Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has faulted the Minister of Works David Umahi over his declaration that “it is not yet the turn of the South-East” to produce Nigeria’s president in 2027.
Obi said that only the electorate — not political elites — have the power to decide who becomes president.
He says that while the debate over regional rotation should not ordinarily dominate politics, it had become the reality in Nigeria.
Recall Umahi, in an interview with newsmen on Sunday, urged South-East politicians to drop their presidential ambitions and rally behind President Bola Tinubu for re-election.