By Seun Opejobi Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Special Convention, has said...
By Seun Opejobi
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Special Convention, has said the Southeast should
produce the next president of Nigeria.
Uzodinma said the Southeast was denied the opportunity to
produce Nigeria’s next president due to the lack of equity.
Speaking with Channels Television, the governor said the
Southeast can’t produce Nigeria’s next president due to injustice.
According to Uzodinma: “From the view of political
calculation, the sentiment of the people in the south-east is that they deserve
to produce the president because the reason why this power is moving from the
north to the south is that the current president is from the north having
served for seven years.
“The reason why the south-east is asking for it is that when
the power came to the south it went to the south-west and was there for eight
years and the next time it came to the south it went to the south-south and it
was there for seven years plus.
“The natural thing to do and the justice of the case is that
now that power is coming again to the south and since it is only three
geo-political zones that made up the south, it should come to the south-east,
having been in the south-west and south-south.
“In a situation where equity should be the issue we
(south-east) don’t need to struggle for it. But here again, you see how it has
come. We will continue to hope that one day God will touch the heart of our
brothers and sisters to do that which belongs to us.”
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