A presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, former Minister of Science and Technology, at the party’s national convention at the Eagle Square, Abuja, on Tuesday, protested that the ruling party is unfair to southeast Nigeria. According to Onu, “there is no justice in having the All Progressives Congress (APC) fail to zone the 2023 presidency to the South East.”
Onu, speaking at the convention, emphasised: “What is very important, exceptionally important, is that we must ensure that justice is upheld.
“Naturally, it should be somebody from the South East that will replace, and that will give the opposite South versus North and Christian versus Muslim a balance, and it will bring stability to the nation; it will strengthen Nigeria.
“The Southwest had eight years as president, eight years as vice president; the South-South had eight years as president and vice president, where is the justice? Where is the justice?”
Onu noted that in 1999, he had to step down from the presidential race of the All People Party (APP) for Olu Falae of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) for two South West candidates to contest the presidential election.
Onu highlighted: “I held the presidential ticket for one of the three parties then, but I had to let it go in order to solve a problem with the South West, to make sure that two Olus contested for the presidency, that head or tail, one will become the president and that brought down tension within the country.
“This is what would have happened if we had allowed the Southeast at this time.”
Onu maintained that the APC needs to do what is right, saying, if such a just measure is taken, then the nation will have peace and under a peaceful atmosphere, the country will prosper.