FORGET ABOUT 2023 PRESIDENCY- Amaechi Tells Igbos

Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the South East cannot bargain for the 2023 presidency on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) having failed to support the party in the 2019 general election

Amaechi, who was speaking in an interview with newsmen, recalled that in the period leading to the just-concluded election, he had appealed to the South East to support Buhari and the APC.

The former Rivers State Governor noted that such support would have made it easier for the region to produce the president in 2023.

Reminded that he was the first APC politician to promise the Igbos the 2023 presidency, Amaechi said, “I was the first to do that but I don’t know what the situation is now.

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