Th former legal Adviser of inter party Advisory Council (IPAC),Chukwudi Ezeobika has given reasons why Tinubu will lose votes in South East and South South in the next general election.
He predicated his opinion on what he described as the political intolerance, bigotry and parochialism of the present administration.
Ezeobika said Tinubu, having emerged as the President “amidst doubts and unresolved moral questions as to the credibility of a partisan electoral process” by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, “has once again failed to jettison the unpatriotic, perfidious and deeply prejudiced behaviour of his predecessor in office in the way and manner he runs his government.”
He also added in a statement issued on Sunday that the President “has once again demonstrated that political inntolerance, bigotry and parochialism have become deeply rooted and fully entrenched as a well established ideology and inherent policy of the APC.
“The marginalisation and or exclusion of many ethnic nationalities who form an integral part of the Nigeria nation in various federal appointments shows, to some extent, the impunity and disdain with which President Bola Tinubu builds tensions across the nation and creates disaffection and hatred amongst Nigerians,” he stated.
Ezeobika, who was a former candidate for Anambra South Senatorial District in 2018, further noted that the failure of the Tinubu-led APC government to heed the calls of eminent jurists and major stakeholders from the South East to put an end to the protracted unrest in the region, by releasing the detained leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally, goes to show that the political will to restore lasting peace within the region, is not a viable consideration or priority for his government.
He said: “The President has, however, failed to understand that such costly inaction forecloses his chances of ever getting the needed political support within the region, in his current bid to have himself re-elected.
“This singular inaction remains the main and only reason why his defeat in the whole of the South East and South South will be absolute, unalloyed and damning as the people from these regions will use every means necessary to defend their votes.
“Having nursed and superintended over a political party that has brought untold hardships, avoidable deaths and economic strangulation to a nation once projected as the best economy in Africa, the damaging effects of the ineptitude of the current administration on the lives of Nigerian citizens remain the main reason why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is deemed unelectable in the forthcoming general elections.”
Ezeobika also alleged that the present administration has unwittingly failed to address persistent extra judicial killings across the country and numerous arrests, illegal detentions of many youths by security agencies most especially by the Department of State Services, DSS without trial.
“It is indeed deeply troubling that many of these youths are languishing in detention facilities across the Federation even without any formal trials.
“This is, however, in clear violation of their fundamental rights as enshrined in Sections 34, 35, 36 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
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