the canal and not her dearest
husband, President Buhari was in-charge of the country and now, the
Director General Of his re-election campaign has confessed to the
lack of capacity of President Buhari and the dismal failure of hid
administration.

Truth is, the President has established a record of failures
which probably no other President would ever equal or erase. Mrs
Aishat Buhari was partially correct when she stated that two people
are preventing her husband from performing well. With this audio
tape, if the two don’t include her husband then she is not
completely being truthful.”