Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, says the south-east
must play the “proper” kind of politics to have a shot at the presidency.
Speaking on the clamour for the south-east to produce the
next president in 2023, Adesina said it is only possible if the zone aligns
with others.
The presidential spokesperson said the south-east has always
maintained the same voting pattern during presidential elections — and it is
not working.
“Every part of the country deserves to produce the president and right from my days in the newspapers, I had always been writing, advising the south east on how to get it. But till now, I wouldn’t say they have played the proper kind of politics,” he said in an interview with Vanguard.
“To become president
in Nigeria, you need to align with the rest of the country and if you don’t
align, you can never produce a president.
“President Buhari had to align with the south-west before he
became president. If the south-east continues to vote the same way they have
been voting in one direction and that direction is not working, yet they
continue, then, they need to re-address their politics.
“Before 2015 and then, 2019, some Igbo leaders of thoughts,
Orji Kalu, Ngige, Ralph Obioha, all of them, even at a point, Prof ABC Nwosu
said it. That was in 2011. He said the shortest route to Igbo presidency is to
vote the Buhari/Bakare ticket in 2011 and then, Buhari/Osinbajo ticket in 2015
and 2019.
“But how did the
south-east vote, they still went in the same direction.”
Commenting on insecurity in the country, Adesina said
Nigeria would have been consumed by insurgency if President Muhammadu Buhari
did not assume office in 2015.
“You know that in 2015, the main issue in the country was
insurgency. That insurgency was in the north-east, it was in north-west, it was
in north-central because Abuja was being serially bombed,” he said.
“It was already in Kogi. From Kogi, where did you think it
was going? It was south-west. And if you went to the south-west, the only place
left would be the south-south.
“The whole country
would have been consumed and there would have been no country again, if not
that President Buhari came in in 2015.”
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