Under Buhari, Nigerians Are Hungry, Poverty Is Growing - Amaechi Secrete Tape Leaked

Rotimi Amaechi (Minister of Transport)

Nigeria's transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has been heard in an audio recording to be expressing shocking pessimistic views about Nigeria and administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose re-election bid he leads.

The recording was shared with PREMIUM TIMES by Phrank Shaibu, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign.

Mr. Abubakar, billionaire former vice president, of the People's Democratic Party, is the main challenge of Mr. Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in next month's presidential election.

The recording contains a portrayal of Mr. Buhari as a dismal failure who has been unable to meet the expectations of various segments of the society, ending with a dismissal of Nigeria as a never-going-to-change hopeless nation.

The transcript of the recording reads: "These are not things you publish ooh. I you publish them, you will never sit with me any day.

"Three years of Buhari ooh, everybody is crying, crying...pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years ooh!

"The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will never change!"

PREMIUM TIMES stated that it has not independently verified the recording. And further said, 'The claims, particularly regarding expectations, expressed in the recording may be correct.

Here is the recorded video below: