2023: Northern Group Makes New Move, Drums Support for Igbo Presidency
- The Arewa Group have called on Nigerians at home and abroad, to support Igbos in their bid for the presidency in 2023
- The association national president, Alhaji Mohammed Nalado Umaru recently made their position known during a media briefing
- Umaru maintained that the support for the Igbos to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari is very important
Abia state- The Association of Arewa Communities in the southeast region of the country, has taken a bold step to support the Igbo presidency.
Leadership reports that the northern group has thrown its weight behind the clamour for the emergence of a president of Nigeria of Igbo extraction in 2023.
At a press conference in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, the national president of the association, Alhaji Mohammed Nalado Umaru, urged Nigerians in general to support the call.
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He said:
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“The unity of this country should be paramount in our hearts. This we can achieve by allowing an Igbo man to emerge as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2023.
“This is the time, we should give our consent for an Igbo executive president. Our people should give them the benefit of doubt to lead the country in the next political dispensation.”
He warned that if given the opportunity, they should speak with one voice to avoid a repeat of what happened to them during the 1999 primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jos, Plateau State capital.
According to him, the crisis in the southeast is caused by the marginalisation of the people in many areas by both the present and previous administrations, noting that the time to end it had come.
The president stated further that in pursuance of the agenda, they had concluded plans to tour every part of the country with the message and to correct some misconceptions other sections have about Ndigbo.
Finally! Ohanaeze Ndigbo highlights what would end IPOB agitation for Biafra
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that with the growing agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for the secession of Biafra from Nigeria, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has revealed what could bring lasting peace across the country.
It was reported that the national president for Ohanaeze Youth Worldwide, Damian Okafor, said the emergence of an Igbo president would end the IPOB agitation.
Okafor said having an Igbo president would among other things bring lasting peace to the southeast region and Nigeria as a whole.
My state is running Jesus economy, Nigerian governor boasts
In another report, Governor Nyesom Wike on Sunday, November 14, revealed why Rivers state is one of the wealthiest in the southeast.
Wike, during the fundraising service for the purchase of land by the Church of Christ in Nations, Port Harcourt, noted that the state runs what he calls the Jesus economy.
In a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, Wike, who donated N30M to the church said that his administration will not fail to support the ministry as it affected the spiritual and physical aspects of people.
Source: Legit.ng
