ABUJA, Nigeria — Former Minister
of Transportation and ex-Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared
that he can unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election —
but only if he clinches the African Democratic Congress (ADC) ticket.
Speaking during an X Spaces
conversation on Saturday, August 9, 2025, Amaechi said that while he had never
directly contested against Tinubu, he knew the president’s “strengths” and
“weaknesses” well enough to secure victory.
“I know Tinubu very well… if
allowed to fly the flag of ADC, I will defeat Tinubu for sure,” Amaechi stated
confidently.
The former APC chieftain stressed
that he had never participated in election rigging, claiming he repeatedly
turned down appointments to serve on the party’s election planning committees.
“I challenge any politician,
living or dead, to come forward and say I was part of rigging,” he said,
promising to reveal inside details about such committees if he wins the ADC
primaries.
Amaechi alleged that electoral
malpractice in Nigeria is often orchestrated by state governors, with public
funds diverted through government agencies to influence elections.
“They will bring governors, they
will go to government agencies and get money, but the rest, I don’t want to say
it until I win primaries,” he hinted.
He vowed to make the elimination
of electoral fraud a central pillar of his presidency.
“I will never participate in any
rigging whatsoever… What I promise to do now, going forward, is to stop
rigging.”
The former minister also said he
would only apologise for wrongdoing if concrete evidence of his involvement in
malpractice emerged.
On the 2023 polls, Amaechi
acknowledged that Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, likely won
in Rivers State.
“I would agree to an extent that
Peter Obi won in Rivers State, but unfortunately, the result that came out was
different. How it happened, I have no idea.”
Amaechi, who on July 3 pledged to
serve only one term if elected in 2027, reiterated his support for Nigeria’s
unwritten rotational power agreement between the north and south.
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