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2023: South East Do Not Have To Speak With One Voice To Produce President — Dave Umahi

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Governor Umahi of Ebonyi State has averred that indeed power can be given to any region, Njenje Media News reports.

The Governor in an interview with The Sun Newspapers gave instances where power was given to a creed with examples of Obasanjo and Yaradua, and believes it’s not wrong to infer that power needs to be given to the Southeast.

The governor who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC is of the opinion that the South East do not have to be speak with one voice to be considered for the Presidency.

In his words:

“First of all, let me correct the impression that it is only in Nigeria that power is given. And I will give you the instances. In Obasanjo’s case, power was given, in Yar’adua’s case power was given; in Jonathan’s case, power was given. So, it is only in Nigeria that power is given. These things are there. It is not when it is the turn of the Southeast that we will now be saying that we are not speaking with one voice. We have little money and people are out there waiting to take the money and nobody is going to give them, so we are waiting for the power to be given. This is very important. It happened to other people, it should happen to us. This is Nigeria that we all belong to. When I left PDP, I left the party based on personal conviction and it is still hunting them. That is why they zoned the chairmanship to the North. Let me see how they will shortchange South East again by saying that they will not zone presidency to the South East in the PDP. As far as I am concerned, I am a sacrifice in terms of that and it will be fruitful. It will mature. That is very definite. If you say that nobody has come to say that this person has distinguished himself, Mr President has asked you people, you said I have come to become president, what is wrong with my becoming president. The president said it himself. The leader of the party has seen nothing wrong if I become president or if I came into APC to become president. When it comes to the South East, you’ll see so many of my colleagues speak highly of Ebonyi State. I have so much respect for them, they have same too for me. But it is very wrong for any Governor in APC to start saying that this thing must come here. We have a leader, the President and that has been the discipline in party politics. Like here, I stopped people from saying I declare, I do this or that, let us do governance for the people first. Let’s do projects for the people, at the right time you can now declare as you want.”

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On the character of the person who should be the next Nigerian President, he said:

“I think for anybody who wants to be President of Nigeria in 2023, it should be the calling of God. It shouldn’t just be a mere desire and I feel so sad when you have people that want to be President and you check their antecedents, you see that they have nothing to show. They won’t be able to say this is what they achieved in their previous assignments. I find it so funny in this country. I thought that with the challenges we have in this country; economic challenges, security challenges, that people should be begged, please can’t you come and do this job. It should be something that God will be calling a man to come and do it and the man will say God if your spirit doesn’t go with me, please don’t send me. The next President needs God’s anointing. He needs God’s calling, otherwise this country will collapse on his face. And I don’t think we need pure politicians. This country needs to be fixed and then politicians could be called to continue. This country needs a high level of patriotism at this time. It is very important. It is not just about leadership. You need the finger of God. We are sitting on a keg of gunpowder. We need patriotism from the leaders, we need commitment from the people. It is not about President Buhari. He doesn’t know what you are doing here and what you are doing here matters a lot to the lives of the people. Even Governors criticise the President. What have you done with the little money you have collected; yes federal government collects 52 per cent, state governments collect 48 per cent. Can we be held accountable to that 48 per cent? Let it be that the federal government has squandered their own but before criticising the federal government what have you done with your own per cent. There are some of our state houses where you will see potholes right from the major road down to the precinct and you are doing open letter to the president. You are criticising the President. The security of our states is in our hands. You say you don’t have this and that, what have you done with the people to curtail this insecurity. This very high level of insecurity is a result of neglect in the past. It didn’t start with Buhari, Jonathan or Obasanjo. We should all be blamed for this. This is the truth. So, Presidency is not something someone will jump into. But if God puts the burden, I’m just like an instrument in the hand of God. If He puts the burden on anybody including me and the spirit follows me like He had followed me here despite my shortcomings, then it is doable. But to struggle for it, no. The next president of Nigeria should be a calling. It should be about passion. I will end this by insisting that the South East should not be neglected because even the issue of insecurity in the South East is just us playing into the hands of the so-called agitators.”

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