BEVERLY HILLS, February 15, (THEWILL) – The former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, on Wednesday lamented that the people of the South-East do not occupy any protocol position in the All Progressives Congress, APC-controlled federal government, asserting that the people of zone are not wanted in the ruling party.
Ezeife, who spoke to journalists in Akure on the sideline of the public presentation of an autobiography written in honour of the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, disclosed that South-East politicians defecting to the APC want to be governor by stealing the position but that they will be resisted.
The presentation of the book entitled: ‘Mimiko’s Odysseys: A Biography of Revelations,’ and written by Prof. Olu Obafemi was attended by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, Abduazeez Yari of Zamfara State, the Governor of Adamawa State, Bindu Ibrahim Jubril, even as the governors of Lagos and Delta States were represented.
The ex-governor, who claimed that the people of the South-East zone are very consistent and would not move into APC, said; “There is nothing for us to show in this government. Are we the Secretary to the Government of the Federation or do we have any protocol position?”
According to him, “Okorocha is in APC but we know that we are not wanted. Some people who want to be governor are smuggling themselves in to APC but we will not allow them.
“South-Eastern people are not going to APC. What is happening is that some people who want to be governor by stealing the position about 12 of them are going to APC and they will discover that they will never win any election after going there,” he said.
The former governor said some people, who saw what happened in Edo and Ondo states, believed that they could win election only if they belong to APC.
“We are consistent with All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Some people saw what happened in Edo and Ondo and they believed that the only way to be governor is to go through APC but we are assuring them that our people will not vote for them,” he said.
Ezeife, who commended the call by the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, that the South-East should be allowed to produce the next President, said: “We are going for presidency. I like what Obasanjo said. For that 2019, we are going for presidency”.
He went on to state that every Nigerian, who knows what is good for the country, must support restructuring, saying that is the only way the country can survive.
“Every Nigerians who thinks with his head must support restructuring,” the former governor asserted.
