ADC vice-presidential candidate Rotimi Amaechi says Nigerians miss late former President Muhammadu Buhari because they were better off under his administration.

“I always like to quote the former president, Buhari. He will say, ‘People will call me back.’ Nigerians will say, ‘We miss former President Buhari’; are they not saying that now?”

“The reason why they are saying that is: compare your life when President Buhari was alive and was the president of Nigeria, and your life now; which one will you choose?”

He said the dollar was ₦600 and petrol below ₦300 at Buhari’s exit.

“By the time we left office, dollar was at 600, by the time we left office, fuel was below 300, the stealing in Buhari’s government, if there was stealing in Buhari’s government, can you compare it to what is going on now?”

“What is going on now is what I call ‘Alibaba and the 40 thieves’.”

Amaechi alleged that contractors in the Transportation Ministry had been arrested during his tenure.

“They have arrested almost all the contractors in the Ministry of transport, looking for what I have done in the ministry.”

On the coastal road: “The president chose to construct the coastal road because of the benefits he will get.”

Asked to name problems inherited from Buhari, he replied, “Name one.”

Backing the ADC’s plan to reintroduce fuel subsidy, he said:

“We (the ADC) have said we will reintroduce fuel subsidy because the fuel subsidy he removed was wrong; Buhari refused to remove fuel subsidy because he told us clearly. In fact, thank God he didn’t; I was among those pushing that he should remove fuel subsidy; he said no, it was wrong.”

He added, “Atiku has come up with a better procedure to manage fuel subsidy. We are reintroducing production fuel subsidy. If you don’t produce in Nigeria, we will not give you subsidy. It encourages the establishment of refineries.”

ASA