Jonathan’s supporters, who are members of the Citizens
Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria, CNPDN, have flagged off campaigns
in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, saying that the next president of
Nigeria must emerge from the Southern part of the country.
Earlier in November, the supporters endorsed Bola Tinubu and
commenced grassroots mobilisation in the South East and South South
geopolitical zones of the country for the presidential candidate of the ruling
All Progressives Congress, APC.
The CNPDN’s mobilisation for Tinubu was against the backdrop
of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s expressed support for a southern
president to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The group at that time
had tried to prevail on Jonathan to join the presidential race.
The national secretary of the coalition, Mr Francis Okereke
Wainwei, who hails from Bayelsa State, while briefing newsmen, said they
unanimously resolved to support and vote for Tinubu in the forthcoming presidential
election in 2023.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Wainwei noted that the
position of the group was in line with that of the Northern Governors’ Forum of
the APC and the Southern Governors’ Forum, who had declared for a southern
president in 2023, noting that the emergence of a Southern President would
unite the nation and ensure fairness and equity.
“In the same vein, our position that the next president of
this country should come from the south is driven by same vision and
principles,” he added, saying there would be a better sense of belonging for
the southern people.
The group slammed some governors from the Southern part of
Nigeria for allegedly betraying the interest of the zone, revealing that it was
only Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike that insists on the southern presidency
in 2023.
“We are, therefore, calling on the South South governors who
have betrayed their people by supporting another northern candidate to take
over from Buhari after eight years of a president from the North, to resign
immediately.
“This is because the people of the South South zone can no
longer trust them with their common heritage as they have placed their personal
interests above the collective interest of their people. Our call on them to
resign is also premised on the fact that they recently received huge sums of
money via the 13% derivation fund and squandered same in pursuit of their
personal interests at the expense of their people,” Wanwein articulated.
While calling on the state houses of assembly to impeach
governors that are against the interest of the zone if they failed to resign
from office, the group vowed to mobilise people from the affected states to
force the said governors to either resign or get impeached.
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