President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking a second term in office (photo credit: TVC)
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for saying that President Muhammadu Buhari can even win election from a sickbed in 2019.
“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,” the minister had said on Friday.
But the National President of the party Prince Uche Secondus says that Amaechi’s submissions suggest that those of them in his administration “actually know that the president is sick.”
He, therefore, called on Nigerians to demand for a healthy president in 2019.
He said, “If Amaechi could say that the President would win on a sickbed, then he knows the health status of his principal. He knows that we have a sick leader who will not be able to give his maximum attention to the country.
“We don’t need such a man at this critical time. We need a President who will be able to work 24 hours and read all memos, stand at meetings and debate with people and the parliament. We don’t need a figurehead president that the likes of Amaechi are praying for.
“I know that people like him want a president they can deceive, who will not be on top of happenings in their ministries and in the country. They want a president who won’t watch television and who will not read newspapers. If that is what they want, they will meet their Waterloo in 2019.”