Nigeria’s transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has been heard in an audio recording to be expressing shocking pessimistic views about Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose re-election bid he leads.
The recording was shared with PREMIUM TIMES by Phrank Shaibu, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign.
Mr Abubakar, billionaire former vice-president, of the Peoples Democratic Party, is the main challenger of Mr Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in next month’s presidential election.
The recording contains a portrayal of Mr Buhari as a dismal failure who has been unable to meet the expectations of various segments of the society, ending with a dismissal of Nigeria as a never-going-to-change hopeless nation.
The transcript of the recording reads: “These are not things you publish ooo. If you publish them, you will never sit with me any day.
“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying…pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!
“The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will never change!”
PREMIUM TIMES has not independently verified the recording.
The claims, particularly regarding expectations, expressed in the recording may be correct.
Government’s own official information shows Mr Buhari has presided over a worsening national job situation, with the unemployment rate standing at 23.1 per cent by the third quarter of 2018 up from 18.8 per cent per cent by the end of 2017.
However, government officials argue jobs are not dropping but that it is the number of people entering the working age bracket that is outpacing the existing opportunities in the labour market.
Invariably, poverty, under Mr Buhari, also continues to soar, a crisis Nigeria has experienced for decades.
According to the World Bank 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals, between 1990 and 2013, Nigeria added 35 million people to its poverty population, jumping from 51 million to 86 million (and now over 100 million). Of the 10 populous countries surveyed, Nigeria is the only country that failed to reduce poverty.
By 2018, Nigeria has overtaken China and is only behind India, arguably, with the highest number of extremely poor people within one national territory.
In an earlier recording also shared by the Atiku campaign, Mr Amaechi appeared to be describing Mr Buhari as a leader that does not listen and care.
According to the recording: “The president does not listen to anybody. He doesn’t care. You can write what you want to write. The president doesn’t care. Does he read? He will read, he will laugh. He will say ‘come, come and see, they are abusing me here’.
“In fact, there was one case of somebody in Onitsha, a trader in Onitsha who couldn’t sell his goats during Sallah. And I was with Oga on the plane and the man was busy abusing Buhari. He said, ‘Amaechi, come, what is my business with Onitsha goat seller?’”
When contacted, David Iyofor, the spokesperson for Mr Amaechi, said the minister’s team was still reviewing the recording and needed more time to do so before commenting on the matter.
Meanwhile, Mr Shaibu said the leaked tape has shown that even the president’s appointees lacked confidence in his ability to transform the country.
He said, “The President should just quit honourably instead of wasting taxpayers monies on a failed reelection bid.
“The truth is that the other day, the President confessed that the economy had collapsed under his watch.
“On another occasion, the wife confessed to the fact that, the canal and not her dearest husband, President Buhari was in-charge of the country and now, the Director General Of his re-election campaign has confessed to the lack of capacity of President Buhari and the dismal failure of his administration.
“Truth is, the President has established a record of failures which probably no other President would ever equal or erase. Mrs Aishat Buhari was partially correct when she stated that two people are preventing her husband from performing well. With this audio tape, if the two don’t include her husband then she is not completely being truthful.”
It is not the first time a minister would appear to be expressing no confidence in the leadership of Mr Buhari in a leaked recording.
Former minister for women affairs, Aisha Alhassan, was in a recording – which he admitted – saying she preferred Mr Abubakar to Mr Buhari as president from 2019.



http://www.thengtimes.com/2019/01/rotimi-amaechi.html?m=1

"Invariably, poverty, under Mr Buhari, also continues to soar, a crisis Nigeria has experienced for decades." Hmm

If you need any more Clarification of the incompetence here you have it...

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Fire in the enermy camp.

God said, I will fight your battle and you shall hold your peace

Zombies won't believe any news against their paymaster

the info is on Premium times...


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/304352-under-buhari-nigerians-are-hungry-poverty-is-growing-amaechi-says-in-secret-tape.html

PMB is a confirmed failure.

junkiesneverdie:
If you need any more Clarification of the incompetence here you have it...

Somehow the truth must be told someday.

now that ameachi has testify that buhari serial failure am waiting for lai Mohammed n fashola to come up with eir own

At this rate, only Yoruba Muslims will remain with Buhari.
Even his campaign DG has deserted him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbX68QnOoU

APC has no cohesive ideology. Just a gathering of power hungry strange bed fellows

Nonsense. How is a country whose revenue has been going down suppose to grow beyond this?

How is a country whose previous leaderships are all thieves suppose to grow beyond this?

How is a country that spent $16 billion dollars to buy darkness suppose to grow beyond this?

Even Yusuf and Zahra are ashamed of their daddy's incompetence. Anytime they go out to ride powerbike at night, their friends always yab them calling them omo baba go slow or omo baba unaware or children who's father is operated by two men with remote control

God will not forgive anybody that votes INCOMPETENCE walking on two legs. Buhari does not have what it takes to be president. How can POVERTY personified help this country?. When other nations are moving at supersonic speed, we are contending with BABA GO SLOW. Boko Haram is gaining momentum day by day.

ordinarily this is enough to nail this administration.

A senior minister admitting the obvious.

But trust Yoruba zombies to tell us something else.

We keep ranting, yet we can do nothing.
Election will be hijacked to favour the best rigging party.
Democracy is failed in this country.


Publishing thousands of implicating videos and evidences doesn't change anything.
That's a fact we should accept as long as this government is still in progress.

Hopefully, things will take a good turn after this government is done messing it up.

Well, since Amaechi the DG of campaign has admitted that buhari is a failure, and everyone is crying. Who am I to deny what his minister said?

Buhari is a failure, and voting him next month means certifiying and dignifying failure..

“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying…pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!
“The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will never change!”

That Buhari as a dismal failure is not in dispute, but for the very man appointed to head his reelection campaign to express these views, shows that we are finished as a nation, should we allow this colossal failure beyond 2019. Nigeria, here's your chance to send the Daura President packing.

Two things. Either APC grabs the lizard of Ubiama by the tail and deal with it seriously, or they will lie and try to confuse Nigerians as usual.

Ok. Next !!

Quite pathetic!

This Amachi Tape tells us that everyone under Buhari's government are all tired but fear couldn't allowed them to cry out.


Join us as we get Nigeria working again

Atiku the next president

Sirjamo:
[s]Nonsense. How is a country whose revenue has been going down suppose to grow beyond this?

How is a country whose previous leaderships are all thieves suppose to grow beyond this?

How is a country that spent $16 billion dollars to buy darkness suppose to grow beyond this?[/s]

This one's muslim jamorudeen zombie skull keep deceiving him. The mor0nic cretin should be living in stone ages, he is born to defend power-hungry tyrannic dumbfuckks with empty skulls like his.

DauraIsAGoal:
At this rate, only Yoruba Muslims will remain with Buhari.
Even his campaign DG has deserted him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbX68QnOoU

It is finished. I have always reasoned this Buhari's government as 'not working'.

Back in 2016 used to believe D government has something good in store for Nigerians. But 2 years later I realized the government had no direction, and then I stopped supporting the lifeless man.

APC under Buhari can't not go to any level.

Front page oo. Lalasticlala

Still studying to do what? Just agree because this is not doctored.

this is pathetic

Sirjamo:
Nonsense. How is a country whose revenue has been going down suppose to grow beyond this?

How is a country whose previous leaderships are all thieves suppose to grow beyond this?

How is a country that spent $16 billion dollars to buy darkness suppose to grow beyond this?

If Amechi said all U said in is leaked recording I would have agreed with U. But Amechi clearly said under 3 years "every body is crying". He ended by saying just "3 years oo"

BucciJP:
this is pathetic

More than pathetic