The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has called on the Igbo to put their sentiments aside and cast their votes for President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming 2019 general elections.

While delivering a lecture titled T‘he Igbo in the Politics of Nigeria’ at the 12th Convocation ceremony of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka on Wednesday, the Minister urged the Igbo people to seek forgiveness for turning their backs against Buhari during the 2015 presidential polls.

While calling on them to abandon the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) which he described as regional parties, the former Rivers State governor advised them to join a national party like the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to have a realistic shot at producing a candidate that could emerge president of the country in 2023.

His words: “You did not vote for Buhari, true or false? You voted PDP and what did they do for you? PDP abandoned the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway since 1999, but Buhari is working on it, true or false?

“Buhari is working on the second Niger Bridge, he is working on the Otuocha-Ibaji-Abuja Road, he is working on the Abakaliki-Onueke Road, he is working on the Oji-Achi-Naku Road in Enugu State,he is working on the Ozalla-Akpugo-Amagunze Road. He is working on the Aba-Ikot Ekpene Road.

“Under Buhari, all major cities of the southeast are captured in the existing railway project. Name one government that has done up to this within two years. Our problem is that we are just being emotional.