Minister of Transport, Hon Chibuike Amaechi has called on the Igbo to support President Muhammadu Buhari for second term as a way of giving him the chance to serve out the term of the north and make way for the Igbos.
Amaechi who was at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka as the convocation lecturer to mark its 12th convocation spoke on the topic, “The Igbo in the politics of Nigeria.”
“We are not here for campaign, we are here for an academic exercise. If we were here for campaign, I would not be putting on this (academic gown), but we must tell ourselves the truth about what Buhari has done.
“You (Igbos) did not vote for Buhari, true or false? You voted for PDP and what did they do for you? PDP abandoned the Enugu-Onitsha expressway since 1999, but Buhari is working on it with despatch, true or false?
“Buhari is working on the second Niger Bridge, he is working on the Otuocha-Ibaji-Abuja road, he is working on the Abakaliki-Onueke road, he is working on the Oji-Achi-Naku road in Enugu State, he is working on Ozalla-Akpugo-Amagunze road. He is also working on Aba-Ikot Ekpene road.
“Under Buhari, all major cities of the south east are captured in the existing railway project. Name one government that has done up to this within two years. Our problem is that we are just being emotional.”
The minister called on the Igbo to rather focus on the solutions to their problems in politics, instead of recriminations, saying that part of the solution was to move into a national party after having been disappointed by sectional parties.
He described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as regional parties which do not hold hope for the Igbos.
