The Governor of Rivers State and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has assured Nigerians that his party will be magnanimous in victory, having won the presidential election.
Speaking at the party’s National Secretariat Tuesday, Amaechi sai: “After each state result had been-announced, it became clear to the nation that APC has won the election and we will be magnanimous in victory because the challenges are much, it is not only about celebration of victory, it is about arduousness of governance and we must show the difference between us and the current government.
“If we say there was incompetence, we must show competence, if we say there was corruption we must show that we will not be corrupt, if we say that people were denied of their basic rights, we must protect their rights, if we say there was impunity,we must govern by the rule of law, and once we show that Nigerians will see the difference between us and the current government.”
When asked to explain what the victory meant to him, Ameachi said: “Quiet a lot. As the Director-General of the campaign, it is good to me, I begin to tell my children that for the first time in the history of Nigeria the opposition party was able to root out the government in power and the party in power by presenting a different picture of what life looks like, of given the people the courage to confront the current government and confront what was going on, confront corruption, confront the reality of the fact that Nigerians are hungry, that they don’t go to market as Nigerians do, they have the kind of fund and can eat the kind of food they want and Nigerians are hungry, to let Nigerians know that Boko Haram was not about religion alone but there was poverty and hunger and we have to deal with education and the issue of unemployment in the North and also in the south, and to also make people realise that religion is not an issue in Nigeria”
