BREAKING: Amaechi Set to Abandon ADC Ticket, Support Tinubu’s Second-Term Bid
Vice Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rotimi Amaechi, has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reduce the price of petrol to ₦600 per litre, saying he would withdraw from the ADC ticket and campaign for Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election if the price drops to that level.
Amaechi made the statement while reacting to Tinubu’s Independence Day address and the President’s declaration that Nigeria had entered an “age of prosperity.”
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Amaechi questioned whether the economic reforms of the Tinubu administration had translated into lower prices and improved living conditions for Nigerians.
“It is about believability; who do you believe?” Amaechi said, while arguing that Nigerians should judge the government by the changes they experience in their daily lives.
He questioned whether the cost of transportation and other essential goods had reduced, asking, “Has any price come down, has anything changed?”
Using petrol prices as a measure of the government’s economic claims, Amaechi said he was prepared to personally visit a filling station to verify whether petrol had fallen to ₦600 per litre.
“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.
Amaechi further challenged those who doubted his statement to accompany him with a camera, insisting that he would withdraw from the ADC vice-presidential ticket and support Tinubu if petrol was selling at ₦600 per litre.
“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,” he added.
Amaechi is contesting the 2027 election on the ADC ticket alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party intensifies preparations for the presidential poll.
