Resign as minister, PDP tells Amaechi

Following the appointment of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as Director General of President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate resignation of the  from the Federal Executive Council, .
PDP also accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of insensitive to the plight of Nigerians.
In a statement yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party recalled that Chief Tony Anenih as then Minister of Works, resigned when he was appointed to head the campaign of then President Olusegun Obasanjo re-election campaign in 2003.

“If APC has any strand of dignity, then Amaechi must resign as the Minister of Transportation, having been appointed and already functioning as the DG of President Buhari’s Campaign.

“Under the constitution of Nigeria, Mr. Amaechi cannot combine the job of a minister of the Federal Republic with another responsibility such as the DG of a campaign organization.

“Amaechi’s action in accepting the job while still holding office as minister is in clear breach of the oath of office and the oath of allegiance which he swore in line with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as Amended).

“He should therefore resign his office as minister with immediate effect”, it said.
The party noted that Amaechi has already begun to function as the DG Campaign for Buhari second term, adding that, he already held meetings with some of the governors elected on the platform of the APC.

It accused the ruling APC of being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians, noting that the party was more interested in setting up an electoral structure for a second term when Nigerians are dying daily of hunger and poverty while others are being slaughtered in their communities by mauraders.

“Is it not instructive for Nigerians to now know that the APC has not the littlest agenda on governance for our people and do not have the interest of Nigerians at heart? They have shown that all they care for is their selfish political and pecuniary interests,” the PDP said.