Former transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi, says he’s a better candidate to be voted president because he understands the sufferings of poor Nigerians.

“I can connect easily with the people. I wasn’t born into a rich family. My father was a poor man, and the only English my mother knows how to speak is pidgin English.

“I ate garri three times a day, and I still eat garri three times a day till today, so I know poverty”, Mr Amaechi said.

Mr Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers, made this assertion while canvassing for votes from All Progressives Congress delegates in Niger State on Thursday.

“I know what you’re suffering; I was governor of Rivers State when they were kidnapping two months old children, and I never slept until everybody slept. But in six months, we brought down insecurity in Rivers State,” the presidential aspirant added.

Mr Amaechi is not the first politician to project himself as one who understands the yearnings of Nigerians.

In 2011, former President Goodluck Jonathan, wormed his way into the hearts of many voters by portraying himself as a poor Otuoke boy who grew without shoes.

Similarly, President Muhammadu Buhari rode on the same sentiments to power in 2015, projecting himself as a poor candidate who had no house in Abuja and could not afford the APC presidential form.

https://gazettengr.com/i-eat-garri-three-times-daily-poor-amaechi-begs-nigerians-for-vote/

These type of people don't deserve to be in our political space. They have absolutely nothing to offer.

RED FLAG

Hmm, my father always told me..."never trust a poor man with power"

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“I ate garri three times a day, and I still eat garri three times a day till today, so I know poverty”, Mr Amaechi said.


That a definite red card
Just when i was thinking maybe just maybe
And then this bullshit.
This is a no no situation this guy will eat up the country wipe his mouth and say he's only got a cup of water and he is looking for garri .

Amaechi is just a younger Tinubu .

WesternOligarch:
Hmm, my father always told me..."never trust a poor man with power"

Your father is correct

Believe their words at your own peril.

So it will be a garri eating competition.

North 2023

Why can't politicians be more realistic and tell us how they will salvage Nigerian situation rather than this bull crap of how they were born Into acute poverty.

Gari was the standard staple food for many families and not just poor families. He should at least enumerate ways of banishing unemployment via job creation schemes, investment drive and welfare benefits for unemployed graduates.
I am not impressed.

And that garri is the one made with coold water.
Hungree politicians it's food time oooh....

What you eat is what you are. but it's a pitty you only know what to loot, but you dont know what to eat.
this shows that you will kill us with garri if we vote for you.

You eat garri 3x in a day, that is 111 and you said you know poverty. You are a rich man, you get money for cooking soup and garri. Sorry, that is not poverty. Poor people hardly eat two times a day, it is always 100