Anyim offers South East best chance for 2023 presidency | IgbereTV
By Dr. Sam Amadi

Senator Anyim Pius Anyim is Southeast best shot at the presidency. I am not sure he will make it because Southeast is not serious about Igbo presidency. I like Peter Obi and he may be one of the best materials to be a good president in Nigeria today. But he is not a great candidate in terms of the available political space and dynamics today. Elite consensus around Nigeria will not favor him. Anyim is our best chance because he has the political statutes and personality that Nigerian political dynamics can accommodate. In another politics, he may not be Southeast best chance. But in the present politics in Nigeria he is Southeast best chance.

If we are serious about Igbo presidency, we need to embrace Anyim and forget some of these daydreaming about our fanciful candidates.

18th January 2022.

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Peter Obi would make a great president if he contests and wins.When he was governor in Anambra, he handled the state's economy and finances so well,and built up a robust financial reserves.

SE should be president. It’s past over due. For equity equality and representation

Hmmmm good one

Since 1999 they have been using the south east to play ping pong, it's time to end all that rubbish...

Best candidate to contest for the presidency come 2023

Though am not one(zoo).

Lies

He is a good man, he has my support.

Make all of them getat

I'm sorry to say sir


Na Tinubu get that seat

Welcome to the competition. The more the better.

As an sfg, Niger bridge could not be completed...

Old timers.......

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Southeast is neither here nor there ,confusion everywhere.
Apc will not give the zone ticket and I will not blame pdp if they don't cos it will be too risky for people whose elders are fighting for president and a population of their youths are busy sitting at home waiting for a new country.

Great move by anyim, but PDP is yet to zone their ticket

All of Una the same thing . we need Biafra.

Absolute Nonsense.

Peter Obi is our best option.

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SE should be president. It’s past over due. For equity equality and representation

You are right

Ayim P.A is a candididate but Ipob will affect his chances of becoming the President.

Him name don disqualify am
Ayim

I'm routing for Kingsley Moghalu...

Let's chip in our bits and #HardTruths as ever.....

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 and a half 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 abuse from 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. 

tolakush92:
I'm sorry to say sir


Na Tinubu get that seat

I can stake my life savings... Tinubu won't win APC primaries.


Saying that Tinubu will have the seat is just given yourself false hope.


Someone that is being rejected by all geopolitical zones including some of his tribes men...

Maybe Ghana citizens will vote for your tinubu not Nigerians.

Anyim declaration to the Presidency under the PDP platform is a welcome development. At least he stood up to be counted when we needed statesmen to represent Ndigbo. However, he isn't the only Igbo Presidential material. We have countless Igbo sons and daughters in all political parties that will lead this country well if voted for. Whether in the PDP or APC Ndigbo must stand up to be counted. 2023 is a goal.

Vote prosperity
Vote unity and progress
Vote a Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction.

Anyim that couldn't be bold enough to express himself in the presence of Bill Clinton? Mtchew. It's Peter Obi, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Pat Utomi or nothing.