The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that he is a Minister and he wouldn't want to be sacked, when fielded with questions if he would run for Presidency in 2023.
Amaechi served as the director-general of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation for the two successful presidential campaigns of President Muhammadu Buhri in 2015 and 2019, made this known in an interview with Daily Trust on Sunday.
It is worthy to note that there have being speculations on media platforms that the former Governor of Rivers State is preparing to throw his hat into the ring as a candidate for the 2023 presidential race.
On the contrary, Amaechi described Nigerian Newspaper who reported that his trip to Taraba State was a secrete meeting to kick-start campaign as mischievous.
He noted that, "I am a minister and I don’t want to get sacked until the president is satisfied that I should go. Anyone that said I was in Taraba for a meeting is lying. I got to Taraba by accident through a friend whose daughter was wedding. I went there and came back. Mischievously, one of the Nigerian newspapers wrote that I went for a political meeting. I like the way Muslims organise their weddings. Five minutes, it was over, 10 minutes we were eating and in 30 minutes, we were at the airport. How can a political meeting take place in 30 minutes? The event was so well organized. After the event, a vehicle took us back to the airport."
The Minister stated in in reaction about the insinuations that the All Progressive Congress will not go beyond 2023 because it was interest that brought them together, he said," the next interest will bring us back together. The problem is that there are no strong political platforms for elections in Nigeria. You must deal with the issue of ideology, the same thing with the PDP. The party is a conglomeration of business people who wanted to capture power and get wealth and they produced a lot of Nigerian rich men through that. The APC is a conglomeration of Nigeria’s opposition group that wanted to capture power, they did that, so, why did you think it will not continue?
"In Nigeria and most political platforms, it is interest that is permanent, not friendship. If the interest is that we must capture power, it has not waned. So I don’t see the APC disintegrating as a party. There will be cracks and disagreement but they will still be together until a time when Nigerians will say they no longer want us."
According to him, in 2023 he will sleep.
