Ifeanyi Ubah, the senator representing Anambra south, has disclosed that about 80 percent of Igbo people get their wealth from President Bola Tinubu’s legacy in Lagos state.
Ubah made this revelation in Abuja after he was officially received into the group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday.
Let it be known that the Anambra senator dumped the Young Progressives Party (YPP) on Wednesday claiming irreconcilable differences as the reason for his defection.
Ubah’s defection was made formal during plenary at the upper legislative chambers Senate President Godswill Akpabio yesterday.
Ubah said Tinubu has the capacity to govern Nigeria after he was received by the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje and other officials.
He noted that Tinubu understands the agonies of Nigerians and has the capacity to provide solutions that address them.
“I want to be sincere, it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions,” Ubah said.
“Since our president has emerged and I put that challenge to each Igbo man today in Nigeria, 70 percent – 80 percent of them derive their wealth from the legacy that the president has left in Lagos.
“Our president is the politician that understands how it pains and how to console everybody. He has that capacity.
“One of the important things for me to tell our people is the appointment of Engr. Dave Umahi as the Minister of Works for the very first time, irrespective of our very low turnout of votes to him.”
Ubah said he joined APC because he wanted the south-east to align with Tinubu’s administration.
|Vanguard
