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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that he will support President Muhammadu Buhari’s preferred candidate for the 2023 presidential election.
According to a statement issues by his media office on Saturday, Amaechi stated this during a consultative meeting at the Rivers State APC secretariat, on Friday.
The minister, who spoke about fhis loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari, said if the president decides to back another candidate, he will fall in line.
“Loyalty is not when you are not chosen, you become disloyal, loyalty means you follow the man that leads you, that you have surrendered to his leadership.
“If you don’t follow, it means you are not loyal, you are only benefitting from the man politically and economically. The day he’s not able to give you that economic reality, is the day you become disloyal.
“I am a very loyal person, and those who are disloyal, I wish them well. Those who want to do whatever they want to do, I wish them well. The opportunity will be given to everybody, we will run this presidential election, we will run, and I am loyal to the president and I am loyal to the party.
“If the party says it is me, thank God. If the party says it is not me, whoever the party chooses, I will support. If the party and president choose anybody, I will support the person, if the party chooses me, I will be glad and say thank God,” he said.
Responding, the APC chairman in Rivers State, Emeka Bene, assured Amaechi of the party’s support and votes in the presidential primary.
“Sir, go home and sleep, Rivers delegates will vote for you, and I know my brothers who are statutory delegates will vote for you, because all of us seated here today from Rivers have benefitted from you, from your leadership and this is the time to pay you back. We will stand with you,” Beke said.