The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Dr Victor Oye, has said going by the pattern of voting in the Saturday’s presidential poll in the South-East, the possibility of the Igbo producing the President of the country in 2023 is dicey.
The South-East geopolitical zone voted overwhelmingly for the Peoples Democratic Party in the election.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday in Amawbia, near Awka, the Anambra
State capital, Oye blamed the Igbo for always putting their “eggs in one
basket.”
He said the Igbo should stop playing politics of
emotions and face what he called the “reality of the country’s
monolithic political structure.”
He said, “For me, I believe the
Igbo play more of politics of emotion than politics of pragmatism. They
are not realistic; they always pander to emotionalism.
“Everything
to them is all about a particular interest. Once they make up their
mind to go towards a particular direction, that is where a sizeable
number of them will go”.
“So, I’m not optimistic about 2023 Igbo presidency going by what has happened now”.
He said the Igbo should come together as a people to discuss their common interest.
He added, “Their common problem is unity. They cannot always come together
and they are easily swayed by extraneous things as demonstrated in the
last two elections of 2015 and 2019”.
“Igbo should realign themselves and re-determine the options before them.
From what happened last Saturday, the Igbo people worked as a team; but in
the end, they lost. They won the battle and lost the war.
“They asserted themselves, showing they can make things happen. It shows
that if they pool their resources together and work under one political
party, they will make more foray”.
“Ndigbo need to play at the
national level and not ethnocentric regional politics, knowing that
Nigeria is a monolithic political structure”.
Source:- Punch.ng.
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