2023: Amaechi promises his tenure will eradicate insecurity and poverty

Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation and Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, said he would put an end to insecurity and poverty in the country if elected in 2023.

While addressing delegates of the APC in Katsina State, the home state of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) during his consultative visit on Monday, he said if things don’t change soon, Nigeria may disintegrate to the point where there’s a total division between the rich and the poor to the detriment of peace and security in the country.

“If Nigeria does not move back to agriculture and move from agriculture to industrial and manufacturing, the breakup you’ll see is the poor versus the rich.

“It will not be Muslims versus Christians or North versus South. It will be the poor versus the rich. So we must build the Nigerian economy to accommodate the poor. If you don’t accommodate the poor, you will run away.

“Have you heard of Songhai farm? Three hundred hectares of Songhai farm, the biggest Songhai farm in the world was built by me. We built hostels for 500 farmers, when we train you and graduate you, we give you money, give you product to go and start your own farm, then we take another 500.

“We began to produce. By the time I left office, the farm was producing money to run itself, no more government money. We created 2000 hectares of Banana farm. We did it partly to create employment. Every day we employed 500 persons.”