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2023: Amaechi Joins Presidential Race

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants was boosted by a new aspirant yesterday after Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi formally declared his interest in the race. speaking at a special thanksgiving service organised by the Rivers State Chapter of the APC at Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Igwuurita-Ali in the state, Amaechi informed that his decision was borne out of concern for suffering Nigerians.



He said having served as Speaker of the State House of Assembly for eight years, governor for another eight years, and minister for seven years, “my years of experience has equipped me well.”


He said he was also “compelled by the urgency of our present challenges to place my experience and proven capacity at the service of the nation at the highest level.”


He said: “We are facing some very serious challenges as a country. These are problems of insecurity, challenges of greater accountability in governance, youth unemployment, and the scourge of spiral poverty.


“These problems are however not the exclusive preserve of Nigerians. We live in a troubled world; the reality we use to know has altered in nearly every nation.”


Amaechi said he would serve Nigerians as a servant and not a master, adding that he would be President to all Nigerians if elected into office.


He then jogged round the stadium to prove his physical fitness for the job.


At the declaration ceremony were Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, former national chairman of the APC Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and Senator Ali Ndume, among others.


Amaechi had late last month said on Arise Television that he had no interest in the presidential race.


He asked groups and individuals urging him to join the race to rather give him the money for nomination forms.

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