Amaechi Challenges Tinubu: I'll Campaign for You if Fuel Drops to ₦600

Rotimi Amaechi, the vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has issued a direct challenge to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his economic policies, pledging to abandon his own ticket and campaign for Tinubu if the price of petrol drops to ₦600 per liter. Amaechi made the offer during an interview on Channels Television's Politics Today, responding to President Tinubu's Independence Day declaration that Nigeria has entered an "age of prosperity." He questioned the credibility of the administration's claims, arguing that ordinary citizens continue to face severe economic hardship. "It is about believability; who do you believe? Go to the 2005 Presidential speech; it is the same: we have turned the page, and we are about to start enjoyment," Amaechi said. He then asked, "Have you asked one of your staff who goes by transport, how much it costs from Yanya to Abuja? Has anything come down? Has any price come down, has anything changed?" To test the administration's assertions, Amaechi said he would personally visit a petrol station to verify pump prices, and offered to withdraw from the ADC ticket alongside presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar if retail costs have genuinely fallen. "I will go tomorrow morning to the petrol station to buy fuel, I will go myself, if fuel has come down to 600, I will campaign for President Tinubu," he said. "If you doubt me, come with your camera to my house, and I will go to the filling station and buy fuel, and I, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi will withdraw as a vice-presidential candidate of Atiku and campaign for President Tinubu, if it has come down."