Igbo presidency: Buhari will handover to Osinbajo, don’t be deceived – Chekwas Okorie tells South East

The National Chairman of the United
Progressives Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie,
has reminded Ndigbo that President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives
Congress, APC, never promised to hand over
power to them in 2023.
Okorie described the offer being carried about
by some South East APC leaders as the ‘worst
form of deceit’, stressing that only the
unintelligent would fall for it.
The politician, who spoke with Sunday Sun,
noted that Buhari would rather handover power
to his Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who has
been loyal to him, to compensate the
Southwest region.
Okorie said, “It’s a very unintelligent proposal
by mostly Igbo politicians in APC because it’s
not an APC agenda. Buhari or his close aides
never alluded to anything like that; you always
hear of it from Igbo people who do not know
what they want from APC.
“They believe that the only way they can get
Igbo votes is to make this kind of promise that
is not based on logic or any political thinking. It
is the worst form of deceit and it’s only the
unwary, especially those on the lowest rung of
intelligence quotient, that will buy into that kind
of story.
“I say this very clearly because President
Buhari has a Vice and they have been working
very closely together from the observation of
many Nigerians. This is a man that held forth
when the president was away for over 100
days on sick leave.
“And if for any unfortunate reason Buhari
comes back in 2019 (I put it that way because
I’m one of those that don’t think he should
come back) and decides to run with this same
very loyal Vice President, what makes anybody
think that after eight years in office, he will not
reward him and his political zone, but them and
go for the South-East?
“What is the attraction from the South East
region that will make Buhari to go in that
direction? And what has Buhari ever said or
done that will give the people of the South
East the impression that he loves them that
much? As a matter of fact, he has used every
opportunity to tell them that he doesn’t like
them.
“Even when Igbo leaders went to see him, he
reminded them that he had only 198,000 votes
from the South-east in 2015. He hasn’t
forgotten the support that the South-east gave
to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“So, how he would turn around and reward
them with support for presidential position
against those who first of all made up the
number for him to become president and gave
him a loyal vice beats my imagination.
“I see the people who are canvassing it as
exceedingly mischievous, dishonest and
untrustworthy, because they know what they
are doing. I don’t think it’s stupidity; they know
that they are trying to mislead the people.
“But the people are too sophisticated to be led
by the nose, not in this time and period when
some of us are still alive,” Okorie said.