Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, during an interview with Channels TV correspondent, has said that the people of the southeast would vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu massively in the forthcoming presidential election.
When he was asked about the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southeast ahead of the 2027 election, the interviewer noted that if President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima retain their positions, the Southeast might push for the leadership of the National Assembly, and he asked how feasible that would be.
Responding to this question, Nwaebonyi said, “Well, well, like I said, it’s after the election that we can start to talk about who leads the National Assembly. However, the Southeast generally is for APC unconditionally. Why do I say so? APC has shown the people of the Southeast love in an extraordinary manner, and I give the credit to the father of the nation, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. You will agree with me that in 2023, the people of the Southeast didn’t vote for PDP and, by implication, didn’t vote as we expected for President Bola Tinubu. But President Tinubu, being a democrat and a nationalist, still gave the people of the Southeast juicy positions in his administration.
“Number one is the office of the Honourable Minister of Works, which is the first of its kind since creation for an Igbo man to occupy that seat. Outside that, as I’m talking to you, this is the very first time since 1914 that the Southeast is receiving due attention in terms of infrastructure development. You will agree with me that as a result of the Nigerian Civil War, most of the infrastructure in the Southeast was eroded, and the reconstruction and rehabilitation programme of the federal government then did not get to the Southeast, even though the region bore a huge brunt of that civil war.
“But President Tinubu, as I’m talking to you, is rehabilitating most of the major roads in the Southeast, which include the Enugu-Onitsha dual carriageway, the Enugu-Aba dual carriageway, the Enugu-Abakaliki dual carriageway, and the mother of all projects is another dual-lane road traversing Calabar to Abakaliki, passing through my community to Benue, down to Abuja because of these reasons….See More
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