THE All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftains in the South-East, have
told a former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to “give
Ndigbo a break, because 2023 is the turn of Igbo extraction to produce
the President of Nigeria.”
Director General of Voice of Nigeria,
VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu made the assertion, while speaking alongside
the APC national vice chairman, South East, Emma Eneukwu and Minister of
Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, during the South-East APC
stakeholders meeting. They argued that it was only Ndigbo that had not
occupied Aso Presidential Villa.
Okechukwu said: “Let me thank
our elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for urging Nigerians to
give Ndigbo a chance and for recognising the fact that out of the three
major ethnic nationalities, only Ndigbo had not occupied Aso
Presidential Villa. This being the case, he should give us a break. 2023
is our turn to produce the President as the equity, natural justice
and good conscience hinted by Obasanjo is to our advantage.
“The
only reinforcement Ndigbo need to compliment this immeasurable equity,
natural justice and good conscience is to vote for President Muhammadu
Buhari. Voting for Buhari will elicit support from his cult
followership. Buhari I know will not embark on 3rd Term like Obasanjo.
The truism is that Buhari’s remaining 4 years post 2019 is cast in
constitutional stone; unlike Atiku’s own which is at best a pledge,
hence creates fluid 8 years for Obi and by extension Ndigbo”, He said.
Also
speaking, the APC national vice chairman, South East, Emma Eneukwu
who appealed to south-easterners to massively vote for Buhari in the
forthcoming election to justify 2023 presidency, pointed out that the
president has only four years to stay in office as the constitution
stipulated.
He said: “We are here to prepare for 2019 election
which will hold in the next few weeks to elect President Muhammadu
Buhari so we can have a chance in 2023. The problems of Nigeria will
stop when an Igbo person becomes the president of this country.
“We have to show interest in the Presidential race in 2023 by uniting ourselves with one voice.”
In
an address, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu
disclosed that APC has taken over the whole South East and would deliver
Buhari in 2019.
Onu disclosed that APC got more votes in 2015
and would be better in 2019, adding that the party has mobilised more
members to vote massively for the party.
He appealed to South-East leaders to watch the political dimension and support Buhari who has only 4 years to stay in office.
“We
want to show the country in 2019 that APC has taken over the
south-east. The stakeholders of the party played an important role in
2015 and we are mobilising more people to vote massively for the party
in 2019”, Onu said.
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