Ganduje laments lack of unity in the southeast saying four different parties are in control

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) chairman Dr Abdullahi Ganduje has urged political leaders in the southeast geo-political zone to work towards unity lamenting the fact that four different parties are in power across the region.

Speaking at a recent event where he received Anambra South Senator, Ifeanyi Ubah who defected from the Young Progressives Party YPP to the APC, he stated that with the federal lawmaker now on board, the APC would increase its hold of two states in the zone to more. According to Dr Ganduje, four political parties are in control of a geo-political zone which has just five states.

Dr Ganduje said: “This is the biggest fish I have caught, marginalization is a controversial issue. Let us see what is happening in the southeast with five states. Three states are controlled by different political parties. We have PDP, Labour Party, Apga and the remaining two APC.

"Now, a geo-political zone with five states is controlled by four political parties. Is this a sense of unity? Is this a sense of collective decision in order to participate in national politics? No."

Senator Ubah added:“I want to be sincere, it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions. However, since our president has emerged and I put that challenge to each Igbo man today in Nigeria, 70% – 80% of them derive their wealth from the legacy that the president has left in Lagos.

"Our president is the politician that understands how it pains and how to console everybody. He has that capacity. One of the important things for me to tell our people is the appointment of Engineer Dave Umahi as the minister of works for the very first time, irrespective of our very low turnout of votes to him.

“Our president is rewarding those who didn’t vote for him. For that it will be very difficult for any man with conscience not to look in the direction of the centre party and for that. I, my family and my constituency, I consulted widely. I don’t see anyone who will come against my coming into the APC."

Senate president Senator Godswill Akpabio said he was at the party secretariat to introduce the new entrant into the APC, He added that Senator Ubah is a  man who survived the tsunami in the southeast when the Labour Party was deceiving Nigerians.