By Aiyeku Timothy
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has stated that the South East must play a better politics to produce Nigeria’s President, in 2023.
Adesina, in his latest article on Thursday evening, titled: ‘Dave Umahi’s heart of Lion,” described Umahi’s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress, (APC) as that of a “lion’s heart.”
The presidential spokesman noted that politicians like Senator Orji Kalu; Hope Uzodimma Governor of Imo State; Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, are pushing for the South East to produce Nigeria’s next president.
The article reads partly: “I’ve always said it. The South East must play better politics to get the ultimate office in the country. Sleeping and facing the same direction may not be the best option.
“The Orji Kalus, Hope Uzodimmas, Chris Ngiges, Dave Umahis, and many others, are now shining the light, so that their people can find the way. And so let it be.
“Umahi had been a PDP man, possibly all of his political career. He was a deputy governor to Martin Elechi for eight years, succeeded him as governor, and is now in his second term.
“Umahi had always loved and respected President Muhammadu Buhari, and never hid it, though they were of different political parties. And the President reciprocated in like manner. In fact, the first State the President ever visited in the country, and passed the night, was Ebonyi. Umahi was PDP in the exterior, but APC at heart.
“My first inkling of what was on the way was about two years ago. There was a meeting of Progressive Governors (as those elected on the platform of APC are called), and Gov Umahi had sent his deputy to attend. A PDP man among APC Governors? Something was definitely cooking.”
This article is coming in the wake of the clamour from the South East for the presidency in the coming general election.
