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The Era of ‘Bambiala Politics’ in SE Must End Now !!! I must use this medium to respectfully express my utmost disappointment with Prof Charles political strategy. In a statement today, Prof rationalise his commitment to support the failed president @officialABAT reelection with arguments that falls flat on its own dead weight First, to express concern over the emotional politics attributed to our regional support for the candidacy of @PeterObi and the need for political alignment at the center, Prof wrongly cited the politics of Zik and Ekwueme, the two highest political achievers from the East This is a wrong citation because Zik and Ekwueme did not play a politics of the center in the same way Prof is inferring. These men got to the center by forging credible political alliance that won power at the center and formed a government. The approach Prof employs today is rather different; be supportive of the current holders of power at the center, and hope that they will be magnanimous enough to grant access or transfer this power out of their sheer goodwill I understand that there is no singular approach to skin a cat, however, the problem with this particular approach employed by @CCSoludo today is that it has been applied before by a certain Gov Rochas and Gov Umahi who supported other APC admin at the center and at the end; did we get railways or gas pipelines in the East as the outcome? For further context, the champions of this formula Prof applies today are still in APC begging for power and access to the center, hence why Prof must not jump on the train of this losing political formula to join the SE begging queue in APC. It is a disaster that will ultimately end in tears On the other side of the bambiala politics is Peter Obi who seemed like he gets the winning political philosophy of Zik and Ekweme by forging an alliance with the north in ADC, but somehow bungled it. Ashamedly, Peter resorted to begging for the presidential ticket rather than fight for it like the political lions Zik and Ekwueme would have done, and ended up moving to a fringe third-wheel party that assented to his ticket-begging and granted it to him even without any winning chance So my point here Prof is, if we are interested to be participants of power at the center, then we must build intentionally rather than beg every 4-years cycle. Case in point is the current president Tinubu who tried to align with the PDP power at the center but felt his region wasn’t getting enough as it should. Hence, rather than keep begging, he built by forging political alliances that mainstreamed his region as a major player at the center and the rest is history That said, the politics you propose that our region play today is not novel and it is not working. Today, Mbah is begging, Otti is begging, Uzodinma is begging, Nwifuru is begging, and you too seem to be advocating for the same bambiala politics. If you must be the next political leader from the SE, then you must do better, except your regular caution about our style of politics were mere rhetorics, but I hope not That said, I advise you think big, like Ekwueme, Zik and Tinubu had done. Do the rigour to forge a mainstream political alliance, build and win power at the center, rather than the rag-tag lazy approach of aligning with owners of power at the center or beg for ticket in any fringe political party willing to offer, and hope crumbs and goodies fall to us as compensation In conclusion, we have a solid regional bloc to be major stakeholders in a mainstream political party. APC has shown no appetite to allow SE be a major power bloc within the party and we can’t beg our way through it. We must forge our own path, and if you must be that new North Star to lead the charge, then you must change your approach by quitting this bambiala politics Finally, the ADC is a virgin and fertile ground with all required ingredients to commence this SE political rebirth and rebuilding, and we must key in now!