Nigeria’s transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi has expressed shocking pessimistic views about Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose re-election bid he leads.

In an audio recording shared with PREMIUM TIMES by Phrank Shaibu, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign, Amaechi portrays Buhari as a dismal failure who has been unable to meet the expectations of various segments of the society, ending with a dismissal of Nigeria as a fated-to-disintegrate hopeless nation.

The transcript of the recording reads: “These are not things you publish ooo. If you publish them, you will never sit with me any day.

“Three years of Buhari oo, everybody is crying, crying…pressmen are crying, farmers are crying, workers are crying, politicians are crying, students are crying, three years oo!

“The rate of poverty is very high. The people are hungry. Nigeria will divide!”

Although PREMIUM TIMES has not independently verified the recording. The claims, particularly regarding expectations, expressed in the recording may be correct.