Igbo presidency: Ohanaeze rejects Atiku's offer

Atiku Abubakar

Atiku Abubakar

Southeast social political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has dismissed promise by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar Abubakar that he will work for the zone to produce the presidency in 2023 if people of the area help him to actualise his ambition of taking over as Nigeria’s president in 2023.

Atiku made the promise during the PDP’s Southeast Zonal Stakeholders’ Meeting in Enugu last Tuesday.

He said he would help actualise an Igbo presidency in 2027, should the region support him to win the election in 2023.

But Ohanaeze Ndigbo through its publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia dismissed the offer, according to The Nation newspaper

He insisted that it is the turn of the Igbo to produce the president after eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari, a Northerner in power.

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“Atiku has said what he wanted to say, but he would have realised that nobody would take that advice, no person from the Southeast or an Igbo would take that advice seriously.

“I can assure you no person from Southeast or Igboland will take that advice that we should wait until 2027 because, right from time, everybody knows that it is the turn of the South and, by extension, Southeast to produce the next president.

“So, any patriotic Nigerian will realise that what is best for Nigeria is to allow the Southeast to produce the President.

“Any person talking or discussing the contrary knows in his or her conscience that he is doing the wrong thing or taking the wrong direction.

“We are not in support of any person saying that; it is not acceptable to the Southeast and the whole Ndigbo. Everybody knows it is the turn of the Southeast to produce the next President in 2023; any person talking to the contrary knows he is making a mistake and that person is not sincere.”

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