A former Minister of Works, Adeseye Ogunlewe, has stated that people from the southeast are to disunited to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023.
Reports say that the former minister stated this while speaking on Arise TV’s ‘The Morning Show’ programme on Wednesday.
According to Ogunlewe, Southeast inability to unite under a common leadership would work against their 2023 presidential ambition.
Ogunlewe said: “Another set of people that are appropriate, they are the people from the Southeast but they have the problem of leadership.
“They are so endowed that they are spread all over Nigeria and they can gather a lot of votes, but they are too divided. An Imo person, an Enugu person, an Ebonyi man will not listen to themselves.
“But have you seen one person from the south-east that said ‘I am interested in the presidency, I will start to campaign all over Nigeria immediately, raise money for me?’ and influence the structure of the party?”