Former Transportation Minister and the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that he would make sure that terrorists and their hideouts are bombarded daily until they no longer exist if he becomes president of Nigeria.
The former governor of rivers state recounted how he defeated criminal elements in the state under six months when he was the governor of the state.
He made this remark in Katsina on Monday, while soliciting the support of delegates ahead of the forthcoming primary elections of the APC.
Amechi said: “If you know Rivers State before I became the Governor, you will know there were serious cases of kidnappings and killings in the State that made oil companies move away, but in 6 months, I restored security.
“General Buratai (former Chief of Army Staff) was then a Brigade Commander, for six months I did not sleep. So I said, they too will not sleep. Until they left Rivers people to sleep, then me too, I started sleeping.
“That’s why anywhere I go for consultations with delegates, I go with Gen. Buratai and former Inspector General of Police, Abba Suleiman, who was the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State at the time and the former Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar who was Air Force commander in Rivers then. We were bombing them everyday until they ran away.”
While commenting on the Nigeria economy, he said “there is need to move back to agriculture and move from agriculture to industrialization and manufacturing.”
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