Northern group canvasses support for Igbo Presidency in 2023

A political group from the northern part of the country has called on other regions to support the emergence of an Igbo Presidency come 2023 in the interest of equity, fairness, and justice.

The group has called on the people of the South East to pull themselves together and que behind the likes of Orji Kalu, former Abia State governor and governor, Rochas Okorocha of Imo State in order to actualize the Igbo Presidency by 2023.

The group, “Northern Front for Justice and Equity (NFJE), lamented that 47 years after former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, declared “No victor, No vanquished” and proclaimed the 3RS of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation  , and Reconciliation after the civil war, which was targeted at healing the wounds of the ill-fated war, the people of the Eastern region are yet to produce a President of the country.

Chairman of the group, Yunusa Sule noted that the people of the south-east still feel shortchanged in the rulership equation of this country as they are yet to produce a president of Nigeria, which he said was indeed a long time and honestly overdue.

Sule a press conference in Abuja that there is the need for “Ndigbo to put their acts together and foster unity among themselves in order to forge a common front and collaborate with other parts of the country to actualize their dream of an Igbo presidency.

“We are therefore calling on the rest of the country to extend to the South East what was done for the South West in 1999 when the rest of the country, including the South East, stood down to produce Chief Olu Falae and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the two leading presidential candidates. Head or tail, a Yoruba man emerged in the person of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

“It is a gesture that we believe should be extended to the South East in the interest of equity, fairness, and justice.The South West, South-South and the North had taken their turns as presidents of Nigeria at various times since the end of the civil war, only the South East, despite having one of the three major ethnic groups has not been given the opportunity to produce a president, Sule added.