THE CONTEXT IN WHICH SENATOR FEMI OKUNROUNMU SAID THAT PEOPLE MUST VOTE SOUTH-EAST IN THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

THE CONTEXT IN WHICH SENATOR FEMI OKUNROUNMU SAID THAT PEOPLE MUST VOTE SOUTH-EAST IN THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

In the context of palpable existential threat to Nigeria as a corporate entity, those who love Nigeria and want it to survive as one country must be emphatic on the remedy: election of Peter Obi (who happens to be from the South-East geopolitical zone) as President of Nigeria to succeed President Buhari.

But it is not so much about giving way to the South-East as giving way to a credible South-Easterner...the same thing I said repeatedly since past seven years plus, except that I had, between PDP and APC, wanted the South-Easterner to emerge on APC platform.

The death nail to APC (and PDP), two parties now facing existential challenges of their own as some of us had prophesied or warned, was that they were dumb to ignore our commonsensical reasoning since June 2015 and will pay for their dumbness on 25th February 2023. 

And they better not attempt to steal Obi's victory as they had stolen other things.

Obi is a credible South-Easterner for President of Nigeria and he will receive the over 50 million votes I spoke about repeatedly since 2021. 

If Obi was not credible, not even I would today be talking about South-East. Femi Okunrounmu and other supporters of South-East for President of Nigeria have remained steadfast in their support largely because of credibility of the person of Obi. 

It is important to make that point as the underlying reason for the emphatic "must" by Okunrounmu and the best hope for Nigeria's survival after Buhari's quite nightmarish presidency. 

Nigeria simply has nothing to hope for with Atiku and worst of all the man with a dubious name and dubious everything else. Nigeria would terminate with either of the two. That much is clear to even the dumb. 

Of course, that is what some people want for which they are supporting "Tinubu" or Atiku, but no true Nigerian patriot and nationalist can want Nigeria to terminate.

Dr. Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu

Former presidential aspirant (2003 and 2023).