Politics

APC Convention: Igbos, Not Other Tribes, Marginalizing Themselves – Political Analyst

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3 years ago

June 10, 2022

A political analyst in Zamfara State, Alhaji Musa Bawa, has said the southeasterners should blame themselves for not producing Nigeria’s president for decades, saying that it has emerged that they do not speak with one voice.

According to him, the disunity among them has brought into sharp focus why they have been sabotaging their own efforts and paving way for other geopolitical zones.

Speaking with DAILY POST in Gusau, the state capital, Bawa pointed out that they are the ones marginalizing themselves.

He explained that the parochial political strategy of the Igbo has become an ember of disunity.

“In the just concluded APC presidential primary election, only Eboyi State expressed the spirit of brotherhood, Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo states’ delegates sold their votes to some none Igbo contestants,” he said.

“I am still surprised that at this stage, the Igbos have not learnt their lessons. When the time comes whosoever is complaining should know where to take his or her complaints to.”

According to him, in the just concluded All Progressives Congress presidential primary election, Ebonyi State had 39 delegates, saying that out of that figure, Engineer David Umahi got 38 votes; Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, who is also from Ebonyi State, got one vote making it 39.

Bawa said that Imo State had over 100 delegates, Rochas Okorocha got zero, Emeka Nwajiuba got only 1 vote, adding that the delegates simply voted for Bola Tinubu of the Yoruba extraction.

“Anambra State had about 100 delegates, Ikeobasi Mokelu from Anambra got zero vote. Simply they went to Tinubu and Amaechi. They didn’t vote for a South Eastern aspirant. Abia State had about 100 delegates. They didn’t vote for a Southeastern aspirant.

“They voted for Senator Dr Ahmed Lawan of the Northeast. Enugu State had about 50 delegates. They didn’t vote for a Southeastern aspirant. They shared their votes between Tinubu and Amaechi.

“Tomorrow, the South easterners will be chanting the song of marginalisation when it’s clear that apart from Ebonyi State, other South East States are a sellout in the struggle to have Southeastern persons grabbing presidential tickets of major political parties in Nigeria.

“This they replicated in the presidential primary of the PDP. Only Ebonyi State delegates delivered a South easterner, Senator Pius Anyim with 100 percent,” he said.

“Anambra, Enugu, Abia and Imo states sold theirs. It’s important that people of the Southeast who aren’t into politics note this. When we talk about the state that has the interest of the Igbo at heart politically, only Ebonyi State comes to mind.

“With this kind of mentality by the other four Southeastern States, the Igbo man doesn’t stand a chance into the Aso Rock.

“Today, these sections are almost in a state of impassability. I hope Igbo people are taking a record of this.

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“Igbo’s are the ones marginalising themselves and when the judgement comes to fore, Ebonyi State would be excluded from the statistics of the Southeast States that are mercantile in politics and anti Igbo political movement and philosophy.”

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Tinubu Sends Ex-INEC Chair, Former Oyo First Lady, 30 Additional Ambassadorial Nominees To Senate

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3 hours ago

November 29, 2025

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President Bola Tinubu has forwarded 32 additional ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, just days after submitting an initial batch of three names.

In two separate letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President urged the upper chamber to consider and swiftly confirm 15 career diplomats and 17 non-career nominees.

The list includes four women among the career nominees and six women among the non-career nominees.

Prominent names on the non-career list include Barrister Ogbonnaya Kalu from Abia State; former presidential aide, Reno Omokri (Delta); former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud Yakubu; former Ekiti First Lady, Erelu Angela Adebayo; and former Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Others are former Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Tasiu Musa Maigari; former Plateau State Commissioner, Yakubu N. Gambo; and former Deputy Executive Secretary of UBEC, Yakubu K. Musa.

Also nominated are former Plateau senator, Prof. Nora Ladi Daduut; former Lagos Deputy Governor, Otunba Femi Pedro; former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode; and Barrister Nkechi Linda Ufochukwu from Anambra State.

Additional nominees include former Oyo First Lady, Fatima Florence Ajimobi; former Lagos Commissioner, Lola Akande; former Adamawa senator, Grace Bent; former Abia governor, Victor Okezie Ikpeazu; Senator Jimoh Ibrahim of Ondo State; and former envoy to the Holy See, Ambassador Paul Oga Adikwu (Benue).

The career ambassadorial nominees are Enebechi Monica Okwuchukwu (Abia), Yakubu Nyaku Danladi (Taraba), Miamuna Ibrahim Besto (Adamawa), Musa Musa Abubakar (Kebbi), Syndoph Paebi Endoni (Bayelsa), Chima Geoffrey Lioma David (Ebonyi), and Mopelola Adeola-Ibrahim (Ogun).

Others include Abimbola Samuel Reuben (Ondo), Yvonne Ehinosen Odumah (Edo), Hamza Mohammed Salau (Niger), Ambassador Shehu Barde (Katsina), Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Monguno (Borno), Ambassador Muhammad Saidu Dahiru (Kaduna), Ambassador Olatunji Ahmed Sulu Gambari (Kwara), and Ambassador Wahab Adekola Akande (Osun).

The new nominees are expected to be deployed to countries with which Nigeria maintains strong and strategic diplomatic relations, including China, India, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, South Africa, and Kenya, as well as to Permanent Missions such as the United Nations, UNESCO, and the African Union.

Their specific postings will be determined after Senate confirmation.

Recall that President Tinubu, last week, forwarded three ambassadorial nominees, Ambassador Ayodele Oke (Oyo), Ambassador Amin Mohammed Dalhatu (Jigawa), and retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are (Ogun), who are being considered for postings to the UK, USA, or France.

President Tinubu said additional ambassadorial nominations will be announced in due course.

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Soludo Visits Tinubu, Goes Into Closed Door Session With President

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1 day ago

November 28, 2025

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Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, on Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the President, Bola Tinubu, GCFR at the State House.

Report by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Soludo, Mr Chris Aburime stated that President Tinubu received the Anambra State Governor with excitement, describing him as his long standing friend of over 22 years.

Aburime said, “The President used the occasion to further congratulate Governor Soludo on his landslide victory in the just concluded Anambra gubernatorial election.

“Recall that President Tinubu had earlier issued a congratulatory message to Governor Soludo immediately the governorship election was concluded.”

Governor Soludo was declared winner with 73% of the votes cast by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Other details of the meeting were, however, not disclosed as the press Secretary told DAILY POST that both men went into a closed door meeting after the reception.

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2027: I Will Resign If Tinubu Loses In Edo – Governor Okpebholo

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1 day ago

November 28, 2025

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Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholor has vowed that President Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential election in Edo State.

Okpebholor in an interview captured in a viral video vowed to resign if the outcome of the 2027 election does not favour the president in Edo State.

According to him, the entire people in Edo State are ready to vote for the president, citing projects that his (Okpebholor) administration executed since the All Progressives Congress, APC took over the state.

He claimed that there is no opposition in the state, stressing that everyone is supporting the ruling party ahead of the 2027 elections.

He said, “There is no opposition here in Edo everybody is for Asiwaju in this state.

“Tinubu is more popular than me in Edo state. If he doesn’t win the presidential election in Edo in 2027, I will resign.”