2023 EBONYI GOVERNOR PRAYS NIGERIA GETS KINDHEARTED PRESIDENT LIKE BUHARI

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has projected into the future of Nigeria, saying he is praying fervently for a kindhearted person like President Muhammadu Buhari to take over from him in 2023.

He also explained that obedience to the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) sit at home order in the South-eastern states was borne out of fear by the residents. 

Umahi, who spoke with newsmen Monday after a closed door meeting with President Buhari, said inasmuch as he believed that power rests with God, he would continue to pray for someone with the attributes of Buhari to succeed him. 

He said: "I continue to say that power rests in the hands of God. And we pray that God will also give us the next president who has a good heart like President Buhart for the good of this country. We need God's own anointing for our own anointed president for the interest and unity of this country."

Asked if the Southeast governors are considering encouraging the two major parties to produce one candidate towards the 2023 presidential election, Umahi said it was too early and distracting to talk about it now.

He said: "Well, for me, I'm very much entrenched in completing my projects. And I will look in to politics when my tenure is remaining one year, which is from May 29, 2022. And I think it is the same thing with other governors of Southeast and by extension, governors of APC."

"My position about what you ask is that our people that are in those political parties are making the efforts in selling the need for Southeast to produce the next president. But I think both the governors and Mr President should not be distracted, when the elections are done and won, the next thing should be governance. But in this country, the moment the election is completed, the next one starts and it is the masses that are being cheated. So those whose job is politics and who are not in an elected position, or appointed position have all the time and the opportunity to do this conversing. And I think that they are doing it very well."