Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, stated that the South-East was denied the opportunity to produce the next president due to lack of equity.
Uzodimma made this assertion when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme on Wednesday, June 8.
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Ever since the preparation for 2023 presidential election, 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.
Meanwhile, the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja produced Bola Tinubu, an aspirant from the southwest.
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Uzodimma, however, posited that the south-east should produce the next president but they will not because of injustice.
He said:
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 eight years
The reason 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.
Uzodimma further explained:
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.
