Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has been heard in another audio recording to be expressing shocking pessimistic views about Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose re-election bid he leads as Director-General.
Premium Times says it obtained the recording through Phrank Shaibu, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign.
Abubakar, a former vice-president, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is the main challenger of Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in next month’s presidential election.
The recording contains a portrayal of Buhari as an abysmal failure who has been unable to meet the expectations of various segments of the society, ending with a dismissal of Nigeria as a never-going-to-change hopeless nation.
The transcript of the recording reads: “These are not things you publish ooo. If you publish them, you will never sit with me any day.
“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying…pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!
“The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will never change!”
The claims, particularly regarding expectations, expressed in the recording may be correct.
Government reports show Buhari has presided over a worsening national job situation, with the unemployment rate standing at 23.1 per cent by the third quarter of 2018 up from 18.8 per cent per cent by the end of 2017.
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