Peter Obi’s Comment About Me Being Politically Irrelevant Is Cheap – Rotimi Amaechi

]Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has blasted defeated vice presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, for saying he was not relevant enough in Bayelsa State to talk about if Igbo should produce a president in 2023 or not.

Rotimi, who spoke on the sidelines, at an interactive forum of Maritime Stakeholders in Lagos, yesterday, said Peter Obi should say nothing on the matter since he failed to emerge victorious in the recent presidential election.

His words, “Obi said I’m not an Igbo man and that I don’t have the locus to discuss whether Igbo presidency will be or not in 2023. That comment is a very sad and cheap one from him.

“But the truth is that Obi too does not have the locus to speak about Igbo presidency because he and his party couldn’t win the presidential election. Aside from that, it’s most unfortunate that Obi, a man I defeated to become the Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, when we were both governors, can wake up today to say I am not relevant in the polity to talk about national issues when journalists ask me questions about it.”

“I think what is important, which I have said to the Igbo severally is that they need to be part of national politics. If they are not part of national politics they cannot be President. National politics means that an Ikwerre man must have his interest covered by the Igbo if they want to be President. The Yoruba man must have the Igbo cover their interests, the Hausa, Fulani people must also be confident that their interests are covered by the Igbo.”