Amaechi offers to back Tinubu if petrol falls to ₦600

Rotimi Amaechi, the African Democratic Congress vice-presidential candidate, has said he would withdraw from the party’s 2027 ticket and campaign for President Bola Tinubu if petrol falls to ₦600 per litre. Amaechi made the challenge during an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today while responding to Tinubu’s Independence Day address and the President’s declaration that Nigeria had entered an “age of prosperity”. The former Rivers State governor and transportation minister questioned whether the government’s economic reforms had translated into lower prices and better living conditions.

He said Nigerians should judge the administration’s claims by examining the cost of transport and other essentials. “It is about believability; who do you believe?” Amaechi said, adding that people should ask whether prices had fallen or whether anything had changed for ordinary citizens. He used petrol prices as a specific test of the government’s economic performance.

Amaechi said he would personally visit a filling station to establish whether petrol was being sold at the stated price. “I will go tomorrow morning to the petrol station to buy fuel,” he said. “If fuel has come down to 600, I will campaign for Tinubu.” Amaechi also invited anyone who doubted the pledge to accompany him with a camera.

He said he would withdraw from the ticket he is contesting alongside former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and support Tinubu if the price reached ₦600 per litre. His comments come as political parties and candidates prepare for the 2027 presidential election.