The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has stated Igbos never agreed to provide Nigeria’s President for simply 4 years with the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Umahi made the comment in an interview with Arise Television aired on Friday, the place he stated Obi ought to have consulted him and different political stakeholders within the South-East earlier than making such a remark.
Umahi famous that Obi ought to have consulted as a result of his future, that of Ebonyi State, and all the South-East is concerned.
He stated: “Igbos should be president and it’s four years while others are doing eight years. Who in South-East reached that agreement with our brother Peter Obi to say that you will go for us?
“There are three presidential candidates from the Igbo extraction, you possibly can’t play politics within the South-East with out consulting folks like us. He ought to have come as a result of my future can be concerned, the way forward for my state and brothers are additionally concerned.
“So we will sit down and discuss, is it the best time for us to look for this, do we support another region so that when it’s our turn, the region will support us? If I was contesting that would have been done.
“Again, if presidential slot is to be given to the South-East, the President begins his job from the highest to the underside, will probably be the flip of Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, or Abia as a result of we’ve had President Azikiwe from Anambra, so cannot we additionally permit different states if we’re saying that the Igbos never waited?”
