Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of Anambra State has appealed to Governor Dave Umahji of Ebonyi State to withdraw his statement that Ebonyi people will vote for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections.

Ezeife who spoke on Arise Television on Wednesday stated that even though Umahi is his personal friend, he must advise him.

He said, “There are people who don’t understand the ABC of politics in Nigeria. Umahi decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and I saw him in the house of Pius Ayim when he came to lobby Anyim to join him and discovered that Pius refused, instead of him considering why Anyim refused he still joined the APC.

“How many people followed him to APC? Umahi as governor and even chairman of the South-East governor’s forum came out directly to fight the interest of his people. I have read so many things about him. How he has brought in people who killed his people. This time around I think I will appeal to him, maybe I will go personally to him and tell him to withdraw the statement that he made. He should say a different statement from what he had said. Politicking in that manner doesn’t help anybody in the South-East. What is worse is that the position cannot help Nigeria.

Ezeife added, “We are more interested in the blacks across the world which is why God gave us what he did. If a person like the chairman of the South-East governor’s forum feels that his people should not vote for Peter Obi, he is talking for himself, and he must withdraw it fast. He must withdraw that statement very fast.”

On his impression of Tinubu’s presidential candidacy, he said, “I contributed to Tinubu becoming Lagos State governor. He was the only person who supported me financially when my wife was kidnapped. I am not saying anything personal against him but if I have my vote I won’t vote for him because I don’t want him to go there and die.

“The Yoruba and the Igbo are the reasons we have problems in Nigeria because the two don’t understand themselves since 1952. If the Yoruba and the Igbo can understand themselves and love Nigeria all domination by any group will be a thing of the past,” he said. (Daily Independent)

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