By James Moses (9News Nigeria-Jos)
A former spokesman of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the South East, Dr Josef Onoh has stated that the region has restrained itself from the isolated hardship protests across the country because Nigeria has refused to accord the South East it’s due status as an integral part of the country, but rather imposed hardship on the region in the past 54 years.
Onoh, who presently is the chairman of the Forum of Former Members of Enugu State House of Assembly (FOF -MENHA), and a former governorship aspirant in the state, stated that the rest of the regions in the country should not expect the South East to be in the vanguard of the present discontent when those other regions feel that the South East is good enough for Nigeria leadership or any other substantial inclusive infrastructure.
Onoh spoke against the background of the former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf, who recently expressed surprise against the worsening economic hardship.
Onoh in his reply to Yusuf, said: “The South East is uncharacteristically quite because since after the civil war, the South East has continued to be dealt with extreme hardship and suffered in the midst of plenty while other regions basked in the euphoria of riches and power with a section of the regions feeling very entitled”.
-9News Nigeria.
