Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, on Monday, Augest 02, 2021 took a cursory look at the nation’s political landscape and declared that only God can now enable the South-East to produce a President of Igbo extraction in 2023.
Governor Umahi disclosed during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, when asked if an Igbo will be able to pick the presidential ticket of the APC, he said: “It’s in the hands of God”.
On whether God is a party member, the Governor replied in the affirmative saying: “He is. He directs our affairs. He gives breath to every man so power belongs to God. Whatever thing we wish will come through only through God. If God says yes, no one can say no.”
The Ebonyi Governor also backed the APC’s caretaker arrangement, noting that the interim Chairman and Yobe State Governor, Mala Buni is not being paid as the committee was set up by the party to do a particular job.
With the President Muhammadu Buhari administration expected to elapse in about 17 months’ time from now, there has been uncertainty as to which zone would produce the presidency.
While the southern region has been agitating to have the presidential slot, none of the nation’s two dominant parties – All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has officially given the slot to the zone.
