Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State and former minister of transportation, has stated that he does not like money.
Despite having been in politics for approximately 38 years, Amaechi claimed to lead a simple life.
The former minister disclosed this during an interview, adding that if he did, when he was the governor of Rivers State, he would have taken out a loan to construct six million homes.
In his words, “I don’t like money. Are you not surprised that I have been in Nigerian politics from when I was 22 till now? I am 60. So, you are talking about 38 years of being in politics.
“What scandals have you heard of me? Have you heard oh, Amaechi stealing money? Amaechi is this? Simple! As you entered here, did you see posh cars? My wife doesn’t even have a car. I have to provide my back up car. That is what she drives.
“Well, there are things you could have done differently, but that does not mean I have regrets. There are things that ordinarily, take for instance; I could as well have borrowed money to build.
“There are six million Rivers people, for instance. We could have borrowed money to build six million houses. If you build high rise and all that, in fact, it was my contact in the Ministry of Transport that made me know that actually, you can build six million houses for six million Rivers people.
“The question the person asked me was, how do you think we accommodate our 1.4 billion persons? Are they living on the streets?
“Are they in the air? We accommodate them. So, ordinary six million, you can’t accommodate them? It was an idea that just struck me when I became a minister. But if I had known that as a governor, I would possibly have borrowed money to build those six million houses for them,” he added.
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