Nigeria needs a president who sees All part of the country as his own — Ekweremadu

DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu,

yesterday, told the bitter quest for the

presidency by the various ethnic extractions of

the country would continue till  Nigeria has a

President who sees all part of the country

as his or her constituencies. As indicated by him, a President who is 

focused on rejoining what he depicted as a 

profoundly spellbound country and stir the mammoth 

in all parts thereof will end the repeating cries 

of underestimation among different ethnic 

gatherings of the nation, including that the 

President Nigeria needs should guarantee that 

individuals are not abused on grounds of their 

constituent decisions or where they originate from. 

Ekweremadu talked in Abuja at general society 

introduction of the book, "The Audacity of 

Control and the Nigeria Project: Exclusion of 

the South East in Nigeria's Power Politics and 

the Specter of Biafra" wrote by Godwin 

Udibe and Law Mefor. 

The delegate Senate President, who was 

spoken to by Hon. Dennis Amadi, 

speaking to Ezeagu/Udi of Enugu state in the 

Place of Representatives, said to address 

Igbo underestimation, there must be valid 

rebuilding and federalism on the grounds that if there 

had been a typical government course of action, the 

clamor over underestimation by Ndigbo 

also, different parts of Nigeria would not have 

emerged. 

Focusing on that underestimation of the Igbo is 

genuine, he stated, "the cross of Ndigbo in the 

Nigerian state is overwhelming; Igbo underestimation is 

genuine; and as the creators contend, now verges on 

think prohibition." 

Ekweremadu 

Ekweremadu said the most exceedingly bad inconveniences 

endured by Ndigbo are not quite recently those forced 

by basic lopsided characteristics, for example, less 

number of states and nearby governments or the 

lesser income collections, political 

portrayal, government jobs and 

political arrangements emerging from the 

uneven characters and determined unfairness. 

"The best underestimation and 

burden endured by Ndigbo is the determined 

disguising and disposing of genuine federalism, 

which the establishing fathers of Nigeria embraced 

with a specific end goal to live respectively as one country in which 

nobody is persecuted and each segment part 

can flourish. This ungainly type of 

federalism has boxed Ndigbo to a tight corner 

what's more, confined their possibilities and inventiveness. 

"It would be reviewed that in the First Republic, 

the outdated Eastern Region was evaluated the 

quickest developing economy in Africa. At that 

time, oil had not begun streaming in business 

amount in the Region. In any case, the 

Eastern Region and in addition alternate areas 

recorded uncommon but to be 

unequaled advancement. 

"The State of California alone, in the USA, is 

one of the biggest economies on the planet. It 

advises us that in a genuine government state, Ndigbo 

would have been the most improbable individuals to 

cry about underestimation since they have 

what it brings to contend with the created 

economies. 

"Tragically, with regards to Nigeria's federalism, 

Ndigbo resemble a shackled lion. They have 

plenteous mineral assets however can't abuse 

them since minerals are vested in the 

Central Government in a course of action that 

loots Peter to pay Paul. Ndigbo can't 

freely secure their domains to make 

them more secure for residents and more appealing to 

financial specialists in light of the fact that policing was concentrated 

since 1966. 

"While Igbo people group and open energetic 

people assemble schools, streets, healing centers, and 

other financial foundation, the South 

East states can't assemble certain framework 

since just the Federal Government has the 

sacred forces to construct them. 

"At the end of the day, Ndigbo are a people who have 

what it takes to fly however are sentenced to 

creep since others are slithering. This is the 

catastrophe of the Nigerian venture." 

Ekweremadu, who noticed that "rebuilding is 

not an intense subject matter, but rather a political 

basic for Nigeria to make the coveted 

advance", however couldn't help contradicting the individuals who 

see the calls for rebuilding as commensurate 

to call for breaking down.