The apex Igbo youth body, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has insisted that a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction remained the key to unlock the nation’s potential to its fullest.

The group pointed out that the 2023 Presidency stands as the most justified Nigeria Project, that is more realisable.

OYC, in a statement signed by the President General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro and Secretary, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike and obtained by newsmen on Sunday in Umuahia, further stated that Igbos will favour the North and other parts of the country because Igbos are in all the 774 local councils in the country.

It berated the statement by the Arewa Youths president, Comrade Yerima Shettima, in a recent interview as a hate speech.

According to Ohanaeze youths, promoting ethnic domination by saying a Northerner will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 will fuel ethnic crisis, instability, political crisis and corruption in governance.

The statement reads in part: “In a secular nation like ours, pursuing obviously unnatural and unhealthy agenda will threaten the unity of the country, and we urge ACYF President to tread cautiously with his promotion of a Northerner succeeding Buhari in 2023. Nigeria needs a radical departure and we want to try Igbo ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit, indomitable vigour in governance in 2023.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide will engage all ethnic nationality groups on consultative meetings including Arewa Consultative Youths Forum, from January 2020 regarding the 2023 Igbo Presidency project, and other mutual issues, dialogue and building bridges across the Niger remains the potent force to engage each other through moral persuasion and building alliances across the country.”

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2019/12/29/2023-presidency-ohanaeze-slams-arewa-youth-leader-yerima-shettima/

Say na una turn to eat una share.

This guy is giving these people grey hair.

who be igbo connect for president?

I thought Igbo youth have finalized on slavery to ATIKU or any other hausa Fulani Muslim in 2019 to spite YORUBAS. Unintelligent people


No one will take onaheze serious untill they come out to publicly condemn IPOB activities and apologize for there youth outburst and insults on other tribes.especially those one made by their stupid son nnamdi kanu

One of the things that will hinder Igbo Presidency is their hate filled campaign and propaganda towards other tribes in Nigeria. You can't hate me and expect me to support ur whatever ambition. God 4bid!

Igbos make we get sense play politics for once..It is meant to be a north against north or north against west come 2023.

Charmingrascal:
One of the things that will hinder Igbo Presidency is their hate filled campaign and propaganda towards other tribes in Nigeria. You can't hate me and expect me to support ur whatever ambition. God 4bid!

How do ibos hate other tribes? Fact is ndibo are the most egalitarian of all tribes. Look at orji kalu. When he was convicted, abia people supported it, because he was guilty and stole their money. If it was another tribe, they would have been crying

Charmingrascal:
One of the things that will hinder Igbo Presidency is their hate filled campaign and propaganda towards other tribes in Nigeria. You can't hate me and expect me to support ur whatever ambition. God 4bid!

What hate filled campaign... I have studied most of their assertions and yes they may not have the right method of conversation for different moods but those assertions are mostly laced with 100% truth.