Obi-Atiku pairing can’t deny Buhari south east votes – Uche Nwosu

Governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, has said that the choice of Peter Obi as the vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 polls will not stop President Muhammadu Buhari from winning in the zone.

Nwosu in an interview with some journalists in Owerri, said that the nomination of the former governor of Anambra state by the PDP is another ploy to derail the Igbo Presidency in 2023.

Nwosu said“I don’t think that the nomination of the PDP Presidential running mate from the Southeast will affect anything, because President Muhammadu Buhari has made a landmark, I call him a man of his word. One this is sure that President Buhari cannot be compared to Atiku Abubarkar. President Buhari is a man of integrity and remember that the country was almost gone before he came in and since he came in, you can see that every part of our economy is doing well and our integrity abroad has been restored and the fear of corruption is very high now, so President Buhari remains the best for Ndigbo and the country”.

He added, “Aybody from the Southeast who is supporting Atiku is doing a very big mistake, we cannot afford to wait for another eight years to have an Igbo man as a President, I think it is a carrot that is being dangled at Ndigbo but we must reject it, we cannot wait for another eight years, we prefer to vote for PresidentBuhari and in the next four years, power will return to the Southeast.

“So the issue of Vice President cannot bring anything to the Southeast, you cannot compare a Vice President to a President. So the issue of bringing Peter Obi is to deceive Ndigbo again and make them continue the waiting all over again. What we are asking for as Ndigbo is a president, not Vice President, that is not what we need.

“When President Buhari finishes in 2023, it will be the turn of Ndigbo, so no Igbo man that is well in politics, will think of supporting Atiku Abubakar, who will want to stay for another eight years, no that is not acceptable. So we shall vote for Buhari enmasse to ensure that Ndigbo will only have to wait for four years”.

Nwosu also dismissed insinuations that the APC may have been weakened by crisis arising from the just concluded primaries, saying, “I don’t think it has affected the party in anyway, it is politics and the most important thing is that at the end of the whole thing we must settle. Issue of our quarrel will be resolved because the APC is a big party and the party in power, it is not a problem at all”.