African Democratic Congress (ADC) vice-presidential candidate Rotimi Amaechi has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his economic policies, vowing that he will abandon his own party ticket and campaign for Tinubu if the price of petrol drops to ₦600 per liter.
Amaechi issued the challenge during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, reacting to President Tinubu’s Independence Day declaration that Nigeria has entered an “age of prosperity.”
Questioning the credibility of the administration’s claims, Amaechi argued that everyday citizens continue to face crushing economic reality.
“It is about believability; who do you believe? Go to the 2005 Presidential speech; it is the same: we have turned the page, and we are about to start enjoyment.
“Have you asked one of your staff who goes by transport, how much it costs from Yanya to Abuja? Has anything come down? Has any price come down, has anything changed?”
Proposing a direct test of the administration’s claims, Amaechi stated he would personally visit a petrol station to verify pump prices, offering to withdraw from the ADC ticket alongside presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar if retail costs have genuinely fallen.
“I will go tomorrow morning to the petrol station to buy fuel, I will go myself, if fuel has come down to 600, I will campaign for President Tinubu,” he said.
“If you doubt me, come with your camera to my house, and I will go to the filling station and buy fuel, and I, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi will withdraw as a vice-presidential candidate of Atiku and campaign for President Tinubu, if it has come down.”
