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Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by BeeBeeOoh(m): 10:47pm On Dec 30, 2021
Okezie Ikpeazu, governor of Abia, says people from the south-east understand Nigeria better than those in other regions.

Addressing reporters after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Thursday, the governor said an aspirant of Igbo extraction should be voted as president in 2023.

“I think that the south-easterners have a right to take a shot at the presidency of Nigeria and I dare say that our qualification starts from the fact that we understand and know Nigeria better than the other states of Nigeria,” he said.

“I dare say, this is my opinion. We go everywhere, we are everywhere, we invest everywhere, we are pan-Nigerian people. Today, a lot of people, on a lighter note are afraid of Sambisa. But for an Igbo man, Sambisa is a business opportunity. So, it will be preposterous of me not to add my voice to that one.

“However, the question of a Nigerian president of south-east extraction is a national question that requires negotiation, discussion and conversation with all parts of this country and I am least qualified to determine what happened in 2023.

“I also want to spend my time supporting the incumbent president to do his time and do his best while we wait for what will happen to begin to unfold. So, these are my views about the presidency.”

Ikpeazu said Nigeria’s next president should be someone who understands the country’s diversity and be able to accommodate varying interests.

“In the first place, anybody who wants to aspire to the highest post of the presidency, it doesn’t matter where you come from, must have what I regard as pan-Nigerian mentality,” he said.

“He must be somebody who has an understanding of all the contending interests and influences in this country. He must understand that we are a country of diversity with different persuasions, traditions, cultures, religions and all of these must be put in a place where you can understand and respect them.

“That individual must also be somebody who is ready to accommodate the youths of this country because turning it into a slogan the fact that youths are our leaders of the future has not served us correctly because we are drifting into an age that youths understand which many people may not understand.

“So, the person must be willing to accommodate the youth without necessarily throwing away very experienced ones. He must be able to find a labyrinth of all the interests. He must also reflect an extreme women agenda.

“Such a person must also be investor-friendly, he must be an individual who understands the nuances of economics and what is the relationship between international politics and the economy and the person must be strong enough to face up to the issue on the front burner, which is security.

“He must be able to create jobs, he must be able to deploy the kinetic device all the time, he must able to also listen and negotiate peace.”

https://www.thecable.ng/ikpeazu-igbo-deserve-shot-at-presidency-we-understand-nigeria-better/amp

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Karemarealty288(m): 10:49pm On Dec 30, 2021
This shouldn't be coming from you.........cos you are epitome of failure...

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 10:49pm On Dec 30, 2021
south east 4 president

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Abdul05: 10:51pm On Dec 30, 2021
Amazing, ibo people too, want to rule this country ba?. grin grin

But , on a serious note...

The remainders are getting worried of what an ibo man might do when he gets there.. grin

Even, despite what ikpeazu says now ,the remainder doesn't see the ibo that way... grin

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Entprys(m): 10:53pm On Dec 30, 2021
Tinubu 2023 till 2031. Ibo go sit down

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by NwaNimo1(m): 10:54pm On Dec 30, 2021
Today, a lot of people, on a lighter note are afraid of Sambisa. But for an Igbo man, Sambisa is a business opportunity

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Nobody: 10:57pm On Dec 30, 2021
Apart from Dave Umahi, every politicians from South East are failure

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Baawaa(m): 11:07pm On Dec 30, 2021
“I dare say, this is my opinion. We go everywhere, we are everywhere, we invest everywhere, we are pan-Nigerian people. Today, a lot of people, on a lighter note are afraid of Sambisa. But for an Igbo man, Sambisa is a business opportunity. So, it will be preposter us of me not to add my voice to that one.
This one will sell Nigeria.
He will see Nigeria as business as usual

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by dasparrow: 11:11pm On Dec 30, 2021
South Eastern governors like Ikpeazu want the presidency seat so that they can loot Nigeria dry like they have looted their respective states.

The Fulani oligarchy will ensure that the seat of president does not smell any southerner. Remember that they have one goal only and that goal is to islamize and fulanize the entire Nigeria. How will they achieve that if power goes back to the South?

Have you forgotten what Dr Mailafia of blessed memory warned us all about in his interview with Sahara TV? Have you forgotten what Comrade Olakunle told us in his interview with Channels TV? Some of you forget too quickly or are deliberately feigning ignorance.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by omenkaLives(m): 11:22pm On Dec 30, 2021
I don't really understand igbo leaders. Someone should please break this thing down for me.

Has anyone told ibos they don't deserve a shot or shouldn't contest for presidency?

Shebi Ikpu-azu is a member of pdp, when would he impress it upon his party to cede their ticket to ibo? Or did pdp tell ibos they can only play the role of second fiddle in a party they have sacrificed everything for?

Why do ibos allow pdp to treat them with so much hate and disdain, even though they've made it clear time and again they want nothing to do with an Islamic and almajeri people's Congress, APC?

Smh.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Rexwalters1: 11:38pm On Dec 30, 2021
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
south east 4 president
You have left Biafra alone for now, until after you have lost the election, then the crocodile tears will start again?

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by tutudesz: 11:42pm On Dec 30, 2021
Oga we can see your understanding of Abia State O! grin

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Rexwalters1: 11:42pm On Dec 30, 2021
Entprys:
Tinubu 2023 till 2031.
Ibo go sit down
Tinubu is about to be retired from politics, who the Gods want to destroy, they first make mad, the man should have learnt from the MKO saga?

Commander in Chief my foot, maybe President of Pensioners Association of Mobil Exxon Nigeria?

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Nobody: 11:48pm On Dec 30, 2021
This idiots is part of biafrans problem.He needs to be hanged in a pole in aba.What a drunkard that has failed completely as the governor of abia state.The next set of UGM will not miss you and all yours..You will rot in jail when you come down....thief

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Vistra40: 11:53pm On Dec 30, 2021
SlyDev:
Apart from Dave Umahi, every politicians from South East are failure

Ogbonnaya Onu nko? What about ken Nnamani?

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by ERockson: 11:58pm On Dec 30, 2021
Rubbish from mumu man

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by duro4chang(m): 11:59pm On Dec 30, 2021
Understander!

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Nobody: 12:07am On Dec 31, 2021
Vistra40:


Ogbonnaya Onu nko? What about ken Nnamani?

They are feather weight

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Drogunov: 2:11am On Dec 31, 2021
BeeBeeOoh:


https://www.thecable.ng/ikpeazu-igbo-deserve-shot-at-presidency-we-understand-nigeria-better/amp

See his cannibalistic mouth. People wey never understand demsef finish na dem de understand Nigeria better. Talk is so cheap in the SE.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Acecube(m): 2:13am On Dec 31, 2021
Play the game better than others and you won't have to beg for it.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by MANNABBQGRILLS: 2:19am On Dec 31, 2021
Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we are after @MANNA.


Reminiscent time.........
Truth is bitter, but we will continue to say it.


SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe.
I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary conversations with nonentities . As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu. 

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Nobody: 2:20am On Dec 31, 2021
You think Nigeria is the same thing with Alaba international abi undecided

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by jaxxy(m): 2:20am On Dec 31, 2021
None of u Igbo leaders can control ur zone or even ur states. Charity begins at home.

Rochas was doing well untill he became a power drunk clown. The rest are neither here nor there. There are sound people on the east bt they are not given the chance to serve.

Only very few are given the chance. Soludo is one. It seems only only Anambra produces good governors atleast in the south east.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by MANNABBQGRILLS: 2:21am On Dec 31, 2021
More....

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Tizu(m): 2:22am On Dec 31, 2021
BeeBeeOoh:


https://www.thecable.ng/ikpeazu-igbo-deserve-shot-at-presidency-we-understand-nigeria-better/amp


Mr Failure Okezie Ikpeazu.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Hotfreezer: 2:30am On Dec 31, 2021
This fat failure too is agitating for Presidency. It seems Igbos want to carry their failure to the national level.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Hotfreezer: 2:31am On Dec 31, 2021
Vistra40:

Ogbonnaya Onu nko? What about ken Nnamani?

How many votes did they give Apc in the last election?

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Hotfreezer: 2:32am On Dec 31, 2021
Rexwalters1:
Tinubu is about to be retired from politics, who the Gods want to destroy, they first make mad, the man should have learnt from the MKO saga?

Commander in Chief my foot, maybe President of Pensioners Association of Mobil Exxon Nigeria?

Tinubu is the next Commander in Chief of the Armed forces. There is nothing you, your father, your family, your ancestors, your village and your entire existence can do about it.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by humberjade: 2:32am On Dec 31, 2021
How much do you understand Abia State considering your gigantic failure since you became Gov.

Abeg go sidon, let performers and those who know about governance talk

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by Hotfreezer: 2:37am On Dec 31, 2021
Ikpeazu ought to be welcomed back to Umuahia with heavy slaps and knocks on his empty head. Ikuku should do that.

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Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by ebufa: 2:39am On Dec 31, 2021
Rexwalters1:
Tinubu is about to be retired from politics, who the Gods want to destroy, they first make mad, the man should have learnt from the MKO saga?

Commander in Chief my foot, maybe President of Pensioners Association of Mobil Exxon Nigeria?






lol
Re: Ikpeazu: Igbos Deserve Shot At Presidency, We Understand Nigeria Better by DEROX: 2:39am On Dec 31, 2021
which of their leaders can boldly control respect and votes in their region first grin

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