The Presidency also said the South-East people are integral part of the country and would be accorded appropriate place in the scheme of things.
Speaking to newsmen after a meeting between President Buhari and the South-East governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said the visit was remarkable and had corrected the impression that the Federal Government was not doing anything for the people of the zone.
According to him, “we received a very high-powered delegation today (yesterday) and I think it is a remarkable visit because they came essentially to thank Mr. President over the major activities that have taken place in the South-East.”
On whether President Buhari solicited the votes of the South-East at the meeting, the SGF said: “This obviously might not be the most appropriate time.
“You remember there was a programme in the South-East where Mr. President asked me to represent him and I threw the kite by telling the south-eastern states that their quickest and easiest means to the presidency is to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term.
“Meaning that they can short-circuit the period in terms of only having him there for another four years and whatever they do in 2019 will determine what will happen thereafter, because politics is a game of numbers and it is like a cooperative society.”
Meanwhile, Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, had led South-East governors to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The delegation was on a thank-you visit to the President for the award of the second Niger Bridge and some other projects in the zone and also to complain about the award of the rail project in the zone while the rail project in the Western corridor had been awarded.
But President Buhari promised that all the projects in the zone will be funded and that the seven months delay in the passage of the budget would not affect the projects.
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