Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation and ex- governor of Rivers state, says that if he and Sule Lamido were still state governors, they would have challenged President Bola Tinubu over the nations current state of affairs.
Amaechi made this remark on Tuesday in Abuja during the presentation of Lamido’s autobiography, ‘Bring True to Myself’.
He said that their era was marked with bold opposition and desire to hold the federal government accountable.
“I asked Lamido this morning if the current political happenings in Nigeria would have taken place when we were governors. He said no and I agree. We would have confronted the government, confronted the president. That’s how determined we were to change things” he said.
Reflecting on his relationship with Lamido, he noted that they allies during their time in the government. He acknowledged that despite their ups and downs, they were determined to make reforms.
“We were quite good friends in government. We had our bad times when we disagreed. I made the mistake of assuming he was as radical as I was. So, he was one of the governor’s I clung to when he came to radical decisions, he said.
“The last one before we broke ranks was when we all agreed to go against President Jonathan. We formed a committee of governors and others. At the end of the day, he went to find a new party, the SDP. We said, ‘If we go to the SDP, we will lose the election. Let’s hang on to this one called the APC.’ He disagreed and left us. That’s where we parted ways.”
