Six APC Presidential Aspirants Urge Buhari To Zone Presidency To The South East

Six presidential aspirant from the South East have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to make one of them his preferred presidential candidate.

The aspirants who made the request to the president in a letter dated June 6 were Ikeobasi Mokelu, Ogbonnaya Onu, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Dave Umahi, Rochas Okorocha and the only woman among them, Uju Ahanenye.

They encouraged the president to consider picking the party’s candidate from the southern part of the country.

The letter reads: “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.”