Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Tuesday threw his weight behind the Southeast region to produce the next president of the country.
Obasanjo, who declared that his submissions were his personal view, stated that the problem of justice, marginalisation has been a major source of conflicts between ethnic and regional divisions in the country.
While speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State when the leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ogun State visited him, Obasanjo said it was part of what he resolved to do as a just and fair country that made him work for the emergence of a South-south president in 2009.
He said:
“But irrespective of the thinking of the people ahead of 2019, I personally think that South-east should have a go at the presidency too.”
He, therefore, said in the interest of justice and fairness, Ogun west senatorial district in Ogun state should be given the slot to produce the next governor of the state.
According to him, the same is happening here. If Ijebu and Egba have produced the governor, it is only fair and just to allow the Yewa or Ogun West to also produce the governor. Or else, one day, they will also stand up and take up arms against this injustice against them. That is my personal position on this.
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