Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State says President Muhammadu Buhari’s body language supports candidate from the South for the 2023 presidency, but the region is divided.

The governor, who received the President in Ebonyi on Friday, disclosed this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today.

He said, “We cannot be honest by half. When zoning doesn’t exclude people from contesting, it’s been happening. There is no political face that is not zoning in this country. And the body language of the Mr President is well disposed toward the presidency shifting to the south.

“But when the south cannot handle it on the basis of equity, fairness and justice, then we should continue to suggest that we shouldn’t blackmail the north; we should deceive ourselves. This thing should be thrown open because if there is no zoning, then you have no right to continue to agitate that the north cannot contest.

“We cannot be used to drag presidency to the south and then we are shortchanged. So we should be part of such agitation if such fairness and equity cannot be ascribed to us. That is the position of most leaders in the South-East.

“I’m not asking that people from the South-West should not run; it is their constitutional right. But I want to say that we have worked together, the southern governors said presidency should rotate to the south, but on the basis of equity, fairness, and justice we had the South-East in mind, since the South-East never tested it.

“Now it has become clear that the platform upon which we collectively asked the north to concede the presidency to the south is no longer the same platform upon which the realities are based; then it’s fair and just that we should allow anybody in the country to run.”

http://saharareporters.com/2022/05/07/2023-buhari-supports-southern-presidency-south-east-south-west-are-divided-%E2%80%93-governor

[/b]But when the south cannot handle it on the basis of equity, fairness and justice, then we should continue to suggest that we shouldn’t blackmail the north; we should deceive ourselves. This thing should be thrown open because if there is no zoning, then you have no right to continue to agitate that the north cannot contest.


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Umahi the deluded will believe any lie thrown at him by the Fulanis

Malory:
Umahi the deluded will believe any lie thrown at him by the Fulanis

Fulanis will always give an excuse to retain power and they might retain that power if care is not taken...

Greedy southern brethren will help them as well

redPUSSY:


Fulanis will always give an excuse to retain power and they might retain that power if care is not taken...

Greedy southern brethren will help them as well

Only a foolish person will believe Buhari will handover to a Southerner.

Kriss216:

Only a foolish person will believe Buhari will handover to a Southerner.

If we come together we can but if we can not they should continue

If the East cannot get president then the north should keep it.

redPUSSY:


If we come together we can but if we can not they should continue

It's late to come together.


The SW must learn the hard way.

Umahi, incoming VP to a 2023 Fulani PRESIDENT?

We in the Niger Delta only did a single term. If it's actually the turn of the south as claimed, and in fairness, equity and justice, Niger Delta must be allowed to complete their term or the people in the South East should have a go. Anything other than this, the north also have the right to contest in the two biggest parties.

Umahi spoke my exact mind, if southern unity equates SW presidency then it won't work
SE or we throw it open for all

Foolish talk!

Is buhari now making decisions for Nigerians?
In a sane country, buhari would have been chilling in jail by now.

However, Nigerians have decided that it is Peter Obi they want. We have no choice but to vote massively for Peter Obi come 2023

Malory:
Umahi the deluded will believe any lie thrown at him by the Fulanis

South is deluded thinking Fulanis would throw presidency south

As a confirmed Omoluabi guy from Igbęsa Ogun state i support a president of an igbo extraction without giving a hoot about whose ox is being gored.

We told them since last year ...zone it to south east based on equity or throw it open

mrvitalis:
We told them since last year ...zone it to south east based on equity or throw it open

Tinubu urchins want to ride on Buhari's popularity to get power through the back door, and to use Sescession as a campaign tool against Eastern PDP candidate, unfortunately Fulanis are smarter and ahead of them..

Such arrangements afonja were hoping on will never see the light of the day


Sophisticated clowns

imagine how a governor is thinking and lamenting like a pathetic fool who is expecting presidency to be given to him and his cannibal zone because he decamped ?

Presidency should be zone to SE from PDP party and SW from APC party basic.

Since 1999 your people from Ndi Beafraud have passionately committed to only PDP and blindly voting for PDP for good 22 years and you can't demand equity, fairness and justice from them only APC deserve your equality and fairness ?

SadEast is full of mad people

I can’t invest with first bank then go to GTb to claim my returns! It will amount to a colossal lost if apc should follow what he said! Apc is not popular in the east/south south so why would they intentionally shoot themselves on the leg?

mrvitalis:
We told them since last year ...zone it to south east based on equity or throw it open

That is a spoiler statement! Claim your return where you invested!

LongBig:
I can’t invest with first bank then go to GTb to claim my returns! It will amount to a colossal lost if apc should follow what he said! Apc is not popular in the east/south south so why would they intentionally shoot themselves on the leg?

Invested how ?

You mean there is no Igbo person in APC ?

Do you even know how APC was formed and people involved ?.. nPDP led by Amechi, ACN by Tinubu, ANPN by Onu and APGA by Rochas and CPC led by Buhari and the rest of others

Let's even assume there is no Igbos in APC, remember that Igbo votes are Inconsequential according to your fellow brothers..

Why can't you use this opportunity to prove that point once more that even if PDP and APC zone their tickets to SE that despite a huge support SE will give PDP that your APC will still defeat them because SE votes are Inconsequential ?

LongBig:


That is a spoiler statement! Claim your return where you invested!

Igbos have invested in APC so what's your point ? What have south invested in APC ?

redPUSSY:


Tinubu urchins want to ride on Buhari's popularity to get power through the back door, and to use Sescession as a campaign tool against Easter PDP candidate, unfortunately Fulanis are smarter and ahead of them..

Such arrangements afonja were hoping on will never see the light of the day


Sophisticated clowns

They are not smart even ... osibanjo would have resigned 2 years ago then lead south against north maybe that would have worked

Imagine beating around the bush I'm not sure if this people can do anything without blame southwest

mrvitalis:

Igbos have invested in APC so what's your point ? What have south invested in APC ?

2015 and 2019 elections are not far fetched and if you cant recollect kindly help yourself out with google! Both east and south south apc can’t boost of at least 25% in both elections talk more of 50%. Abeg politics is logic not sentiment

LongBig:


2015 and 2019 elections are not far fetched and if you cant recollect kindly help yourself out with google! Both east and south south apc can’t boost of at least 25% in both elections talk more of 50%. Abeg politics is logic not sentiment

Take out all the votes APC got in the south they still worn by 500k votes ...so tell me why should south demand power

By the time Fulanis are done with Nigeria, una go see shege ..

Meanwhile, We stand with Peter Obi for President

mrvitalis:

Take out all the votes APC got in the south they still worn by 500k votes ...so tell me why should south demand power

Lol is like you have forgotten we are talking about presidential election not local government! Lol compare your meager 500k with over 5m votes won in the south west, abeg rest! Go and claim your right with the pdp that is where the east and south south invested. Shikenah!

Malory:
Umahi the deluded will believe any lie thrown at him by the Fulanis

So is the Fulani that says every tom in the South should go and buy presidential form right, is it not in your holy book that a house against itself can never stand?
It is not a bad thing to hate certain thing about some people but hating someone for everything (including the truth) is a sign of stupidity.

AsiwajuOfPeePoo:
If the East cannot get president then the north should keep it.

Your dead brain elders who call themselves Ohanacow can not demand equity, fairness and justice from PDP that you have been enslaving for good 22 years only for you pathetic to demand equity from jubril alsudais ?

Madness runs in Ndi Beafraud DNA

Noccerino:
Umahi spoke my exact mind, if southern unity equates SW presidency then it won't work
SE or we throw it open for all

APC can't zone it's tickets to the east, it's practically senseless move. The heart and soul of APC is Lagos, defunct ACN made huge sacrifices and contribution to see the Buhari emergence in 2015. Buhari and his henchmen just trying to be clever by half ... Penetrate the division amongst the southern ranks and produce a northern candidate. There's nothing stopping the east getting the PDP tickets,they have been absulute PDP for two decades now.

Tinubuadvocate:
Imagine beating around the bush I'm not sure if this people can do anything without blame southwest

From their governors to their elders and even children it is believed that SW is responsible for their miserable predicament in national politics.

Imagine their elders not seeing anything wrong if PDP zone to North but find it offensive if SW comeout to contest