South East APC Presidential Aspirants have written
a letter to President Buhari asking him to pick one of them as the consensus
candidate of the party for the 2023 presidential election.
In a letter signed by Ikeobasi Mokelu, former
ministers of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu; state for
Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, and Mrs.
Ken Uju-Ohanenye, the aspirants humbly requested President Buhari
to consider and pick his chosen candidate from the South-East aspirants.
Read the full letter below
We the undersigned, who are aspirants to the
Office of President on the platform of our party the APC. write to commend your
fatherly leadership of our country and our party.
2. We also commend your unequivocal approval of
the position of the 14 Progressive governors from Northern Nigeria, to ensure
that your successor is elected from the southern part of Nigeria. We also
commend the governors for this patriotic and unifying stand. United we stand –
Our unity in diversity has been the rallying point of all patriots.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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."