The Minister of Works, David Umahi, says it’s not but the flip of the Southeast to provide the following president, urging the area to train endurance in its quest for Nigeria’s presidency.
Umahi made this assertion in an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja.
The Minister harassed the necessity for political equity and continuity in 2027.
“No, it’s not our time; it’s not the time of the South-East but. We the 17 Southern governors went to Asaba earlier than 2023 and we went to say, pay attention, it doesn’t matter the political get together, however the subsequent president ought to come from the South.
“All of us tried however the crown came across President Bola Tinubu. He’s from the South and so, it’s fallacious for the south-east to come back and say, oh, it’s their flip.
“No, he (Tinubu) has to complete the eight years. The eight years he took is for all of us, each the South and the North. So he has to complete, and when he has completed in 2031, the south-east now can vie, within the sense that they’ve by no means tasted the place earlier than,” he stated.
The previous Ebonyi State governor additional defined that there are folks ‘very eminently certified and higher’ than those that are clamouring for it now.
Whereas admitting that the Southeast had suffered some measure of marginalisation prior to now, Umahi stated that was the rationale it was very tough for some governors like him to ship the zone for All Progressives Congress, APC, through the 2023 normal elections.
