₦airaland Forum

Former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi has stated that he prefers Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to that of President Bola Tinubu.

Amaechi made this statement during a discussion on an X Space titled Weekend Politics on Saturday.

“Buhari’s government is 100 times better than Tinubu’s government. For Christ’s sake, were you dying of hunger? What we pay here is N1 million every week for power (N4 million in a month).

“How many people can afford that? Then you have to buy diesel of about N300,000 aside from feeding and staff salary,” Amaechi asserted.

He went on to lament the current situation, maintaining that Nigerians were better off under the previous administration than they are under Tinubu’s leadership.

“But it was not like that when Buhari was in power. Why are we comparing diamond to gold? In fact, this government is not even gold at all,” he added.


Amaechi’s remarks follow his defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, where he now aligns with prominent figures such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Governor Nasir El-Rufai.

Amaechi also pledged to back ADC’s presidential candidate, provided the nominee emerges from a free and fair primary election.

“In a free and fair primary, whoever wins will have my full support. I will be deeply devoted to the campaign and will do everything in my power to help ADC unseat this current, clueless government.


“I will abandon the coastal road; that road is for stealing. Electoral reforms are the lowest-hanging fruit for me if I become President. There will be electoral reforms in my first six months,” he stated.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/08/09/buharis-government-100-times-better-than-tinubus-amaechi

Folks, please, is this man a FOOL or what??
You make statements like this through surrogates because you were Buhari’s Government!

Amaechi is very correct on this one
Tinubu government is the worst in Nigeria history

Mr Amaechi talks without decorum.

He is not the type to lead a country.

Where is the lie?

He said it the way it is. Tinubu is the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria

Igirigimercenar:
Where is the lie?

He said it the way it is. Tinubu is the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria

Why not ask one of Tinubu's ministers to give his opinion. Same way Amaechi was a minister for Buhari

....... No more discussion, it's clear this man have lost his sanity

Or maybe he have started taking advice from Peter Obi adviser?

What Buhari government?

DeLaRue:
Mr Amaechi talks without decorum.

He is not the type to lead a country.

He trained Wike

Gorem2013:
....... No more discussion, it's clear this man have lost his sanity

Or maybe he have started taking advice from Peter Obi adviser?

What Buhari government?

Where is the lie in everything he said?

Buhari government is truly better than this clueless and Calamity government

I used to think Obi was the most desperate politician in Nigeria now I have a rethink as Amaechi is beginning to appear frustrated and more desperate.

From you are hungry to you are going to cancel Lagos/Calabar coastal road, are you going to cancel Kano Maradi road? The road you took Chinese loan to build just for a mere chieftancy title.

Amaechi is an enemy of the South

What else do you expect from him? He was a minister that was getting direct money steady from Buhari. But now that he is jobless and hungry, you don't expect less from him.

LagosOrigin:
Amaechi is very correct on this one
Tinubu government is the worst in Nigeria history

You mean it? Whaoo! Sorry, you have no choice but to manage him till 2031 since Obi and Amechi are not competent enough to lead Nigeria in this era. If your own problem why you hate Tinubu is hunger, be bold to say it so I can find a way to get you "two wrap of fufu" to hold your body so you can see wonders that Tinubu is doing

LagosOrigin:
Amaechi is very correct on this one
Tinubu government is the worst in Nigeria history

I am very happy ameachi is now among the few that knows how to press Obidients mumu bottom 🤣🤣🤣

DeLaRue:
Mr Amaechi talks without decorum.

He is not the type to lead a country.

Absolutely. Amaechi is hghly and condemnably irresponsible in both words and action. A total disaster.

I've lived away from Nigeria for many years starting from early teens so I've been influenced by other nations.

It is returning to Nigeria and formally engaging in business ownership that has shown me Nigeria is the worst nation in the world per those totally unfit for political and public administration leadership gaining important positions.

Look at UK politics for example. Keir Starmer is a fitting Prime Minister who deserves office from being a dogged, ever present and valiant leader of the Labour Party who led them to victory because he was always available to espouse the merits of the Party and reiterate the need for the British people to vote Labour.

Atiku, after losing election, returns to Dubai and totally abandons/neglects the affair of the political Party he ran on to then show up four years latter demanding to be President. How can any sane and fairly politically sophisticated Nigerian vote for such a character who'd be viewed a caricature, aberration and joke in British and European politics?

In fact, Atiku is a tragic reminder of how politically unsophisticated, to their own detriment, most Nigerians are.

I want honest people, whoever they support, to really reflect on issues and point to any Politician who wants to be President in 2027, other than Tinubu, who practices Party politics as Starmer and his peers in the West do.

Tinubu is always exemplarily available working hard relentlessly and dedicately for any Party he has built and helping such reach the apex of Nigerian politics be it ACN or APC.

He gives his all demonstrating always, as an example of desirable world best practice , what fit and proper political leaders , who should be in charge of the lives of an electorate , must be about.

Even Datti Baba Ahmed recently praised Tinubu's special and unique quality of building his ambition to be President over decades of loyalty and devotion to sacrificing for others selflessly and doing the right thing [b]always by his political Party and affiliates.

He warned ADC they would fail if they do not have leaders whose main interests are genuinely about what is best for Nigeria and can sacrifice for her greater good as Tinubu has consistently done.[/b]

From Atiku, Aregbe, El Rufai, Malami, Babachir Lawal and Obi to Ameachi etal, they are all disloyal and desperate opportunist jumping ship in pursuit of selfish ambitions to then be attacking the political Party they have departed yet previously swore was the best to deliver Nigeria.

It is nauseating and saddening to watch as an exposed individual. I.e the lack of principles and enduring political ideology by so many politicians bar a few like PBAT, Bode George, Ken Nnamani etal.

If I had the power of God, I'd simply instil requisite political sophistication in every Nigerian adult, so they can see what truly matters , because I believe that is what Nigeria needs, more than anything else, to become truly great.

WizardOfNG you forgot to mention Dino Malaye in that list. 😁

Softmirror:
WizardOfNG you forgot to mention Dino Malaye in that list. 😁

Lol. Indeed. Melaye the boss af agbero and Lamborghini politics. Below was a disastrous low for Nigeria's image and politics courtesy of Melaye.

I.e his appearance in court on a stretcher and pretending to be comatose. Yet the Nairalanders desperate to see the back of PBAT are now cheerleaders of the likes of this clown Melaye.

I am slipping bro. Walayi. How did I forget Melaye ? 😅😅😂

Buhari government 1000000 times better thank thus disaster we have now.

Not really ... Tinubu made a grave mistake by removing subsidy right from eagle square when he hadn't even taken a factual appraisal bof the economy ...His govt will go down as the worst in history because of that singular mistake...Have you realised Nigerians have not known economic Joy from the first minute he stepped into Eagle square ?

Well, if you take a poll and ask 10M Nigerians which government of the two they prefer, 9.9M will go with Buhari’s

I will abandon the coastal road; that road is for stealing. Electoral reforms are the lowest-hanging fruit for me if I become President. There will be electoral reforms in my first six months,” he stated.

Even God in heaven knows the President has made trillions of naira from coastal road,east-west road some parts are bushy, and somebody is talking of coastal road of fraud,not only abandoning the road probe the chagoury hitech construction and banish them from the country.

Amaechi was building rail lines not roads

Ttalk:
I used to think Obi was the most desperate politician in Nigeria now I have a rethink as Amaechi is beginning to appear frustrated and more desperate.

From you are hungry to you are going to cancel Lagos/Calabar coastal road, are you going to cancel Kano Maradi road? The road you took Chinese loan to build just for a mere chieftancy title.

Amaechi is an enemy of the South

Noted.

Former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi has stated that he prefers Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to that of President Bola Tinubu.

i swear to God na lie.

fourty more characters needed

I wish e possible make we dey stone this people. Dem dey politicize our suffering. Ameachi shouldn’t be talking

DeLaRue:
Mr Amaechi talks without decorum.

He is not the type to lead a country.

I suppose the man who said "na statistics we go chop?", qualifies to lead in your view

Of course it is the best for you.

Simply because you were able to collect your 5% kickback in cash on over $5 billion railway projects. The best presidency that put looted cash in your personal vault.

He was a minister in the Buharia administration for 8 years even tho he has almost nothing to show for it.

And in Tinubu's administration he is nothing.

It's very easy to see why he would prefer the Buhari administration.

Amaechi that calls himself an IGBO Man in order to curry some favour is now the leading opposition figure in the country.

8 years as a Speaker !
8 years as a Governor !
8 years as a Super Minister !!!

Now he's angry because he is not in the Government for the first time since 1999.

Is he the Right Man to fight for the masses ⁉️

Lol see desperation, man who claim they buy 150 laptop to insult people. The same idiot who wanted to stop the maritime university in the south with an excuse that one is already in existence in oron.

Tinubu is just trying to see if his policies will work,
Implement a policy that is digging holes in the citizens pocket, therefore enriching urselves and ur cronies, u borrow money from the world bank and then reward already paid athletes yet the teachers and doctors are suffering cos u refuse to pay them their salaries,
Tinubu is working truly but working to corner all our money for the next election