Ohanaeze: No Igbo politician should run as vice-presidential candidate in 2023

The apex socio-political organisation in the Southeast, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, declared on Thursday, May 5, that no politician of Southeast extraction should accept to be running mate to any presidential candidate in 2023.

President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. George Obiozor made the declaration at the Imeobi Ohaneze Ndigbo meeting in Enugu.

Obiozor said the clamour for Igbo to be elected president of Nigeria was morally and historically justifiable and a project to which every Igbo must commit

“All the double dealings about zoning and rotation of power are orchestrated conspiracy to deprive the Southeast of the right to produce the president.

“I encourage all the presidential aspirants from the zone to remain focused, tenacious and optimistic,’’ Obiozor said.

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He explained that the Political Action Committee (PAC) of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo would meet several eminent Nigerians to persuade them to appreciate why a politician of Southeast extraction should be elected as president of Nigeria.

Obiozor lamented the weekly “sit-at-home’’ order observed on Mondays in the Southeast and said the Igbo are recording huge losses in incomes as a result of its observance.

“Ndigbo has tried severally to persuade the youths to realise the consequences of their actions,’’ he noted.

Among prominent lgbo leaders in attendance at the Imeobi were Chief Nnia Nwodo, the ninth President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Sen. Victor Umeh, Peter Umeadi, Allison Madueke, Chris Iwuanyanwu and Prof. Fred Eze.

Meanwhile, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has given kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari on his handling of the security situation in the country, saying Nigeria would have been worst than Afghanistan without the President’s intervention. 

While interacting with State House correspondents after a meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Ayade said the insecurity situation in Nigeria could have been worse if Buhari had not come into power at the time he did.