Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has declares support for an Igbo Presidency in 2023.

Obasanjo, now an elder statesman, made this known while receiving a 2023 Presidential aspirant, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa on Thursday in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo maintained that the time has come to bring total reconciliation to Nigeria by supporting a president of Southeast extraction to emerge in 2023.

The former president said he also believes that there are a lot of things that South-easterners can bring on the table.

“Beyond bringing unity to Nigeria or being the cement that holds the country together, I believe that Southeasterners can model hard work and entrepreneurship. That will help in wealth creation and fight against poverty, which is ravaging Nigeria,” he said.

He told Ohuabunwa that running for the office of the president of Nigeria was a tough job and stated that he was looking forward to the final realisation of his vision to see Nigeria fully united.

Ohuabunwa, in response, hailed OBJ as a president who showed the highest level of not only detribalization but also fairness and equity as he didn’t discriminate during his time in power.

Good but he's entitled to 1 vote.

Boyewu:
Good but he's entitled to 1 vote.

Him get people pass you, even you can't pull the amount of voters he would, so chill

More and more Yoruba leaders are throwing their support for Igbo Presidency for 2023

His yoruba brothers won't like this, they hate the truth

“Beyond bringing unity to Nigeria or being the cement that holds the country together, I believe that Southeasterners can model hard work and entrepreneurship. That will help in wealth creation and fight against poverty, which is ravaging Nigeria,” he said.

The Igbos can enlighten Nigeria but unfortunately many here think their role is to disunite Nigeria which they must destroy in order to get Biafra!

Chai. Everyone just dey pless this people's blokos anyhow..

I doubt if Obasanjo still have active voter card.

Lipscomb:
I doubt if Obasanjo still have active voter card.

Did you read Osinbajo's statement about them today, election is around the corner, time to press their blokos harder.

Easternblood:
His yoruba brothers won't like this, they hate the truth

Na true, self righteous, selfish minded old Hypocrite, but when they did not give the thief his third term & was living power with spite, why did he not choose an Igbo running mate with Yaradua?

It was a weak ijaw man he settled for? Even Peter Odili that Ohaneze would have accepted was discarded by Obasanjo & pdp, now he is telling us these nonsense cockerel & bull story?

Lagoon will be a child play for them this time .

helinues:


Did you read Osinbajo's statement about them today, election is around the corner, time to press their blokos harder.

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helinues:


Did you read Osinbajo's statement about them today, election is around the corner, time to press their blokos harder.

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Anything that this fool supports always fails.

Igbos must be smarter than this though if potential is to be fulfilled!

kirajustice:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM

Ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo has denied backing an igbo presidency in 2023, POLITICS NIGERIA has learned.

Obasanjo on Saturday refuted reports that he supported the clamour for Igbo presidency.

It can be recalled that the former leader while receiving a 2023 presidential aspirant, Mao Ohuabunwa, last week, reportedly stated that he would like to see a South-Easterner become President as they have a lot to contribute to the country.

However, in a swift response through his Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, OBJ denied ever making such a comment.

He criticised Ohuabunwa and accused him of being behind the report. "If that was the way the presidential aspirant wanted to approach his ambition; such was a wrong way."

"He came here and the former President received him as a gentleman and in the spirit of his 85th birthday celebrations only for him to go and put words into his mouth. Baba is not that sort of man and if that is the way he wants to fulfil his ambition that is a wrong way."

Barely 11 months to the 2023 general elections, there is a central thread of discourse in the nation on the possibility of a president of Igbo extraction. Proponents of the quest for a Nigerian leader from the Igbo dominated South east axis premise it on six standpoints: Tripod nature of the nation, equity, justice, unity, peace and fair play.

Some of the contenders for the presidency from the South-East are Anyim Pius Anyim and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi State), Kingsley Moghalu (Anambra State), Orji Uzor Kalu and Sam Ohuabunwa (Abia State), Rochas Okorocha (Imo State), Chris Baywood of Baywood Foundation (Enugu) and others expected to make their intention known in the coming days.

While Kalu, Umahi and Okorocha are members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the likes of Anyim and Ohuabunwa are in the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-i-did-not-endorse-igbo-presidency-in-2023-obasanjo-fires-ohuabunwa/

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