Abdullahi Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Alliance (APC), has said that the South East had its best chance of winning the presidency during the late Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s tenure as Vice President.
This was said by Ganduje in Nnewi, Anambra State, at an empowerment rally led by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who represents Anambra South. He insisted that the zone must join the APC and elect APC governors in each of the five states in order to link to the center.
According to him, former President Shehu Shagari was seriously contemplating Ekwueme to succeed him because of the South East’s allegiance to the ruling party at the time.
Ganduje said: “You know when your brother, Alex Ekwueme was the Vice President to our brother, Shehu Shagari. The body language was there, and if not that the military struck, your son, Alex Ekwueme, would have become the President.
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“I tell you this story because the road to political freedom is to key into the ruling party, and once you do that, marginalization would be a thing of the past.”
Ganduje, who was overwhelmed by the large crowd that attended the empowerment rally, said with what he has seen, and with the mobilisation Ifeanyi Ubah has done, and his acceptance in Anambra, the South East is ready to key into mainstream politics.
“We are astonished at the crowd that attended this rally. Our Renewed Hope Agenda is to bring the South East into the mainstream politics. This is not an ordinary rally, but one for empowerment, and we have been informed that everybody here today must go back with something.
“I have seen thousands of motorcycles, tricycles, buses, generators, grinding machines, bags of rice and other foodstuff that will be distributed, and we thank Senator Ifeanyi Ubah for this.”
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, who spoke at the rally, said the party came to encourage Ubah to do more.
He added that President Bola Tinubu has confronted monsters that successive governments feared to confront for years.
He named the monsters to include removal of fuel subsidy and unification of the exchange rate.
“Every government tried and failed, but President Bola Tinubu came and decided to confront them, and the effect is the temporary hunger that you see. That is why he decided to empower representatives with palliatives for them to go back and distribute to the people to confront hunger. That is what we are doing here today.”
Organiser of the rally, Ifeanyi Ubah, in his remarks, said Anambra people will not relent in heeding the call to integrate into mainstream politics by electing an APC governor in 2025.
Ubah is also a governorship aspirant under the party
