A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has dismissed the reported decision by the South-East governors to help the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.
Ude, who was the muse Deputy Chairman of APC in Enugu State, suggested the Chairman of the South-East Governors Discussion board (SEGF) and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, to shortly perish the considered delivering your entire South-East Nigeria wholesale to President Tinubu in 2027.
He claimed that earlier than 12 midday on the day of the presidential election, the ruling APC will lose Uzodinma’s polling unit at Ekwenja Okwu-Ozu (PU032) Omuma, Oru East LGA.
The ADC chieftain was reacting to a press release by Uzodinma that the South-East governors and leaders have agreed to help President Tinubu forward of the 2027 basic election.
Uzodimma who said this throughout a New 12 months courtesy go to to the personal residence of the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, at Nvosi Isialangwa South LGA of Abia State, defined that their choice to help Tinubu was knowledgeable by the necessity to foster collaboration among the many states within the South-East, in an effort to drive improvement throughout the area.
However in a press assertion on Saturday, Ude, Nationwide Coordinator of ADC Like Minds, described the mentioned decision of the Igbo governors to help Tinubu in 2027 as inconsequential and pushed by self-interest, fairly than the event of the South-East.
In keeping with him, the South-East governors had been supporting President Tinubu as a result of they’re amassing state and native authorities assets working into billions of Naira from the federal authorities and sharing the cash the way in which they like.
Ude mentioned: “Governor Hope Uzodinma ought to inform the world the precise cause behind their help for Tinubu. He can’t inform us that their choice was knowledgeable by the necessity to foster collaboration among the many states of the South-East. We’re not fools.
“If he needs collaboration amongst South-East states, what number of occasions has he summoned the assembly of South-East Governors Discussion board since he grew to become the Chairman in June 2023?
“But, we see him on tv on a regular basis both bidding goodbye to Mr. President at any time when he travels or welcoming him again house at any time when he returns. We have no idea whether it is a part of his schedule because the Chairman of Progressive Governors.”
Talking additional, Ude famous that underneath Governor Uzodinma because the Chairman of South-East Governors Discussion board, Igbo governors labored in opposition to fellow Igbo governors throughout governorship election, which by no means occurred previously.
He regretted that the South-East Governors Discussion board doesn’t have a practical secretariat since November final yr when the Director-Normal, Senator Uche Ekwunife contested because the Deputy Governorship candidate of APC in opposition to a sitting South-East Governor in one other get together, which claimed to be working along with the ruling get together underneath the progressive household.
He lamented that at a interval governors in different areas had been collaborating for the event of their areas, Igbo governors are coming collectively, to not deal with insecurity and different improvement challenges confronting their folks, however to help the second time period of a President, underneath who Igbo marginalisation reached its peak.
He maintained that since President Tinubu assumed workplace on Might 29, 2023, Igbos have been grossly marginalised, each within the allocation of federal infrastructure initiatives and appointments.
Stressing that the lots within the South-East aren’t naïve, Ude mentioned the folks can’t be hoodwinked by fireplace brigade emergency courtesy visits by some APC governors who’ve turn out to be apprehensive over the inflow of prime Igbo politicians into the ADC from the Labour Celebration, APC and different events.
“In 2027, we’ll converse with our votes, and so loudly like we did in earlier elections. Governor Uzodinma and the opposite South-East governors supporting Tinubu will likely be defeated of their polling models, as a result of none of them has affect on the grassroots,” he said.
Ude, nonetheless, urged the folks of the South-east to embrace the ADC coalition, being the pan-Nigeria get together, poised to rescue Nigeria from the maladministration of the ruling APC, which has introduced untold hardship and starvation upon bizarre Nigerians, particularly underneath the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
He assured that an ADC authorities won’t solely tame insecurity, finish extreme taxation and cease reckless borrowing, however reflate the financial system of Nigeria and embark on people-centred initiatives and programmes to higher the lives of the populace.
