By Myke Uzendu, Abuja
Frontline Presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa has disclosed that the country will advance to political sophistication after each segment of the country has had a bite at the Presidency.
Ohuabunwa in a telephone conversation on Monday said that at the end of the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, the way should be paved for South adding that the office should naturally go to the South East that has not had a taste of it.
He said, “We believe that as a country with federating units, a country built by a lot of ethnic nationalities, before they were predominantly three: Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba but now we know that they are more than three. In 1989, we decided to dissolve into six geopolitical zones and we have seen party’s especially PDP put in their constitution that power should rotate between North and South for the purposes of enthroning
inclusiveness, equity and fairness and that is what we have practiced for a while, it goes North it goes South.
“It is in the North during this period of Buhari, everybody is saying that it should come South and if it comes South,we look at the three geopolitical zones that constitute the South, South West, South East South South and it is South East that has not had it among the Southern states.
“That is why everyman of conscience and equity is saying South East so that when it goes back to the North we shall aslo ask when party of the North has it not gone to, is it East or West or Central and we give that region until everyone has a taste.
“My own thinking is that by the time everyone has had a chance, our political sophistication must have been proved. By that time we would have had Presidents that would have run this country as a country, and not a country where they will be blind to other peoples needs. Our country is a country of bio diversity and diverse ethnic nation It is like a rainbow nation.
“I think that power should go to the South and if it is in the South,the South East is the natural recipient”.
The Presidential hopeful who is a pharmacist for over three decades and the Chief Executive of Neimeth pharmaceutical said that he has occupied top management positions and was board member of several Federal government establishments which gives him the requisite experience for the plum position.
Mazi Ohuabunwa has since November 2021 declared his intentions to run for the Presidency and last week met with the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP to officially inform the party.
