President Muhammadu Buhari
Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has boasted that President Muhammadu Buhari would emerge victorious in Sokoto and Kwara in the 2019 elections even if the governors of the states defected from the ruling APC.
Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal and his colleague in Kwara, Abdulfatah Ahmed, are being rumoured to be planning to move to the opposition PDP.
And Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers state and a chieftain of the ruling party, told newsmen on Friday that despite the gale of defections in the party, the APC has nothing to worry about.
He also said even if Buhari was admitted to a hospital in parts of the country, he would still win.
“On those that defected at the House of Representatives and Senate, where do they come from? They come from areas that the President is comfortable. Do you honestly believe that the President will lose election in Sokoto? We are not God, but it’s one of his comfort zones,” he said.
“If you bring the President on a sick bed to Bauchi and Kano, he will win and he has never lost election in Bauchi. But that is a bit arrogant on our side; we should not underestimate them.
“I am not God. It is only God who can say the APC will win or not. But what is clear is that if you remove the God element, I think we are prepared to coast to victory because Nigerians will certainly reject a second looting. Nigeria can’t survive a second looting. Never!”