Uche Nwosu, a senior member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, said it was unjust for certain southern politicians to blame the north of attempting to maintain power while refusing to help the southeast in producing the next president.
Such politicians, according to Nwosu, are not honest to themselves, urging that the people of the southeast area should be the ones to elect Nigeria’s next president.
Those pushing for a power transfer to the south without backing the southeast in 2023, according to the former Imo State gubernatorial candidate, are being unjust.
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According to Nwosu, it was unfair to deprive the southeast, which is the only region in the country that has never produced a president, the chance to do so.
The former governorship candidate spoke with select journalists in Abuja, Wednesday, where he insisted that the only way equity and justice can be truly served is for other zones in the South to support the Southeast.
He said that anyone coming to equity must come with clean hands, adding that it was wrong “to be agitating for power shift to the south on the guise of equity and justice and when power moves to the south you no longer preach equity and justice, that is simply unfair.”
He argued that “When our brothers from the South West or South-South come out to say they want to be President for equity and justice sake, they are simply not fair, there is no equity or justice in that.
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“The true equity and justice is to make sure that every zone in this country will have the opportunity to rule this country, that is the peace, that is the equity, that is the justice for me.
“If you are accusing the North, that the North doesn’t want to release power to the South and you that have tasted power in the South, want to take power again, you’re not sincere.”
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