Train attack:: Resign within 48 hours or…… Youth group threatens Amaechi ….Says the minister must apologise to Nigerians for declaring for presidency

The National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has called on the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to apologise to Nigerians for declaring for Presidency while Nigerians still mourn over the recent train attack on the Abuja-Kaduna rail track.

The youth group also called on the Minister to tender his resignation or that Buhari should sack him within the next 48 hours as a mark of respect for the dead.

The President of NYCN, Solomon Adodo, made this known in a communiqué issued after its emergency meeting held on Monday in Abuja.

He said, “While the NYCN has nothing against Rt. Hon. Amaechi’s aspiration, his actions is unconscionable, condemnable, reprehensible, irresponsible, distasteful and disgraceful in the face of our national reality and mood. It is tantamount to dancing on the graves of the victims of the train attack, and celebrating the pains of the abducted and the wounded.

“The NEC of the NYCN is equally saddened that Hon. Amaechi who is supposed to take responsibility and lead the way in ameliorating the plight of the victims has rather thrown caution to the winds and shown no strand of care.

“We are frustrated that while we are spending our resources, and risking the lives of the youth leaders in trying to seek solutions to our national challenges politicians in the class of Hon. Amaechi who have failed Nigeria in the first place are working to force the country into a fatal amnesia by trivializing a matter as serious as the Abuja-Kaduna rail track bombing.

“Rt. Hon. Amaechi should apologize to Nigerians for his indiscretion of elevating his personal ambition over a national tragedy and a national sad mood.”

The NYCN alleged that Amaechi failed to visit families of the bereaved, saying that he only went to “the scene of the attack to announce himself as the “Nice Guy” who was a Nostradamus that was not listened to.”

Alodo further chided the discrepancies in the actual number of passengers, and victims of the sad event. He said, “Even the issue of the actual number of passengers, and consequently the actual number of victims which should be of a grave concern to Amaechi is still shrouded in suffocating controversies.

“That the discrepancy in records of the passengers on board the ill-fated train demonstrates that there is huge corruption ongoing in the Ministry of Transport under Minister Amaechi’s watch. Millions of Naira that should accrue to the government on a daily basis is being diverted to private coffers.

“That Minister Amaechi for all his Mr. Nice Guy posturing has been supervising a railway contract without security components which should be compulsory, not just because of these kinds of terror attacks, but also things like perimeter fencing to ward off stray animals.

“We hereby pass a vote of confidence on the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces’ determination to rein in insecurity and in a similar vein frown at the attempts by the Minister of Transport to discredit the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.”

He added that the NYCN shall therefore “increase the tempo of cooperation and support for the various security Agencies particularly the military in a bid to nip insecurity in the bid.

“In all, the NYCN is very disappointed that a leader of Minister Amaechi’s standing and experience could be this insensitive to Nigerians. NYCN has always resisted the temptation to view him as a careless, arrogant and unfeeling leader, as many of his critics argue.

” Sadly however, the event of Saturday April 9, 2022 in Port Harcourt point unequivocally in that direction as far as his true character is concerned. Since the only important thing in this country to him is his aspiration for Presidency, he should therefore vacate the Ministry of Transport before worse disasters hit us.

“May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria and save us from terrible leaders.”