Former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has said it is the right of anyone in the Southern part of Nigeria to aspire to become the president of the country, ditching claims in some quarters that the South-East should succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
Osoba, who was a guest on ARISE News, said nobody from the South-East has approached him as a major stakeholder of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to lobby for the country’s number one position, painting a veiled picture of unseriousness on the part of South-Eastners to clinch the number one position of Nigeria.
He said: “As far as I am concerned nobody, and I say it categorically, has told me that the Igbo or the easterner wants to run for the presidency, all I read are on the pages of the newspaper.