The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the former governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi “is unpatriotic”.
The APC said this in reaction to statement credited to Amaechi, a former minister of transportation.
Amaechi had said that he is disappointed in Nigerians for their seeming laid-back disposition to the widespread economic hardship in the country.
“There should be protests. Not even protests against anybody but against the politicians that ‘we won’t vote’,” he said.
However, a statement issued on Friday, Felix Morka, APC national spokesperson, said Amaechi is “a leading participant in the generational devastation of our country’s economy”.
“Attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into his web of false empathy and incitement to violence is hypocritical, provocative and dangerous,” Morka said.
“The only real anger that Amaechi and his fellow tribesmen of naysayers of the likes of Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, must feel is that they are not in the saddle of government today.
“But that was a decision made by Nigeria’s ultimate political authority – the electorate.
“Nigerians are highly perceptive, discerning, demure, and mindful that economic discomforts associated with the administration’s inevitable reforms are transient and will pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which are already beginning to manifest.
“Nigerians will not be cajoled into taking back through street violence what they handed to the administration through the ballot, as Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen would wish.”
The APC national spokesperson said the former governor should be busy “trying to solve the crippling crisis in Rivers state that he once governed”.