It’s Only Igbo President can unite the country – Ohanaeze

The apex Igbo group- Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has declared that only Nigerian president of Igbo extraction can unite the country.

Secretary General of the group, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said this recently during a radio Programme with Living Radio Aba, Abia State.

He said the zone is not advocating for southeast presidency in 2023, but for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.

Isiguzoro, maintained that it’s only a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction that can assuage the grief of the Igbo people, the marginalization, injustice and will end the clamour for secession.

He said: “we are not advocating for southeast presidency, what we are advocating for is a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.
” There are Ndigbo in River State, Delta State, Benue State and so on, but the core zone that demands equity, justice and fairness in Southeast which has not produced a Nigerian president.
“In South South where we have Ndigbo, a South South man from the Ijaw nation has been Nigerian’s president for six years. In 2003, Mohammadu Buhari said he will be the person that will give an Igbo man president in the future, he said that in Abia state.
“By 2023 it will be 20years and that promise may come to pass. With what we are seeing in All Progressives Congress (APC), if the national Chairman comes from the North, there is the possibility that the presidential candidate will come from the south.

“If the presidency is coming from the South, it is now left for us, Ohaneze Ndigbo to galvanize support for our own. What matters most is let him be a quality Igbo man that will bring about quality governance. We always fight for merit, we are the real owners of Nigeria. We are saying that all political parties should zone their presidential position to the southeast.

“If peradventure the injustice or any attempt to thwart 2023 Igbo presidency succeeds, it will not augur well with the unity of the country. It will strengthen self determination, and the agitation for Biafra. It is only a justified Igbo presidency that will unite Nigeria” he stated.

The secretary General, called on Ndigbo, both home and in diaspora to massively participate in the continuous voter’s card registration exercise which is already on going.