Pat Utomi: I won’t decline if south-east wants me to contest presidency

Pat Utomi, a professor of political economy, says he “would have no problem” if the south-east tips him to run for the presidency in 2023.

With the 2023 general election fast approaching, many observers and stakeholders have been advocating for the presidency to be zoned to the south-east region for, what a few of them described as, “equity, fairness and justice”.In a chat with Arise TV on Saturday, Utomi said he’d not hesitate to run for the seat if the people of the south-east deem him fit to represent them.

“If people come to me and say, ‘Look! We have looked at your background. We have looked at your whole life of service, and we think you are the candidate that the Igbo nation needs to offer to Nigeria, I would have no problem with that. But, am I driven by the very fact of position?” he said. “Look, there are people who have been President in Nigeria, who if you give me their place in history; I would rather never have held any office in Nigeria than be what history would remember them as. So, the fact of office and power has very little attraction to me as a person, but service to transform the lives of people matter to me.

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