Rotimi Amaechi has stated that Nigerians were better off under Buhari, claiming that standard of living worsened under Tinubu administration.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that Nigerians enjoyed better living conditions under the administration of late former President Muhammadu Buhari than under the current government.
Amaechi made the assertion on Tuesday at the ongoing electoral reform protest at the National Assembly in Abuja, where he joined demonstrators calling for reforms to strengthen Nigeria’s democratic process.
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According to him, the standard of living has significantly worsened under the present administration, compared to what obtained during Buhari’s tenure.
“Is life easier now than when I was in the APC? Life is worse now than during the time of former President Buhari, even though we were planning to remove subsidy,” Amaechi said.
The protest, tagged “Occupy the National Assembly,” drew a large number of Nigerian youths who converged on the federal legislature to express concerns over what they described as growing threats to credible elections and democratic accountability.
Amaechi’s presence at the protest was linked to demands for the real-time electronic transmission of election results, an issue that has generated public outrage following the Senate’s rejection of the proposal during deliberations on electoral reforms.
The former minister stressed that transparent electoral processes are critical to restoring public confidence in governance and addressing the country’s growing socio-economic challenges.
