President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said he would ensure that South-East got equal number of states with other geopolitical zones in the country, if re-elected.
Mr. Jonathan made the pledge at the secretariat of Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Owerri, where he was received by royal fathers in the state.
According to him, before other zones will talk of getting more states, the people of South-East must first get one additional state to bring them at par with other geopolitical zones.
Each of the six geo-political zones in the country has six states except South-East with five states and North-East with seven states.
Mr. Jonathan, who described the people of South-East as his ‘’taproot at the national level’’, said he was delighted at the level of support he enjoyed from the zone.
He said his visit to the royal fathers was to solicit their prayers and support ahead of Saturday’s presidential elections, and urged the people to vote for him and other PDP candidates.
Earlier, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, the Chairman of the traditional rulers’ council, told Mr. Jonathan that South-East people were highly expectant of additional states, in addition to looking forward to enjoying other benefits of democracy.
He urged the president to go ahead with his good work, adding that his transformational leadership was highly felt by Nigerians.
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The funny statement by Eze Ilomuanya that the president is doing good work. Maybe good work in sharing dollars as has been severally alleged. Anyway, I hope the Igbos and Nigerians will do the needful by voting for change. The current state of our nation is really bad. Let's vote to make Nigeria better.
ReplyDeleteOya Buhari over to you.
ReplyDeleteI TAUGHT THAT THEY SAID IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO CREATE STATE UNDER DEMOCRACY THAN MILITARY.WHY IS APAH STATE NOT CREATED AS PROMISED BY DAVID MARK IN 2011?
ReplyDeletePlease note, the president does not create states! Another deception of Jonathan. Jonathan needs to go, so that the country can survive. No electricity, no security, no jobs, corruption everywhere, etc and you want to re-elect this person president after six years? I feel sorry for you guys in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteAnother lie. Igbo should be careful with this lie, lie president.
ReplyDeleteGej has done a lot n E needs to do more, Igbos need a state to equate with other geopolitical zone, people should b aware. Rome was not build in a day! Buhari truncate early democracy so wat make him feel e should b voted into democracy era wis e stoped yes back?
ReplyDeleteNobody is voting Jona perhaps his cronies who are part of our problem, at times it beat my imagination that any right thinking Nigerian will vote Jonathan.
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