Tag: Igbo presidency

‘Igbo should reflect on reality of Tinubu’s presidency’ – Nnamani

Aminu Imam

A former Enugu State Governor, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has said that it is not late for the Igbo to reflect on and carefully X-ray the looming reality of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023. Nnamani, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Cooperation & Integration in Africa/NEPAD, in an issued statement in Abuja, asked Igbos several questions concerning their relationship with the Yoruba, noting that the Yorubas are not their problem. In his piece, titled: “The Igbo insularity and its Yoruba Wahala”, Nnamani asked: “How did the Igbo…

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2023: Why the Igbos cannot produce president – ex-minister, Ogunlewe

Aminu Imam

…Says: “Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi persons will not listen to themselves” A former Minister of Works, Adeseye Ogunlewe, has said the inability of the people of the South-East geo-political zone to come together under a leadership would hamper their chances of producing a president in 2023. Ogunlewe, who spoke on a television programme yesterday, advised the Igbos of the South-East region to invest in party politics in order to stand a good chance at the next general election. The former Alliance for Democracy (AD) Senator in 1999, maintained that the way…

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2023 Presidency: ‘Threatening secession won’t work’, El-Rufa’i tells Igbo leaders

Aminu Imam

Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, has told Igbo leaders from the South-East how to go about achieving their goal of producing Nigeria’s president in 2023. The Governor said although he believes power should move to the southern part of Nigeria in the coming elections, the people of the South-East must note that they cannot get the presidency by threatening other regions with secession. In addressing a question thrown at him on the matter at a virtual event organised by the Africa Leadership Group, the Governor explained that politics has…

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2023: Northern elders back Igbo for Presidency

Aminu Imam

Ø  Asks APC,PDP to zone tickets to South-East Ahead of the 2023 general elections, some northern elders have thrown their weights behind the clamour for an Igbo presidency, insisting that Nigeria’s 2023 presidency should rotate to the South-East zone and not to any other.  The elders, operating under the aegis of ‘Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development’, in an issued statement by their National Coordinator, Engr. Zana Goni and the National Women Leader, Hajia Mario Bichi, insisted that the Igbos of South East extraction should produce the next president,…

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