Amaechi blasts Jonathan for not doing anything for Igbos

Rotimi Amaechi criticised Goodluck Jonathan for not doing anything for the Igbos

The minister claimed Jonathan made several promises without fulfiling them

He said the Buhari administration is already doing more for Igbos

Rotimi Amaechi who is the minister of transportation has accused former president, Goodluck Jonathan of failing Igbo people in spite of the support they gave to him.

Premium Times reports that the former governor of Rivers made this comment at a forum held to discuss the importance of social media in the polity on Tuesday, June 13.


Amaechi noted that the former president got a lot of support from Igbos but failed to fulfil all the promises he made to them.

He said: “The Igbos gave Jonathan support, what did he do for you?”

“President Jonathan went to Onitsha and danced and promised to construct Onitsha bridge. Right? After that nothing happened.”

“Now we are fixing the bridge without making promise. Or did we promise to construct Onitsha bridge? I didn’t hear him (Mr. Buhari) say he would construct Onitsha bridge during the campaign…except someone spoke on his behalf.


“Today we are constructing the second bridge…which is the River Niger bridge.”

Amaechi said Igbo leaders should be ashamed that Jonathan promised them without constructing the bridge.

“The relevance of a politician is not determined by how much he has in his pocket. It is determined by how much development he is able to bring…,”

He said: “The Port Harcourt-Owerri road was terrible. One day I made the mistake as governor to try to go to Owerri and I passed through Aba. I wept. Now we are constructing that road; it may not be at the speed that you want but we are constructing the road. The next road I mentioned is the Enugu-Onitsha.

“We are doing Port Harcourt-Enugu, the most important road to the Igbo. The next most important road to the Igbo is Enugu to Onitsha, and he (Mr. Buhari) is doing it again… So who is better?

“The last man you people were dancing with at Onitsha bridge that promised you people that ‘Azikiwe commissioned this bridge and the second Azikiwe commissioned it again’ and never put a stone and the man who doesn’t talk at all… who didn’t make promise and he is doing it, which one do you prefer?”

“Don’t be deceived by those who depended on government alone for survival.”