The All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for inciting Nigerian youths to protest the current high cost of living in the country.
The former minister in a chat with Igbere TV on Wednesday lamented that the youths have not taken the protest against the high cost of living in Nigeria seriously.
Amaechi said he expected Nigerians to take their campaign against the economic hardship to the streets to force the Federal Government to look into their plights and come up with solutions.
However, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, described the ex-Rivers State governor’s comments as insensitive and unpatriotic.
He urged Nigerians to disregard the remarks.
Morka said: “Amaechi’s comments are insensitive, god-awful and unpatriotic, coming from one of Nigeria’s longest serving and highest ranking political freeloaders.
“Attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative, and dangerous.”
He said Nigerians were highly perceptive, discerning, and mindful that the current economic discomforts associated with the President Bola Tinubu administration’s inevitable reforms were transient.
The spokesman added that Nigerians were also aware that the discomfort would pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends that were already beginning to manifest.
He expressed optimism that Nigerians would not be cajoled into taking back through street violence what they handed to the Tinubu administration through the ballot as Amaechi and his tribesmen would wish.
“It is nauseating to think these naysayer tribesmen who did absolutely nothing to improve the economy or living conditions for Nigerians while they were in office are now pontificating endlessly about what and how things should be done, but didn’t and couldn’t do while in power.
“It is as though they only regain their senses and discover their talents for governance when they are out of power.
“A tribe of naysayers is what they are, who never see any good, only gloom, filled with bile and disdain for the determined strides of APC-administration of Tinubu to transform our country’s economy for the benefit of present and future generations of Nigerians,” the APC spokesman concluded.
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