Former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has said that President Bola Tinubu has upped the stakes on provision of infrastructure meant for good governance, noting that this was capable of guaranteeing his re-election.
Okechukwu said this on Monday while briefing members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) at Eke community in Enugu state on the meeting of the group with Tinubu recently.
According to him, President Tinubu unlike former President Goodluck Jonathan, “has upped his ante (stake) aimed at addressing infrastructural deficit and provision of vital programmes.
“These programmes included commercial agricultural mechanisation, additional 2,000 megawatts of electricity supply, and construction of 4,000 houses in the next one year.
“There is additional vocational training, education across the nooks and crannies of the country, which will on or before 2027 definitely come to fruition,” he said.
Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said that the CPC group resolved to support Tinubu and oblige him a huge chunk of Buhari’s 12 million vote-bank in the forthcoming 2027 presidential election.
He said that the subsisting national consensus was the rotation of the presidency from North to South and vice versa, adding that politicians should remain in their political parties and fix it to be progressive in nature.
“The truism is that the majority of Nigerians both partisan and non-partisan adopted the national consensus that the presidency should rotate from the south to north and vice versa.
“This is the subsisting convention instituted in 1999 by patriots, a golden milestone of the 4th Republic for equity, justice and fairness,” he said.
Okechukwu noted that instead of adopting rotation convention consensus as a pragmatic model; some political parties were in an endless blame game, with intent to bury the immutable rotation convention, “glue which unites our polarised country”.
He said that the hypothesis of those political parties is dead on arrival, while reminding them that “it failed in 2023 and that it will fail again, because President Tinubu is not President Jonathan”.