Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation,
says the people of south-east not to demand
the presidency in 2023.


The All Progressives Congress (APC) got less
votes in the region during the 2019 presidential
election and the minister described this as
voting against the party.

In an interview with The Sun , Amaechi said the
Igbo has nothing to bring in negotiating for
2023 presidency.

“I don’t know what they will do now for voting
against the APC,” he said.

“For refusing to support the APC, they cannot
come to the table to demand the presidency
slot.

“For people like us in the APC, if the Igbo had
come and voted Buhari, they would boldly tell
Mr President and the National Chairman of the
party that presidency should go the Southeast
since the South-south; South-west and North-
west have produced president. What argument
would the Southeast come up with now to
convince anybody that they deserve the slot for
2023 president?”


The minister said the region is completely out
of national politics and if Igbo are not found in
national politics, it will be to the detriment of
their children.

Ahead of the 2019 elections, Boss Mustapha,
secretary to the government of the federation
(SGF), has also said the chances of Igbo
clinching the presidential seat would depend on
the vote the region turns in for President
Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Since the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria
is yet to have a president of Igbo extraction.
Speaking on the way forward for the ruling
party, Amaechi said the APC needs to do a lot
of reengineering and put the party together if
they would continue to be in power.


He said there are lots of meetings that they are
supposed to be having like those they used to
hold those meetings when he was in the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).


“They need to bring caucus together, set up
structures at the states and local government
levels that will be meeting regularly,” he said.
“They also need to fund those structures. If
these things happen, APC will continue to rule
the country but I have a problem with the fact
that everybody is not completely involved.

When I say that everybody is not completely
involved, it is not that because people are
holding meetings, there are not anywhere
people are holding meetings more than the
other, but just that we need to play more party
politics.”

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instead of making plans on how to move the country forward,what we keep hearing is this rubbish,people are dying because of hunger,our graduates have no job,insecurity everywhere,but to our leaders 2023 election is the pressing issue,if you are still young and see oppoturnity to leave this country,don't waste time,the country is in hopless mode