S’East Should Align With North For 2023 Presidency –Uzodinma
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Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff; and Marine Transport, Senator Hope Uzodinma
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Leke Baiyewu, Abuja
The Chairman of the Southern Senators
Forum in the Senate, Hope Uzodinma, has urged Igbo leaders to examine
the current political alignment in Nigeria to position the South-East
for the nation’s presidency in 2023.
Uzodinma, who represents Imo in the
Senate, said the advice became necessary as the current political
indicators in the country pointed to the possibility of the South-East
losing out from the nation’s political equation in 2019, even more than
it did in 2015.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Customs, Excise and Tariffs spoke at his Omuma country home while
addressing prominent political leaders from Imo State at a meeting on
the chances of the Igbo in the 2019 general elections.
He stated that every right thinking Igbo
person should be worried that the recently released list of
appointments to the boards of Federal Government’s agencies and
parastatals clearly indicated that the South-East was losing out in the
political calculations at the federal level.
Uzodinma added, “Let me be honest with
you my brothers and sisters, I think we are putting ourselves in a
disadvantaged political position. We need to re-strategise and quickly
strike strategic alliance with our northern political elite ahead of the
2019 elections so that what happened to us in 2015 will not be our lot
in 2019.”
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