South-East Better Protected Under Buhari Regime Than 16 years of PDP Rule-APC Chieftain

By Bimbo Ogunnaike

The 2015 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Abia State,  Nyerere Anyim, has stated that the welfare of the South Easterners was now better protected under the present President Muhammadu Buhari-led  administration in the last four years than the sixteen years of the People Democratic Party (PDP) inglorious rule that almost ruined the nation’s economy.

Anyim ,who spoke during an interactive session with journalists on Sunday posited that with the high positions the South-East occupied during ex-President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, added that the region was doomed under PDP regime.

“Under PDP, the Igbo had the coordinating minister for finance, we had the Chief of Army Staff, we had the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. At one time, we had the Senate President of this country and the Speaker of House of Representatives but what did that translate to the Igbo nation? What was the impact of these big names.

Anyim noted that in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, President Buhari has boosted industrialization by constructing a power station in Ariaria international market to give them constant power supply and other interventions the federal government has made to give the region a sense of belonging.

The APC chieftain, castigated Igbo style of politics and penchant for trying to put its eggs in one basket, saying the attitude has alienated the South-East zone from the nation’s decision-making tables.