Zone Presidency To South East Now, Okorocha, Umahi, Others Tell Buhari In A Letter

Six presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking for the zoning of the party’s candidate to the South-East.

The presidential aspirants are Rochas Okorocha, Dave Umahi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Ikeobasi Mokelu, Chukwurmeka Nwajiuba and Uju Ken Ahanenye.

In the letter which was dated 6 June 2022, they argued that for the sake of equity and unity, it is only fair that the APC zones the ticket to the South East, which is yet to produce a President for the country

“Your Excellency, we most humbly request that this position of our brothers from the North be deepened and made even more wholesome by further zoning this position to the South-East.”

“We are all aware that no President can emerge without the support of various geopolitical zones and without the express collaboration of our brothers and sisters from other zones of Nigeria.

“With our Convention at hand, your kind directive for the deepening of unity in diversity, championed by our founding fathers solely on the basis of strengthening national unity and cohesion and for rousing victory at the 2023 elections, are stated objectives in your speeches to the Progressive governors forum, the APC aspirants dinner and the meeting of APC stakeholders.

“Furthermore, we are humbly requesting that you consider and pick your chosen candidate from the South-East aspirants in line with your stated objectives of handing over to trusted party loyalists.

“We humbly seek your Excellency’s prompt and kind intervention to enable the party delegates assume proper guidance,” the letter read in part.