2027: Ex-IPAC chief projects what Tinubu will face from South East, South South

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Chukwudi Ezeobika, a former National Legal Adviser for the Inter Party Advisory Council of Nigeria (IPAC), has stated that during the general elections in 2027, the people of the South East, South South, and other regions will not back President Bola Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He based his viewpoint on what he called the current administration’s political intolerance, bigotry, and parochialism.

Ezeobika said Tinubu, having emerged as the President “amidst doubts and unresolved moral questions as to the credibility of a partisan electoral process” by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, “has once again failed to jettison the unpatriotic, perfidious and deeply prejudiced behaviour of his predecessor in office in the way and manner he runs his government.”

He also added in a statement issued on Sunday that the President “has once again demonstrated that political inntolerance, bigotry and parochialism have become deeply rooted and fully entrenched as a well established ideology and inherent policy of the APC.

“The marginalisation and or exclusion of many ethnic nationalities who form an integral part of the Nigeria nation in various federal appointments shows, to some extent, the impunity and disdain with which President Bola Tinubu builds tensions across the nation and creates disaffection and hatred amongst Nigerians,” he stated.

Ezeobika, a former candidate for the Anambra South Senatorial District in 2018, added that the APC government led by Tinubu has not shown the political will to restore lasting peace in the region, as evidenced by its refusal to release the detained leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally, in response to calls from prominent South East stakeholders and eminent jurists to end the region’s ongoing unrest.

He said: “The President has, however, failed to understand that such costly inaction forecloses his chances of ever getting the needed political support within the region, in his current bid to have himself re-elected.

“This singular inaction remains the main and only reason why his defeat in the whole of the South East and South South will be absolute, unalloyed and damning as the people from these regions will use every means necessary to defend their votes.

“Having nursed and superintended over a political party that has brought untold hardships, avoidable deaths and economic strangulation to a nation once projected as the best economy in Africa, the damaging effects of the ineptitude of the current administration on the lives of Nigerian citizens remain the main reason why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is deemed unelectable in the forthcoming general elections.”

Additionally, Ezeobika claimed that the current administration has unintentionally ignored the nation’s ongoing extrajudicial executions, as well as the frequent arrests and unlawful detentions of several young people by security agencies, particularly the Department of State Services, or DSS, without a trial.

“It is indeed deeply troubling that many of these youths are languishing in detention facilities across the Federation even without any formal trials.

“This is, however, in clear violation of their fundamental rights as enshrined in Sections 34, 35, 36 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), most especially Section 36 (5) which provides that ‘Every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty,” he stated.

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