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We are practicing partisan democracy, not tribal democracy – Imo Governor

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Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, says the emergence of the candidates for the presidential election in 2023 should not be on a tribal basis.

While briefing State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Governor Uzodinma said “We are practicing partisan democracy, not tribal democracy. So, the emergence of presidential candidates will come on a party-by-party basis, not tribe-by-tribe basis,”

He made the comments against the backdrop of clamours by the people of the South-East that the 2023 presidency should be zones to the region.

Speaking about zoning the next presidency to the South East, Governor Uzodinma believes that would only be determined by the leadership of various political parties.

According to him, the right thing to do is not to cause tension with the calls for zoning of the office of the president but to allow the internal mechanisms of the political groups make the best decision.

“If there are some other internal factors that will form part of the considerations for parties taking decisions, of course, that will be entirely the job of the leadership of those political parties and I think that is the right thing to do,” the governor said.

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