The Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has warned the All
Progressives Congress against marginalising the people of the
South-South and the South-East as this could lead to crisis.Uduaghan
said this during a programme on Channels Television on Sunday.The
governor said the reports of the zoning of key offices by the leadership
of the APC showed that the party might sideline the people of the
South-East and the South-South because the people of the said
geopolitical zones did not vote for the APC.
He, therefore, warned the party to run a government that would foster national integration.
He said, “Governor Rochas Okorocha said the APC is in the mainstream of
the South-East but that is not true. If you monitor their meetings and
the zoning (of key offices), they (APC) seem to be leaving out the
South-East and the South-South because the zones did not vote for them.
“That is very dangerous because every segment of Nigeria must be carried
along. This is because the thing that disenfranchises people and makes
them to go back to trenches is very little. One of the issues in the
last four years was that the North was not carried along but was
neglected by this present government and there was an inflammation of
the Boko Haram because of that.
“Boko Haram had been there before four years ago but because the North
was not being carried along, people were unemployed; the group of people
to be recruited was very much available. This can happen in any part of
the country and that is why I am saying that they (APC) must first put
Nigeria together and ensure that every segment of Nigeria has a sense of
belonging. Don’t say these people are nobodies and you take them for
granted, it would be very dangerous.”
On why President Goodluck Jonathan lost the election, Uduaghan said the
President was surrounded by dishonest people and a team that was not as
strong as those who managed his campaign in 2011.
Uduaghan said the defection of five governors from the Peoples
Democratic Party in 2013 as well as the crisis in the Nigerian
Governors’ Forum contributed to the PDP’s defeat.
He said, “Some people around him (Jonathan) were not telling him the
truth. When you start elbowing people out this is what happens. For
example, why should Olusegun Obasanjo leave the party? He is not
somebody that you can take for granted in Nigeria. Why did we allow him
to go?”
source:Punch
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