South
Should Forget 2023 Presidency - Junaid Mohammed
Junaid
Mohammed, a Second Republic member of House of Representatives has stated that
the South should forget 2023 Presidency as the North will present a candidate
in the election year.
The
former lawmaker claimed that zoning and rotation of power have collapsed and as
such any region with the political strength can claim the coveted position.
He
also accused Ohanaeze of collecting millions of naira to support Atiku
Abubakar’s presidential bid. Speaking with Vincent Kalu, Junaid Mohammed who
stated that the South should forget 2023 Presidency, added that the 2019
election had people who were responsible for maintaining law and at the
forefront on mangling the election and upturning peoples mandate.
On
equity in 2023, he said; "I don’t want to hear about this equity and
justice, that is sheer nonsense. The people who abused this equity and justice
are the people from the Southeast because whatever we are talking about, in a
democracy you cannot circumvent voting figures.
"You
can say it is time for my people. We will not vote for you and let’s see what
happens. I said it in one of my statements, look at the way the people of the
Southeast voted during the last election; they have a humongous collection of
votes and they all voted for Atiku, and they expect somebody to come from his
own area to vote for them.
"If
you want other Nigerians to vote for you, you better look for other Nigerians
and make a choice. Maybe, in 2023, Kanu will come and force all Nigerians to
vote for them. Democracy is a question of give and take; you vote for me and I
vote for you, that was what Michael Okpara used to say. You don’t vote for me
and maybe you think that by abusing me on the pages of newspapers that I will
vote for you. I will not. If I come back into active politics, it will be
because of that. Let us see, for abusing people how they will vote for you.
"Look
at Ohanaeze, how they are duping people; they collected millions from Atiku.
Let us see 2023, by the grace of God, which candidate they want to produce.
"There
are over 232 ethnic groups in Nigeria, how can anybody be a candidate of a
group and expect to be voted by the others. You pressmen you have a
responsibility to enlighten people. I want to see how they will pick the
candidate from Southeast in 2023. Some of us traditionally, we don’t talk too
much, but don’t imagine that we will keep quiet and do your own bidding, it
will not happen. See what is happening now, we have started the second term of
Buhari’s administration, but today, people are scrambling for 2023, and the
Yoruba are saying that it is their turn. How it’s their turn, I don’t know.
"We
keep on making this mistake of agitation of, ‘it is our turn’ over and over
again. After all, somebody says the classical definition of madness is doing
the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
"This
is what I see happening in Southeast; you don’t vote for anybody, you only vote
for who gives money, also those who say they are in APGA; all those who belong
to the Igbo faction of PDP. They should think back and think of their own
generation of those who are promising and who are educated and who don’t see
politics as trading. Politics is not trading; it is a serious matter."
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