This is from a 2003 Article by
m.allafrica.com/stories/200301210288.html/
— FORMER Senate President and Vice
Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Chuba Okadigbo
says his acceptance to be General
Muhammadu Buhari's running mate is the
shortest way the Igbo can produce a Nigerian
president.
Okadigbo who arrived Enugu
weekend to commence his campaign tour of
the South East said his acceptance to run
was the shortest road to the presidency for
Ndigbo in the right of the reality on the
ground. If Obasanjo/Atiku continue by
winning this election in the event of that
hypothetical absurdity, it will mean eight
years of Obasanjo, eight years of the
presidency in the South, so that when it goes
to the North, there will be another eight years
and Igbo people will have been without the
presidency for sixteen (16) years," he said.
". Under the arrangement of the ANPP power
will shift back to the North, and in four years
time, it will come back here (South East),
therefore, this ticket is the fastest and
shortest way to presidential power for
somebody from this part (South East) of the
country in four years", he added.
Fielding
questions from journalists as to whether his
candidature would not jeopardise the
chances of other Igbos in the presidential
contest, Okadigbo said: "I sought to be the
president of Nigeria of Igbo extraction and
will want the people of Nigeria, which
includes Ndigbo to think accordingly and
more accordingly.
it is not a matter of winning all the votes in
Oba. It is a matter of winning across the
land. That is the political arithematic and I
do not see the possibility of these political
parties producing the next president." He
would not ignore anybody as he promised to
harmonise the various interests and advise
them privately based on the same political
arithematic.
Okadigbo described as irrational
and cheap blackmail the insinuation in some
quarters that the Buhari/Okadigbo ticket
would islamize the country.
"I consider that fear irrational. The thinking
that Christians will automatically collapse
because of Buhari is nonsensical. I remain a
Christian and everybody who so wish.
Religion is a matter of personal conviction
not a matter of government and the
constitution of Nigeria does not empower
anybody, president and whatever to convert
the country into his personal religion. The
constitution says that Nigeria is a secular
state," Okadigbo said.

Source : m.allafrica.com/stories/200301210288.html/

.

Source www.allafrica.com/stories/200301210288.html/

The man was his running mate, what did you expect him to say?

Then he mysteriously kicked the bucket shortly after that. All he said was in his political interest, even el-rufai once castigated his present APC oga.