Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said he will back whoever President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) picked as candidate ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
He said although his ambition is to become the country’s next president, but as a loyal party man, he is ready to jettisoned his aspiration for collective party interest and that of the president.
According to a statement released by his media office, the minister spoke during a consultative meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
He said, “Loyalty is not when you are not chosen, you become disloyal, loyalty means you follow the man that leads you, that you have surrendered to his leadership.
“If you don’t follow, it means you are not loyal, you are only benefitting from the man politically and economically. The day he’s not able to give you that economic reality, is the day you become disloyal.
“I am a very loyal person, and those who are disloyal, I wish them well, those who want to do whatever they want to do, I wish them well. The opportunity will be given to everybody, we will run this presidential election, we will run, and I am loyal to the president and I am loyal to the party.
“If the party says it is me, thank God. If the party says it is not me, whoever the party chooses, I will support. If the party and president choose anybody, I will support the person, if the party chooses me, I will be glad and say thank God.”
