Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, says the south-east was
denied the opportunity to produce the next president owing to a lack of equity.
Uzodimma spoke on Wednesday when he featured on Sunrise
Daily, a Channels TV programme.
There has been a clamour for political parties to zone their
presidential tickets to the south-east.
In May, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) conducted its
special convention, but Atiku Abubakar, who is from the north, was elected as
the party’s presidential candidate.
The presidential primary election of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) is currently underway in Abuja, but two hopefuls, Bola Tinubu
and Yemi Osinbajo who are from the south-west are leading the race.
Speaking on Wednesday, Uzodimma who is the chairman of the
APC special convention, said the south-east should produce the next president,
but they will not because of injustice.
“From the view of political calculation, the sentiment of
the people in the south-east is that they deserve to produce the president
because the reason why this power is moving from the north to the south is that
the current president is from the north having served for daughter years,” he
said.
“The reason why the south-east is asking for it is that when
the power came to the south it went to the south-west and was there for eight
years and the next time it came to the south it went to the south-south and it
was there for seven years plus.
“The natural thing to do and the justice of the case is that
now that power is coming again to the south and since it is only three
geo-political zones that made up the south, it should come to the south-east,
having been in the south-west and south-south.
“In a situation where equity should be the issue we
(south-east) don’t need to struggle for it. But here again, you see how it has
come. We will continue to hope that one day God will touch the heart of our
brothers and sisters to do that which belongs to us.”
Uzodimma said the presidential hopefuls from the south-east
who withdrew from the race to support northern candidates did so because they
hoped to produce the next president when power returns to the south.
“This is what has to
be discussed at the party level because it is a serious matter. Because we are
dealing with human beings here. You cannot just wake up and take any decision,
there are consequences to every action. Those are the things that will be
discussed and something must be done,” he said.
“Most of our people (presidential hopefuls) here who came
from the south-east, when they saw that it will be difficult clinching to the
ticket they opted for a northern candidate.
“The reason is very simple because when a northern candidate
stays for eight years and then the power will come back to the south; this time
around maybe we (south-east) will have the opportunity.”
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