The Minister of Transportation and presidential hopeful, Rotimi Amaechi, has vowed to drop his presidential ambition for whoever president Muhammadu Buhari supports to replace him in 2023.
The minister made this known during a meeting with the All Progressives Congress stakeholders that was held at the weekend at the party Secretariat in Rivers State.
He noted that his ambition is not worth his loyalty to the president and the party, adding that he is not desperate to grab the apex office in the country.
He lectured politicians on the benefits of loyalty and what can be termed loyalty.
“Loyalty is not when you are not chosen, you become disloyal, loyalty means you follow the man that leads you, that you have surrendered to his leadership.
“If you don’t follow, it means you are not loyal, you are only benefitting from the man politically and economically. The day he’s not able to give you that economic reality, is the day you become disloyal.
“I am a very loyal person, and those who are disloyal, I wish them well, those who want to do whatever they want to do, I wish them well,” he said.
According to him, the opportunity will be given to everybody and all will run in this presidential election.
“We will run and I am loyal to the President and I am loyal to the party.
“If the party says it is me, thank God. If the party says it is not me, whoever the party chooses, I will support it.
“If the party and President choose anybody, I will support the person, if the party chooses me, I will be glad and say thank God,” Amaechi explained.