President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election with even a better margin compared to 2015, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said.
Amaechi, who is the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, spoke exclusively to Daily Trust in his office yesterday.
He said he has no doubt President Buhari will perform better in 2019 even as he assured the APC won’t be involved election rigging.
“We will do better in 2019. A part of the 2015 election was rigged by PDP. But this time we are closing all rigging against even ourselves. If you speak to the President, one of the things he says is that he wants to bequeath to Nigerians the ability to choose their leaders and be held accountable for the weakness and strength of those leaders.
“So you don’t elect a leader for them and say they are responsible for the failures of the leader. The president is determined to do that,” he said.
Amaechi also said the ruling APC won’t be using the security agencies or its incumbency status to influence the elections, adding that Mr. President has warned against that.
He also said Mr. President will be on the campaign train of the APC despite handing his campaign responsibilities to Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Co-Chairman of the MBCO.
He said what to expect in the campaign is very clear. “The PDP strategy is clear. Our strategy is clear. PDP says our people are hungry and the economy is bad. We have our replies. The first reply is that Nigerians are hungry because PDP carted away all the money.”
“If they left the money, we would have managed it in a way that Nigerians will have food to eat. What creates food is what creates job. If you create job, you create food. But you don’t create jobs when there are no resources,” he said.
The full interview will be featured in Daily Trust on Sunday.
