Politics

2023: I’ve Known Poverty, I Still Drink Garri Three Times A Day – Amaechi

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3 years ago

May 20, 2022.

Sylvester Ugwuanyi

As Buhari's Campaign DG, Amaechi Says People Fought Him For Supporting Hausa/Fulani Candidate

As Buhari’s Campaign DG, Amaechi Says People Fought Him For Supporting Hausa/Fulani Candidate
Amaechi Says He Connects Easily With People And Can Walk Up To You And Discuss

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rotimi Amaechi, has played up his poor background in a bid to secure the support of his party men and women in their fast-approaching national delegates’ conference.

He pointed out that poor upbringing makes him more qualified than any presidential aspirant in Nigeria, stressing that he could easily connect with the poor as he used to, and still, drinks cassava flour, better known as garri, three times a day.

Amaechi, who made the statement when he met with APC delegates in Niger State on Thursday, also asserted that he has served and delivered as Speaker, Governor, Minister, and Director-General of two successful presidential campaigns.

His words, “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”.

The presidential aspirant maintained that his humble background had afforded him the opportunity to understand the plight of the common person and relate easily with them.

“I can connect easily with the people. I wasn’t born into a rich family. My father was a poor man, and 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,” he said.

Amaechi, a two-term governor of Rivers State, told the people of Niger State that he understood their problem of insecurity therefore he had an idea of the problem bedeviling the state.

“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. In six months, we brought down insecurity in Rivers State,” he said.

He pointed out that now is the time for the people of the North and all Nigerians to stand by him, as he did for the country when he supported the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari without looking at whether he was from the North or South.

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“When everybody was fighting me, saying ‘he’s supporting a northern candidate, he’s supporting a Hausa/Fulani candidate,’ I remained steadfast that I was supporting a Nigerian candidate. Now it’s your turn to,” he said.

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