Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the opposition can remove President Bola Tinubu from power.

This was as he revealed that despite being in the same All Progressives Congress (APC) with Tinubu in 2023, he did not support him while he was contesting to be President.

Amaechi made this known while speaking on the theme,“Weaponisation of poverty as a means of underdevelopment: A case study of Nigeria,” during an event to mark his 60th birthday in Abuja on Saturday.

“Let me tell you, no Nigerian leader cares for the poor, because they know that Nigerians can do nothing to them once they are in power. When Nigerians protested, the President announced an increase in the price of fuel because they know you cannot do anything,” Amaechi said.

“I met President Tinubu in Yola and I told him I will not work for you and I will not vote for you.

“I told him like that. People have been saying I do not work for All People’s Congress (APC) or Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that is because I was convinced that there was an issue of capacity.”

The former Governor of Rivers State further stated that ” for us,in the opposition, if you want us to remove the man in power, we can remove him from this power. We want to submit to the opposition if the opposition can lead us out of this problem. And for the opposition to lead us out of this problem, we must agree. to submit ourselves to the interests of the nation first before the interests of ourselves.”

Amaechi the accused leaders of weaponising poverty and stealing the money they are supposed to give to the citizens

“If I were president, yes, some of the policies they are pursuing, I would pursue them, however they are more interested in the gains than the benefits to Nigerians.

“Take for instance, we were paying N4-5 trillion on fuel subsidy, now that the subsidy is gone where is the money now, imagine if they had dumped it in the economy would an average Nigerians not felt the impact,” he said.

He stated “insecurity is 99 per cent poverty. Insecurity is increasing in Nigeria because there is hunger. When I was the governor of Rivers State and there was increase in insecurity, I knew that there was no money in the system so I direct my commissioner for finance to release money, pay salaries then insecurity will reduce. So it’s about poverty.”

“It is when they come to elections, they will tell you. Now you have a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Let the Muslim-Muslim market come out now. It’s time. We are all hungry. All of us are. If you are not hungry, I am,” Amaechi said.