Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and his first son who is a medical doctor joined the ongoing protest against the Senate’s rejection of real-time transmission of election results at the national assembly complex.
Speaking at the protest ground, Amaechi explained that he asked his son to join the protest for two reasons.
The two reasons he said are to attend to protesters in need of medical attention and change the narrative that politicians want protest but their children are overseas.
“There are those who say we, the politicians, want protest but our children are overseas. But here is my first son. He is a medical doctor; I brought him here and his job is that if there is injury, he should treat people”, he added.
He maintained that leaders ought to be at the forefront of major protests and should be willing to involve their families.
On the subject matter, the politician said his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) was opposed to electronic transmission of election results because it fears losing elections.
“I believe that the opposition parties should come out — PDP, ADC, everybody should be out — to protest against the attempt of one party”, he stated.
He queried, “If we come out, and they say the opposition has hijacked the protest, what is APC doing? Are they not hijacking? What are they afraid of?”
He added that opposition parties and civil society organisations would continue the protests, even if Senate President Godswill Akpabio and President Bola Tinubu look the other way.
Amaechi compared the living condition with what obtained under the government he served as minister for eight years, saying, “It is worse now than it was then. In Buhari’s time, at least, even though we were planning to remove subsidy, we had better plans for citizens.”
Amaechi is the second chieftain of the coalition-led African Democratic Congress (ADC) to join the protest.
On Monday, Peter Obi, one of the ADC presidential aspirants, joined the protest, calling on the National Assembly to allow real-time transmission of results.
