The African Democratic Congress (ADC) vice presidential candidate, Rotimi Amaechi, has said only mad people will vote for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election.
Amaechi made the remark on Thursday at a town hall meeting in Edo State, where he urged residents to reject Tinubu and back the opposition party in the forthcoming poll.
“They are going about saying ‘Vote Tinubu! Vote Tinubu!’ Only thieves can vote for Tinubu. In fact, I read a comment on social media where someone said, ‘It’s in 2027 that we will know how many mad men we have in Nigeria.”
“Because it’s only a mad people that can vote for Tinubu. If Edo people vote for President Tinubu, that means Edo people are mad. If you’re not mad, Tinubu should not win here,” he said.
The former Minister of Transportation also accused the Tinubu administration of choosing projects on the basis of alleged financial interests rather than what he described as the wider economic needs of Nigerians.
He singled out the planned construction of another seaport in Ogun State, questioning whether the state produces enough cargo to justify further port infrastructure.
“So, Tinubu just hates you. No, I’m not joking. If Tinubu does not hate you, why is he building another seaport? In Ogun, what are the goods we are producing? What goods are we producing to have as many as that number of seaports? It is not because he likes Ogun people. It is the money he will make out of the construction.”
Amaechi cautioned opposition supporters against staying away from the country or the electoral process while expecting a change of government.
“If you want Tinubu to go, please go home. Go home. Go home,” he said.
On the fuel subsidy, the ADC vice presidential candidate said an ADC government would reintroduce the subsidy in a different form, which he called a production subsidy.
“When we bring back subsidy, it’s not that one that will produce rich men. That subsidy where rich men will go to Ghana and come back to say, ‘We have bough fuel for you’. We are bringing back a subsidy called Production subsidy. If you don’t have a refinery in Nigeria, you will not get subsidy. We don’t have to pay for it. Government will not pay for the subsidy. All the government needs to do is to make a policy.
“The price at which I sell crude on the international market and price with which I sell crude in the Nigerian market will be different. I will do domestic pricing. If I sell crude at N15,000 on the international market, in Nigeria, I will sell to Dangote at N10,000. And here we have four modular refineries. The difference will be N5,000. I will then sit with Dangote and the modular refiners and tell them to give me a subsidy of N5,000. Once that happens, the price of fuel will come down. When the price of fuel comes down, the price of everything will go down.”
