Former National President of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of
the Imo State University (IMSU), Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, has said that it would
be difficult for power to return to the Southwest in 2023 going by power
equation in the country.
According to him, even if the
national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
brings all the money in the world, he would not be the next President as the
position will go to Northeast in 2023.
“Before, the Sokoto emblem was
‘Born to rule’; now if you look at the six geo-political zones in the country,
the Southwest has served for eight years, South-south six years, put them
together it isn14 years, they left Northwest alone another eight years with two
years of Yar’Adua, which is 10 years, only one zone out of the three, the
Northeast has not gone, North-central has not gone, the Southwest has gone, the
South-south has gone, it remains the Southeast.
“Look at the number of years they
have gone, South has covered 14 years; North has covered or will cover 10 years
when Buhari completes his tenure.
“I don’t think they would allow
the West, even if it is Tinubu, let him bring all the money in the world, the
President will go to Northeast in 2023,” he said in an interview with Sun
newspaper.
On the political situation in the
country, Awuzie described it as wobbly, saying that sometimes it seems
President Muhammadu Buhari is on holiday and detached from the problems
plaguing the country.
He said, “We have a wobbling
leadership, sometimes it appears to me that our president is on holidays, he
has to take grip of situations.
“We are in a country you cannot
go to bed with your two eyes closed, a country you cannot guarantee six hours
of light, a country priding itself that we can produce 8,000megawatts when
South Africa produces 30,000megawatts, you are talking of 8,000megawatts for a
country of 200 million population, I think we have a long way to go.
“What I am saying is that the
leadership should be more pragmatic, we must look at harnessing the best; our
problem in Nigeria is that we are not using the best to drive both the economy
and governance.”
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