■ Groups say South East won’t accept VP

The most topical and popular issue in South East today is the actualization of a Nigerian President from the region. Though some people believe that restructuring of the federation is what the Igbo needs at the moment, there are those clamouring for Nigerian President of Igbo extraction. To this end, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has formed a non-partisan political action committee to push for the realization of the lofty dream.

Many Igbo groups and leaders, including Igbo World Assemby (IWA), Nzuko Umunna, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) as well as a former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, have recently spoken in support of President of South East extraction in 2023

Announcing the setting up of the committee in Enugu on Wednesday, President General of Ohanaeze, George Obiozor, said it would deploy persuasion in reaching out to key political actors across the country as well as other critical stakeholders and leaders.

According to him, the “persuasion team would recognise those that are critical in Nigeria including our own people. They will also talk to our people here that are aspiring for the Presidency. The team is nonpartisan and non-political. We will try to reach everybody on the need for the South East to produce the next president.” He argued that the basis for any viable democracy, especially in a diverse and complex country such as Nigeria, rests on fair and even sharing of power.

He lamented that the twin-devil of power sharing and social justice has held Nigeria back and is about leading to its dismemberment. He restated that the Igbo were not secessionists or separatists, adding that they were prepared and deserved the presidency because it is politically defensible and morally justifiable.

The Ohanaeze leader declared that anybody working against the emergence of Igbo president does not wish Nigeria well because, according to him, only the Igbo can save the country at this critical period. He stated that the current series of national crisis facing the country were enough to bring it to its knees.

Saturday Sun investigation shows that Obiozor and the body he represents are not alone in this thinking. Former Governor of Enugu State, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo said that the South East has waited for close to 60 years for justice to be done in this area. He pointed out that the Igbo have supported other regions in the past and deserved all the backing and cooperation of other Nigerians.

He appeared on a national television on Thursday, to beg other Nigerians to forgive Igbo for any ‘sin’ they might have committed and give the prople a chance at the Presidency. He asked: “What has the South East actually done to merit all of these? Is it that we lack people that can rule Nigeria or is there a crime we’ve committed that this punishment is not yet over? I think our countrymen should have a conscience. And I believe that this country has a conscience.”

Alluding to the redressing of the injustice meted out to the Yorubas on the June 12 Presidential Election, he said: “Yes, there was injustice in June 12. The next opportunities that came up after Abacha suspended June 12, and when he left office, at the next election, justice was done to the people of South West. PDP nominated Olusegun Obasanjo. Even though Ogbonnaya Onu won the nomination in the opposition party, he had to yield to Olu Falae. This country has a conscience. We don’t know why that conscience takes a flight when it comes to the South East. We think that we need that conscience to wake up and we need all right-thinking people of Nigeria who want to heal the wounds of yesterday, who want us to march together in unity and develop our country, to yield this position at this time in all parties to the South East.”

Speaking similarly, Chairman of Igbo World Assembly, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze noted that the Igbo have demonstrated the highest virtues of patriotism and genuine nationalistic propensities in the history of Nigeria, from Nnamdi Azikiwe to the present.

Addressing the Nigerian Inter-Ethnic Nationalities Dialogue on Presidency of Igbo extraction in 2023, he noted that by history and character, what defines Ndigbo is friendliness and peaceful coexistence with others regardless of tribe, religion or race. Ndigbo, he noted, are market people, travellers, entrepreneurs or businessmen.

He argued that all the regions of Nigeria had produced Presidents except the South East, stating that it is now the turn of the region to provide good leadership for the good of all Nigerians so as to move the country in a positive direction. He raised the alarm of plots by some presidential aspirants to thwart the aspiration of the South East by getting Vice President from the Southern part of the country. He said that the South East was poised for the position of president and nothing less, adding that any betrayal would be against the national interest.

Speaking in the same vein, South East youths vowed to move against anybody from the zone that is angling for the position of Vice President in 2023. According to President General, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), Goodluck Ibem, the zone will not accept the position of vice president. “We want one of our own to be elected President in 2023,” he said. “Nothing more, nothing less. Ndigbo has worked hard towards the development of Nigeria and deserves to be supported to occupy the No. 1 seat in the country.”

The group commended ohaneze ndigbo for forming political action committee chaired by its president, Obiozor with its secretary general, Amb. Okey Emuchay as secretary. He pleaded with the committee to ensure that those to be selected as members are people of high integrity, patriotism, proven track record and wide political contacts across the country. He also asked it to stand firm and work assiduously to ensure that South East geopolitical zone is supported by other zones to produce the President of Nigeria in 2023.

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I'm one of the enemies... If you Ibos are not contended with what Nigeria is offering to the extent of wanting to contest the Presidency with the Yoruba, then we should burn down this accursed British cage.

Obiozor and Ohaneze are doing great job.. they should sustain this tempo .. who knows ..

.. till then

Power returns North

You want to team up with your Fulani partners to undermine the the greatness of the Yoruba race just like your fathers right? The present generation of Yoruba will not tolerate that. Either we rule or we break up this British cage and let's see how far you can go.

Asgard73:
Obiozor and Ohaneze are doing great job.. they should sustain this tempo .. who knows ..

.. till then

Power returns North

TheCrusader14:
You want to team up with your Fulani partners to undermine the the greatness of the Yoruba race just like your fathers right? The present generation of Yoruba will not tolerate that. Either we rule or we break up this British cage and let's see how far you can go.

Thank God you be yoruba.. una matter Na crackers

Carry megaphone.

All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose. God bless Nigeria forever.
Please vote for Asiwaju Tinubu. Asiwaju Tinubu is a brilliant visionary leader and consistent Nigerian patriot to the core.

Ggh

People change...

Asgard73:


Thank God you be yoruba.. una matter Na crackers

One Nigeria means Igbos are next to the Presidency.

All these attempted rephrasing of Constitutional documents won't work.

PDP Constitution said there must be zoning.

South is next, and within the South, next is the South-East.


Peace and progress.

APC and PDP are going Southeast in 2023.

Nothing for Tinubu and his urchins

2023 is d year of karma for igbos.


Them go collect receipt of everything dem don do,I don't have any problem with APC or pdp producing d president so far there's no touch of igbo.

I am only voting against any party that field igbo as President or vp.

Even any candidate wey igbo support even if na my brother I go vote against am.

They need to know that no b only them get monopoly of madness

Lol.

I don’t take these clowns serious. Even in 2006 when all the SE governors were going around shouting the presidency to be zoned to their zone, no one took them serious let alone toothless Ohaneze.

Red cap clowns again!



-Osu amaka

Yes, anyone who is against Ibo presidency is an enemy of Nigeria

TheCrusader14:
I'm one of the enemies... If you Ibos are not contended with what Nigeria is offering to the extent of wanting to contest the Presidency with the Yoruba, then we should burn down this accursed British cage.

you even recognize Nigeria as an accursed British cage.
I hope you don't get yourself burnt.

Asgard73:


Thank God you be yoruba.. una matter Na crackers

He is not Yoruba, he is most likely an aboki or aboki agent ( middle belters ).

chai....

what type of desperation is this....??

Bounceboune7:
2023 is d year of karma for igbos.


Them go collect receipt of everything dem don do,I don't have any problem with APC or pdp producing d president so far there's no touch of igbo.

I am only voting against any party that field igbo as President or vp.

Even any candidate wey igbo support even if na my brother I go vote against am.

They need to know that no b only them get monopoly of madness

they will learn the hard way to control their mouths....

It's just a matter of time...

TheCrusader14:
I'm one of the enemies... If you Ibos are not contended with what Nigeria is offering to the extent of wanting to contest the Presidency with the Yoruba, then we should burn down this accursed British cage.

If you burn down the country , where will your family run to?

Kai, can some one summaries this write up?

How does your self inflicted delusions and injuries concern us you are always against the spirit of unity fairness and reasoning, you are either killing, bickering or throwing tantrum everywhere, you hypocrisy is at the peak

Bounceboune7:
2023 is d year of karma for igbos.


Them go collect receipt of everything dem don do,I don't have any problem with APC or pdp producing d president so far there's no touch of igbo.

I am only voting against any party that field igbo as President or vp.

Even any candidate wey igbo support even if na my brother I go vote against am.

They need to know that no b only them get monopoly of madness

Na one vote you get to cast so stop making empty threat

You can’t sow hate and expect love

The Igbo nation should focus on the Biafra struggle and shun politics

Cos the very bitter truth is that, A IGBO MAN OR WOMAN CAN NEVER RULE NIGERIA.

All these self appointed dunceheads efulefus called Ohananeze should please know that Nigeria is long an expired product that no sane Igbo man should be interested obsessed in ruling because nothing meaningful will ever come out this failed entity.

The problem is not Nigeria but the difference in priority among igbos

FreeStuffsNG:
All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose. God bless Nigeria forever.
Please vote for Asiwaju Tinubu. Asiwaju Tinubu is a brilliant visionary leader and consistent Nigerian patriot to the core.

So it's Tinubu that said he doesn't believe in Nigeria that is not enemy of Nigeria ?

Just wait let's see if APC will make him 2023 flag bearer , make you see campaign

Una go cry tire.


The next Presidency is for Igbos. But, they must present their candidates and mobilize for them nation wide. Yorubas, Hausas, Fukanis, Kanuris, Ijaws have all done it and plunged Nigeria into more difficulties, let Igbos too try their luck. Who knows, an Igbo man may just be our Messiah.

However, nobody will zone the Presidency to Igbos, they must fight for it. The unwritten zoning is between North and South and not between the fraudulent 6 regions. That is why North-East or North-Central cannot say that it is their turn. Even during past elections, Buhari, Ojukwu, Abubakar Rimi and others contested against Obasanjo. The Presidency was not zoned to Obasanjo's village nah.

Igbos must present formidable candidates. Power is never given on a platter of gold. Power is fought for and won or snatched. Igbos must be ready to contest against the Yoruba candidates lead by our top joint strikers the Jagaban Borgu and Star Boy Osinbanjo, if they don’t prepare and mobilize for their candidates, we Yorubas will snatch the Presidency from them and they will cry blood.

At the moment, there is no better economist in the world that Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo the Solution. That's the man that taught so called world acclaimed economists from EU, US, World Bank African Union, European Central Ban and others Macro Economist. He taught them how to manage the economy when you see recession approaching. That was why during the so called global recession of 2008, while the world world was crying and weeping, Nigerians were smiling, laughing and throwing Owambe parties every weekend, that's because Soludo the Solution was in charge. But when Musa Yar'Adua another ethnic bigot got there as President, he replaced a proven professor of Economics with Sanusi Lamido who had just MSc in Islamic studies. If Soludo is presented as Presidential candidate, even those who hate Igbos (if there are any) will campaign for Soludu the Solution. No Yoruba man will vote for clowns like Pius Ayim Pius or Dave Umahi

But, for the sake of peace and inclusiveness, I think Igbos should have it. They have developed Malaysia, Indonesia, India, UK, US, Israel even Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, e.t.c. let us give them the opportunity to develop Nigeria. Afterall we did not know that the current lifeless terrorist hiding inside the Rock has nothing in his brain until we gave him the chance, let give Igbos too a chance, I am sure Igbos will not disappoint us like the lifeless terrorist.

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