David Umahi, the Minister of Works, has advised that the Southeast to be patient in its pursuit of Nigeria’s presidency, stating that it is not yet the region’s turn to produce the next president.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja, Umahi said this. The Minister stressed the need for political fairness and continuity in 2027.
“No, it is not our time; it is not the time of the SouthEast yet. We the 17 Southern governors went to Asaba before 2023 and we went to say, listen, it doesn’t matter the political party, but the next president should come from the South.
“All of us tried but the crown came upon President Bola Tinubu. He is from the South and so, it is wrong for the southeast to come and say, oh, it is their turn.
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“No, he (Tinubu) has to finish the eight years. The eight years he took is for all of us, both the South and the North. So he has to finish, and when he has finished in 2031, the south-east now can vie, in the sense that they have never tasted the position before,” he said.
The former governor of Ebonyi State went on to say that certain people are “very eminently qualified and better” than those who are currently demanding it.
Umahi acknowledged that the Southeast had experienced some marginalisation in the past, but he said that this was the reason why some governors, including himself, found it extremely challenging to win the zone for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general elections of 2023.
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