8 Things Ndigbo Will Gain From Buhari’s Re-election – DG VON
The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has listed a number of benefits that the people of South East stand to gain if President Muhamadu Buhari is returned to office in 2019.
Speaking in a statement on Thursday in Enugu, Okechukwu lauded the meeting between President Buhari and some South East Governors at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, expressing confidence that it would yield fruits.
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The DG VON reminded the South East people that they stand to gain completion of projects started in the region by Buhari if they vote the president in 2019.
He named such projects as “the 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Aba-Calabar, 9th Mile-Makurdi federal roads, Eastern Standard Gauge Railways, Enugu Coal”.
He equally echoed a statement credited to the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, who was said to have told the South East governors at the meeting with Buhari that re-electing the president in 2019 is the shortest cut to Igbo presidency in 2023.
“One cannot forget Senators Ekweremadu, and Ngige in their entourage, Chiefs Chekwas Okorie, Emeka Okwuosa and all those who share the same popular view with the Zikist-Buharist-Movement (ZBM), that Ndigbo cannot put all our Eggs in one basket, as a Bird in hand is more than one thousand in the bush.
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“In the fullness of time, history will be on the side of the South East Governors for their wisdom and pragmatism; aimed at Buhari’s completion of the 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Aba-Calabar, 9th Mile-Makurdi federal roads, Eastern Standard Gauge Railways, Enugu Coal and most importantly Nigeria president of Igbo extraction in 2023.
“For the avoidance of doubt, one submits that Buhari is not going to single handedly make Ndigbo president, but voting for him will not only make his supporters nationwide to support us, but will reinforce the equity, and natural justice on the side of the South East, the only geopolitical zone in the southern belt that has not presided over Nigeria from the Aso Presidential Villa, Abuja,” the VON DG said.
