“Somebody made an observation that I was not patronising the Igbo from the South East. I told him that when I won the election, I studied the amount of votes I got from all the geopolitical zones.
“I said I got 198,000 from the whole of the South
East, which virtually any local government can give me. But I appointed
ministers of foreign affairs, labour, industries, and investment, mines and
tech; these four; I never knew them from Adam. Ministers of States from seven
states of the north are under these ministers. How fair do you want me to be?”