ABUJA — The South-East has to align with other regions of the country to produce the next 2023 president according to a presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina.
Adesina acknowledging the clamour for the South-East to produce the next president in 2023, said the region would have to play “proper politics” to achieve this.
He indicated this stand in a recent interview with Vanguard.
According to him, 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.
“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 for 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.”
Adesina also stated that 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.
“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,” he added.
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