Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Fed­eral Government’s town-hall meeting in Lagos on Mon­day, the Minister of Transport, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has urged cit­izens to exercise patience and give the President Muhammadu Buha­ri-led administration more time.

Speaking at the Maritime Technical Summit organised in Lagos on Thursday by the Associa­tion of Marine Engineers and Sur­veyors (AMES), where he was the special guest of honour, Amaechi acknowledged the masses’ grow­ing disenchantment with the pre­sent government following the yet-to-be fulfilled promises and even the alleged denied ones.

However, against such high expectations, he said that as the Director-General of the APC Pres­idential Campaign Organisation, he has “watched the video from beginning to the end and there was nowhere we promised Nige­rians that we are miracle workers.

“In fact, towards the end of the campaign, because expecta­tions were very high, if you lis­tened to us, we began to lower ex­pectations by telling you no, no, no, the challenges are going to be extremely difficult, but if we get your mandate, we will confront those challenges.”

Reclining on the party’s now ready defence, he said the “prob­lems that were caused in the course of 15 years of PDP (Peo­ples Democratic Party) certainly cannot be solved in eight months.”

The minister, who said he was not holding brief for others, insisted that the Minister of State for Petroleum and Group Manag­ing Director of the Nigerian Na­tional Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, was doing his best in the given circum­stances.

“Take the oil subsidy regime (for instance). Now, there is a huge argument on how to balance the interest of the poor by not re­moving oil subsidy and the inter­est of the nation by ensuring that the rich do not have access to the so-called subsidy, and letting the oil subsidy go to enable investors come into the construction of re­fineries.

“It was a huge challenge to us because if you just leave the poor, they will die of poverty; the rich men will just exploit the chanc­es, so the need to balance it, and it is affecting the supply of fuel. The Minister of State for Petroleum is quite smart, but we need time and patience.

“Don’t forget that we met queues. The fact that it was re­solved quickly was not what you think. Until we find a permanent solution, we’re going to have those queues. We want understanding.”

According to him, there is nowhere in the world that change is not painful, and by the speech­es the party delivered during its electioneering campaigns, which he said were clear and carefully made, “we said we would confront corruption and we are confronting corruption. You may say they are cosmetic changes; the changes you are expecting are changes that af­fect your purse.



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Amazing clarification. The level of destruction and vandalism of the treasury incl entire central government machinery by the past government is extremely high.

If you don't turn water into wine soon enough, you will soon see what will happen to all of you, stup1d thief

JESU

I know tell una

Ameachi, receive sense once and for all. Take a look at your manifesto and you will see all the miracles you guys promised. It just funny seeing APC speaking with both sides of the tongue. We have a long way ahead.

Keneking:
Amazing clarification. The level of destruction and vandalism of the treasury incl entire central government machinery by the past government is extremely high.

And amaechi was not in the past government, your weed should be from North Korea abi na nuclear weed you they smoke?

shameless noisemaker ..

Is this the change they promised? Hardship like never before? Amaechi must be high on something !!!! Scammers.

Honestly I've stopped reading anything that has to do with Amaechi in it,but I can't help but comment to say that this Amaechi is going to run mad soon.

We have heard that before .. Kachikwu said he isn't a magician ..

Now, what did you promise

When did signing common budget become a miracle?

Any society that allows people like Ameachi to hang around in the corridor of power can never progress. This is not a curse but stark reality.

So what did u guys promised us? CHAINED abi

U no be miracle worker eh? So which one u come be na.. Ojuju calabar?

Somebody should tell this foool called Amaechi to shut the fvck up !

Wait ooo, last time I remember a certain Amaechi led his wing of money hungry governors forum to take the GEJ led FG to court for refusing to share some reserves yet some hediots would jump at every opportunity to do d usual of blaming the past govt for looting. I see it's simply a case of "old things have passed away and are now made new" once u jump ship to the APC..

Amaechi speaks through both sides of his mouth..

I can't really understand this man again... Can someone help me tell him that Nigerians are wiser.

when you were dancing colomental @ the campaign grounds, you forgot to tell us that APC gat nothing..was Gdluck a magician? we are not expecting miracles but stopping Fulani herdsmen from their atrocities and fixing them does not require magic, only sound IQ and being responsible. you pple have failed for now and you knw it well..To you its only magic can repair Nigeria that's wot you insinuate..

Change is a PROCESS Miracle is INSTANTANEOUS
They are not God or gods they are Humans

Nigeria shall be Great

Tell them.

Isn't it nauseating 2 hear an 8 yr speaker of a state HOA & anoda 8 yr governor of a state complain about the failure of the government of the last 16yrs
My Blood!!! Dis level of Hypocrisy is 2 hyper 4 me 2 fathom. Even the corrupt government of the past 16 yrs got some things ryt. How com dis government can't do one single thing right.

in oda to set d record straight n avoid lies n confusion as judas amechi is trying to do, dis ar d list of APC miracle promises to nigerians before d 2015 general elections:
Unfulfilled Miracles.
1. make N1 = $1.
2. stabilze world oyel prices.
3. sell petrol at N45 per litre.
4. pay N5,000 to 25 million unemployed yoots.
5. free skool feeding for nigerian chidren.
6. generate 20,000mw in 4 years.
7. generate 3million jobs yearly.

Unfulfilled Promises.
8. public declaration of asset by buari dullard n his ministers (up till now buari n his misters ar yet to publicly declare dem assets)
9. abolish d ''OFFICE'' of first lady.
10. obey rule of law.
11. conducting free n fair elections.
12. end boko haram in two months.
13. find chibokk girls in 3 months.
so far buari dullard APC govt have not fulfill any single promise.

All hail the lizard of obima

Tell them ooo

Kai God how did we end up with this bunch?
First mr Ameachi nobody is asking for a miracle, all we ask is fulfill ur campaign promises.
This people see us finish shaa, see Ameachi talking about 16 years too. SMH
The same 16 years he was part of. Na so we come mumu reach?

Why then did you create the impression that your party is full of miracle workers, cos it was this expected miracles that made the change chanters to cast their votes for your party? Now all of a sudden you've realized that indeed magic can't be perform in government, and uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Mr. minister, the power is now yours, and the expected miracles are long overdue.

From frying pan to fire with Baba one chance (aka Buhari).