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ENUGU – The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe on Saturday expresses worry over insecurity challenges in South East describing it as a tragedy.

Senator Abaribe who stated this in Enugu on Saturday while Speaking during the investiture of the 16th President of Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture(ECCIMA), Barr. Jasper Nduagwuike on Saturday called on Ndigbo to concentrate on making the Southeast as the economic hub of Nigeria irrespective of the outcome of their 2023 presidential quest.

He also lamented the negative effect of Mondays’ sit-at-home on the economy of the region, saying rather than achieve anything good, the exercise had ended up driving businessmen away from the region.

He urged the businessmen, industrialists and all stakeholders in the Southeast to emulate the people of Bavaria in Germany and Catalonia in Spain for jettisoning everything about ruling the countries but concentrated on making their regions economic hub of their countries.

“We want to turn the Southeast into the Catalonia of Spain, the biggest industrial area in that country. It doesn’t matter that they are seeking their own self-sufficiency.

“They still become the industrial hub of that place so that at the end, even if you are going anywhere, you are going to become a viable country.

“If you destroy your place, where are you going to be when everything is destroyed.

“We want to turn the Southeast into the Bavaria of Nigeria. Bavaria is the industrial hub of Germany today. No Bavarian has been made president of Germany because they are the people that are holding the economy.

“I want to task each and every one of us especially the chamber of commerce that our job is cut out for us,” he said

Senator Abaribe stressed the need to make Southeast to become more attractive to businesses, adding that giving into Mondays’sit-at-home could succeed in destroying the economy of the region.

According to him “What we need in the southeast is to turn the zone to a place that attracts people not the place that people are running away from. We cannot grow as a region if we don’t work 24 hours daily to uplift our standard of living”

He said that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, told him while in detention that he neither ordered nor knew about the Monday sit-at-home which has continued to be observed in the Southeast.

“It is unfortunate that businesses were now relocating to other regions as a result of insecurity in the region.

“What is happening in Southeast is a tragedy. Every Monday people sit at home in what they call ‘Holy Monday’. What is holy in making people suffer like this?

“IPOB has said countless times that they are not the ones enforcing the order. We don’t know who is enforcing it neither does it seem like we have a way to solve it.


“I went with Ike Ekweremadu and two Bishops to the DSS to see Nnamdi Kanu and he told us ‘I have never said people should sit at home. I told him that nobody believes you outside. Because people have said they don’t like it but they keep sitting at home.

“There is no way we are going to survive like this. You are sitting at home and the people who you are doing these things for are in Lagos and in Abuja and everywhere and they don’t care. And you are here killing your own.

“Aba is known for bringing and opening containers of imported goods on Mondays. So, the problem we’re having today is that because of the sit-at-home, people now go to Port Harcourt, Uyo and Calabar to open their containers. They’re leaving Southeast and moving out to Lagos. When we all leave, who will you blame? The captains of industries are no longer there,” he said

Senator Abaribe who lamented that the insecurity of the Southeast had assumed the biggest problem of the region said Insecurity in Southeast is the biggest problem we are facing now. And the sooner we tackle it the better for us.

“Even if you are seeking a separate country, why would you destroy your own place with your hands? You need to have a viable country and not a scattered one”

In his address, Jasper Nduagwuike expresses his commitment to work in the repositioning of the chamber.

He added that his administration will ensure the construction of a befitting Trade Fair Complex in Enugu.

“Since every effort to get the Federal Government to build the complex seemed to have failed, the chamber under my leadership will take up the construction of the complex,” he said

Asgard73:
Nigerians should be weary of this Yoruba propaganda

Is the given right of governors and presidents to anoint someone they wished to continue from their legacies

And that’s what Udom ugwuanyi and others are doing .. even Buhari..

.. is left for the political party and the people to decide their choice.


But Yoruba trying to equate this with Tinubu is a clever deceit ..

Tinubu is The Godfather o Yoruba politics and god of Yoruba people ..

No governor in Yoruba land has ever chosen his successor .. Tinubu appoint his cronies .. from governor to ward chairman to agbero for each park, market women and markets ..

This man controls all aspects of Yoruba live and their region

Pls op be guided .. Nigerians are not fools ..

edmaraja:
The Nigerian masses will vote for Peter Obi. We don't take orders from governors. Morever your maths shows how ignorant you are. Who are those that voted for Atiku/Obi in the south west? Is it not the Igbos living there? We all know who Yorubas voted for so stop being clever by half. Igbos live everywhere in this country and they voted for Obi wherever they are.

WATCHOVER:
That should not be a Yard stick as long the party is ready and at a time were the East seems to be getting sympathy from all over the country.
My only concern is that they seems to lack confidence in their own

AMIDST public suspense over the zoning of the 2023 presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a cold war is brewing between the national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu and Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, over issues relating to the plans by the new party leadership to run an all-inclusive administration by reconnecting with estranged leaders of the party. 

Sources informed the Sunday Tribune that some stakeholders have, however, advised the governor to tread with caution, warning that his action, which was to protect his own enlightened self-interest, could cause a fresh crisis in the party. 

The sources said one of the issues responsible for the crisis of confidence between the duo was the recent visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Abeokuta, Ogun State, residence by the PDP national chairman with some former governors, which sources said, angered the Rivers governor. 

The governor had reportedly expressed reservation on the plan by Ayu to lead a delegation to Obasanjo, ostensibly to woo back the exPDP leader on the grounds of political differences with the former president. 

After the visit, the governor was reportedly not taken aback by Obasanjo’s open declaration that he had left partisan politics.


Said one of the sources, “when Ayu disregarded Wike and went to Abeokuta, Ogun State but came back with a message that Obasanjo said he would never return to partisan politics, the governor said he was not surprised. He reportedly said the party was beginning to align with some forces that will be counterproductive to his vision of the PDP. So, a crisis of confidence is already brewing between Wike and Ayu.” 


Another point of disagreements between them was said to be the attendance at the penultimate Friday rally organised by the PDP to receive defectors from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. 

Governor, believed to be nurturing a presidential ambition, was reportedly not comfortable that some ‘old’ PDP leaders were assembled by Ayu for the declaration apparently to take a commanding position in the scheme of things. 

Some former ministers, governors and other high profile politicians of the party graced the reception for the leader of the Lagos4Lagos group to the PDP recently. 

“Secondly, Wike is not happy that when Ayu came to the Lagos4Lagos event in Lagos, he came with some former ministers and ex-governors, among them, Alhaji Sule Lamido, Senator Liyel Imoke, ex-Governor Donald Duke, Kabiru Turaki and Dr Olusegun Mimiko. 

“He believed Ayu is reawakening the old PDP and surrounding himself with old PDP elements. He complained bitterly,” the source alleged. 

Though there were reports, at the weekend, that the governor may have set up a crack team to defend his interest in the light of the emerging power equation in the PDP, the team’s membership could not be established at press time. 

“Wike has brought together some people and briefed them on how to tackle Ayu,” the source stated, adding that the fear in the camp of the governor is that Ayu’s attempt at reuniting influential members of the party ahead of coming elections would weaken his influence, especially given that some of the old PDP stalwarts were perceived as part of the problems of the former ruling party. 

Wike wielded great influence in the process that threw up PDP national leadership in the past, including the immediate national executive under the chairmanship of Prince Uche Secondus. Some concerned PDP leaders were said to have waded in, describing the development as unhealthy for the party and the governor. 

“The people advised Wike to steer clear of starting any crisis with Ayu because people might perceive him as a troublemaker and too domineering

hisexcellency34:
Normal in Nigerian politics

helinues:
Those are the chieftains supporting thugs.. Imagine them going physical in public.

Shame

Emperor2020:
Is affecting other tribe,becos if no business in ibo land all other state shutdown and it affects there economy as well

Jostoman:
you are already in pain because PDP is about to take the business center of your Oga

headSmasher:
PDP in Lagos state, what a joke taken too far

Thisis2raw:
I think it's time another party rules lagos.

Bellfun:
I just love the Lagos APC...

...planting insiders into PDP since 1723!

Vistra40:
You had to single out SE from those other regions. Your statement is more of a wish than a fact so that if it happens, you would come here and say “ I told you so”

salesbloo:
Nigerians Coming Back From The Different Countries They All Traveled Thru VPN on Twitter

https://twitter.com/yhoma_/status/1481407601879441417

doggedfighter:
We moved on.










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