Chief Francis Eneh from Ebonyi state is a staunch member of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia state. He said the mistake the Igbo made in the 2015 general election would not be repeated in 2019.
Eneh said that the South-East in 2015 were deceived with the slogan that Goodluck Jonathan was their brother and voted for him despite the fact that he did nothing for them as their own brother.
He stated this in an interview he granted to SUN.
His words, "During the last election in the South East, we did our best, it was just that some people who did not know our mission, sabotaged our efforts, carrying unfounded propaganda that former president Goodluck Jonathan was our brother and that made people of the area to dance towards Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). They were deceived; they didn’t know that APC had a better option and a better way of reorganizing the nation more than the PDP.
"Take for instance, PDP ruled for 16 years and we are still battling with how to fix Aba-Owerri Road to Ikot Ekpene. But I remembered when President Muhammadu Buhari visited Aba during the electioneering; I asked him at Eze Isaac Ikonne’s palace what he would do for the city if he won the election. He answered that he was going to fix Federal roads in the city in the second year of his administration and before he could clock two years in office, work had started on those roads.
Asked if the South-East will vote for APC in 2019 he said, "South East during the last election I would say had no option; they were blind because they did not see the hand writing on the wall. You say your brother is the president and that you must vote for him. You did not take into cognizance what your so called brother did for you the time he was there for six years.
"We are still trying to fix the road from Enugu to Aba where I live and not to talk of the road from Aba to Port Harcourt or Bayelsa or even Akwa Ibom State. All these Federal roads were not passable and you were still clamouring and clapping for the same people who failed us.
Buhari has not even completed two years and you have seen the changes he is making in terms of rehabilitation of Federal Roads in the state. If it were to be the PDP that won the election in 2015, they would have stopped the reconstruction of the Enugu/Port Harcourt Road because the people did not vote for them, but Buhari continued it.
"Before the president will complete his first term in office, people will definitely see the difference in governance and APC will capture the South East because as I speak, some of us are already captured and Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu who is my brother and mentor in politics made that possible.
