Former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has confirmed his resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC), revealing that he formally left the ruling party on Tuesday night.
In an interview on Wednesday, Amaechi said he had long distanced himself from APC affairs and was surprised the party had not expelled him earlier, given his repeated warnings against being invited to meetings.
“I left APC last night. I never attended one meeting. The last time they invited me, I warned them. I said, ‘If you invite me to any meeting anymore…’ In fact, I was surprised that I wasn’t even expelled because I warned them in writing—don’t even invite me to any meeting,” he said. “You can’t be in a club where the majority are stealing and you don’t say anything.”
When asked why he refused to support President Bola Tinubu’s government despite being part of the APC administration for two years, Amaechi said he had never believed Tinubu was fit to lead the country.
“I have never believed that Tinubu is a material to govern the country, never,” he stated. “Now people are asking for Buhari to come back. What happens in Nigeria is that every new government becomes worse than the last, and now Nigerians are looking back and saying things were better under Buhari.”
Citing economic decline as a major concern, Amaechi pointed to the naira’s fall in value. “The dollar was ₦460 or ₦500 during Buhari’s time. Now it’s ₦1,580. That’s more than a hundred percent increase,” he said.
Amaechi’s resignation follows a wave of high-profile defections from the APC as the 2027 election season begins to take shape.
