Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-east have warned President Muhammadu Buhari to disassociate himself from the purported unity list in circulation, threatening that the re-election bid of tne president was at the stake in the region.
Addressing newsmen at the APC national secretariat on Friday, four out of the five state chairmen from the South-east said any attempt to ignore the earlier endorsement of the outgoing national officers for re-election will be an aberration on their part.
The state chairmen which include; Chief Ben Nwoye of Enugu, Eze Nwavhkwu Eze of Ebonyi and Donatus Nwankpa of Abia and Emeka Obasi of Anambra.
Speaking on behalf of the chairmen, Chief Ben Nwoye said it was not possible to have a unity list ahead of Saturday’s convention without considering the interest of South-east people in the ruling party.
“You cannot have a unity list when one geo-political zone is not considered. that is a misnomer, you cannot consider that to be a unity list. If you meet in a hall where you have just governors and South-east has just one governor, and that one governor is the only opinion you took out of 5 states and you produce a list, that is not a unity list.
“Infact that is a disunity list and the only way you can correct the disunity list is through democratic list. If that individual is popular, they take on and they show up instead of canvassing and waiting for former this and former that making phone calls to people that if they produce this so called unity list which I tag disunity list, it will cause mr president the election in south east, it will cause disaffection.
“We are doing this not because of us. You cannot disregard Jim Nwobodo, you can’t disregard Orji Uzor Kalu, Ogbonaya Onu, Chris Ngige, Martin Elechi, Sulivan Chime, Andy Ubah, Ugbo Orji, Benjamin Umagimoju and state chairmen. These are great leaders.
“If you produce a list that wants affront to the needs, demands and opinions of these leaders, that means we will go back to 2015 when we were not all able to contribute to the vote . These are people that with their own ideas alongside all these entrants, we are sure to win south East for President Muhammadu Buhari anyone putting up a unity list that fails to be all inclusive of our leaders is doing no good, infact its doing harm to the oppurtunities we have already created.
“These state chairmen have raised the statue of our party in the south-east. We were being called Boko haram but we stood our ground. At the point we were standing our ground, most of the people they are listening now were not there.”
