Southeast stands to gain more if Buhari is re-elected in 2019 – SGF

Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, at the weekend, declared that re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 would fast-track South East’s quest to produce the President of the country.

He said the zone would stand a good chance if it backs President Buhari in the next election, to be supported to produce the President. The SGF also cautioned the zone against making fatal political mistake that will ruin its yearnings.

Mustapha stated this at a reception organised for the Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Affairs Office, Barr. Georgina Ehuria, by the former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu.

Responding to remarks made by Kalu, that Igbo have decided to give 75 percent votes to President Buhari if he decides to run for a second term in office, Mustapha said the South East will not regret voting massively for Buhari in 2019.

“I know how you can commute, how you can fix the figures and how they come and arrive at the destination. And I can tell you without any fear, without any iota of doubt that the shortest path to an Igbo presidency is for Buhari to complete his tenure and now engage the Igbo nation in a decisive move”.

Mustapha added that no single group could ascend to the presidency of Nigeria without negotiation, urging the Igbo to bring to bear their entrepreneurial spirit in navigating the way to the presidency of Nigeria.

Speaking earlier, Orji Kalu thanked President Buhari for finding his sister worthy to be appointed a permanent secretary, noting that Ehuria is an exceptional lady.

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Kalu further said Ehuria’s appointment had shown that the president is looking towards the people of the South East.

“President Buhari has done very well and also giving us one strong appointment in my local government and we, the Igbos, we have decided; the PDP, APC, APGA, PPA that if the president is running again, he will have 75 percent vote in the South East. And this is a statement of fact,” Kalu said.

Kalu declared that his support for President Buhari was not borne out of inordinate desire, but out of patriotism and for the president’s novel act of infrastructural drive in the South East.