By Chibuike Nwabuko
ABUJA FCT – Human rights activist Comrade Shehu Sani has reacted to the comment credited to former minister of transportation and ex-governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, urging him to organise and lead the kind of protest he wants or wishes to see.
Shehu Sani’s response is coming against the backdrop of the recent interview granted by Amaechi, wherein he slammed Nigerian youth for not protesting the “high cost of living” in the country caused by the removal of subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu’s government.
Precise Post also recalls that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday, berated Amaechi for his uncomplimentary remarks on high cost of living against the party-led federal government, describing it as mischievous, unpatrootic, insensitive and god-awful, coming from one of Nigeria’s longest serving and highest ranking political freeloaders – a two-term Speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly, a two-term Governor, and a two-term Minister of Transport.
The party further alleged that the only real anger that Amaechi and his fellow tribesmen of naysayers of the likes of Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, must feel is that they are not in the saddle of government today.
Adding: “But that was a decision made by Nigeria’s ultimate political authority – the electorate. Nigerians are highly perceptive, discerning, demure, and mindful that economic discomforts associated with the administration’s inevitable reforms are transient and will pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring transformative dividends which are already beginning to manifest.
“Nigerians will not be cajoled into taking back through street violence what they handed to the administration through the ballot, as Amaechi and his partisan tribesmen would wish,” the APC added.
However, reacting to Amaechi’s comment, Shehu Sani said:
“His Royal Highness Hon Rotimi should organise and lead the kind of protest he wants or wishes to see.
