Thanks for Not Converting to Muslim – Amaechi Speaks on His Relationship With Buhari

The Minister of Transportation,  Rotimi Amaechi has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for not converting him to Islam.

While stating that he was misunderstood and criticised for associating with the president, Amaechi who said this on Wednesday at the valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council narrated how he was almost chased out of Christ the King Catholic Church in 2014 for supporting the president, whom they alleged was trying to Islamise the country.

“Mr. President, let me thank you for not converting me to Islam. I say that specifically because in 2014 when I walked into Christ the King Catholic Church, I was literally chased out of the church as a governor because I was accused of supporting a man whose agenda was to Islamise Nigeria.

“And in Rivers state they began to call me `Alhaji Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi’. I thank you because they have dropped the `Alhaji’ and back to Mr Chibuike Amaechi,’’ he said.

According to the former Rivers governor, some persons initially thought that the president would be an autocratic leader only for him to turn out to be an “extreme democrat’’.

“I was told in the course of the campaign that you were autocratic and therefore you would not be democratic.

“Most of us are not happy that you have moved from your autocratic nature to an extreme democrat that everything puts to test of the people, to the extent that the people now feel that the only way things can go on in this country is by the rule of law.’

While noting that the rule of law is the beginning and the end of the ruling government, Amaechi pointed that the financial impunity seen before the administration of President where people were making money without having any productive capacity for that has become thing of the past.

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