A former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
Commission, NERC, Sam Amadi, has stirred fresh debate over the South-East’s
chances of producing Nigeria’s president, saying the region may never attain
the position.
Amadi, writing on X on Friday, said the South-East might
have no realistic path to the presidency in 2027, 2031 or even 2035.
He advised that the region should instead focus on economic
growth and strengthening its influence across Nigeria and globally.
“May be South-East has no chance at all, whether in 2027,
2031 or 2035 , just as Jews never have in the US. We can focus on building
South-East and prospering across Nigeria and the world,” he wrote.
The policy expert also questioned the value of the Nigerian
presidency, describing it as an avenue for personal enrichment.
“By the way, what has been the worth of Nigerian presidency?
Just another opportunity for some people to steal a varnishing wealth as they
are doing now,” Amadi added.
Amadi’s comments came in response to an earlier post by X
user, Demola Olarewaju, who argued that the South-East has never had a clear
pathway to the Presidency since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
Olaewaju noted that while the South-West has produced
presidents through both nationalist and regional political strategies, the
South-South only got an opportunity by “chance or fate,” leaving the South-East
without similar prospects.
“Not my place to say, and I won’t. I’ll just add that a
Yoruba has two pathways to Presidency in Nigeria since 1999:
“You can be a nationalist like Obasanjo and win; you can
still be an ethnocentrist like Tinubu and win.
“South-South got a chance by mistake/fate, South-East has
never,” Olarewaju wrote.
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