- Caution Tinubu, Jonathan, Atiku on 2023
Prominent leaders from the South-East geo-political zone have appealed to its members to shelve petty animosities and antagonism and work as as united team towards winning the 2023 general election for the party.
The APC stalwarts, which included the host governor, Hope Uzodimma, members of House of Representatives, Nkiruka Onyejeocha and Chinedu Ogah; Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnia Onu; member of the APC Interim Committee, Sen. Ken Nnamani; Managing Director of Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. George Muoghalu; Senators Osita Izunaso, Nkechi Nwaogu and Andy Ubah amongst other stakeholders from the zone, met yesterday in Owerri, the Imo State capital..
The stakeholders resolved to do all in their powers to win the forthcoming Anambra State governorship poll, even as they harped on the need for conscientious membership registration and reconciliation of party structures from ward to State levels.
The Igbo leaders also re-stated the call for the next President to emerge from the South-East. They spoke at a Solidarity Conference organised by the Global Movement for Igbo President 2023 and United for Better Nigeria Initiative. The conference focused on the emergence of an Igbo President.
Igbo youths were not left out in the agitation, as the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth wing, Arthur Obiora, said 2023 President must be an Igbo man. Obiora, represented by the Director of Planning and Strategy, and leader of Igbo Young Politicians Forum, Engr. Tony-Ezekwelu, urged political parties to zone their 2023 presidential tickets to the South-East.
“We are not begging anybody; Igbo man must be President in 2023. Those who are supporting Bola Tinubu and former President Goodluck Jonathan and Atiku Abubakar want to break Nigeria up.”, he stated.
According to him, rotational presidency should start with Igbo ethnic nation.
