The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has predicted that the southeast region would vote massively for the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election.
Speaking on Saturday during the Ohanivo 2025 New Yam Festival in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi, Umahi declared that the outcome of the 2023 presidential election in which Peter Obi of the Labour Party garnered huge votes from the region was a mistake.
He stated that the outcome of the 2027 elections would be different, dismissing the influence of the Peter Obi-led OBIdient Movement in the region.
Naijaonpoint reports that the Minister lamented that the southeast had been marginalized for several years, leading to the belief that the Obidient movement is dominant in the region, but things have changed with the coming on board of President Tinubu, and the region’s allegiance and that of Ebonyi State in particular, is to the central government now.
“We are not OBIdient people. We have been so marginalised that we are no longer OBIdient. No, we are not.
“But it is the man that has given us a sense of belonging, President Bola Tinubu. Let it not be that we are from Ebonyi State and they are saying this state belongs to us. There is no OBIdient person in Ebonyi,” Umahi said.
The former Ebonyi governor called on the people of the southeast to reciprocate the goodwill demonstrated by President Tinubu to the region by voting for him in large numbers in the 2027 elections.
“What we have to do is to record the good things that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done for South-East and Ebonyi State when the time comes. We will not be deceived again because the last election was a mistake, but we have come to be wiser. I will not finish naming all that the President is doing for us,” Umahi added.
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