2023 Elections: Igbo World Assembly, PANDEF, Others Intensify Advocacy For Power Shift

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, more socio-cultural organizations have intensified advocacy in support of Ndịgbo to produce the next president of Nigeria.

The groups restated their stand during the launch of the Power Shift Movement and forty million ballot in Awka, hosted by the president, Youths Off the Street Initiative, YOTSI, Mr. Kennedy Iyere.

Correspondent Paul Ezeoke reports that while speaking at the event, the President of Igbo World Assembly, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze said other geo-political zones in the country should give Ndịgbo total support to produce the next president to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in the spirit of fairness and equity.

Dr Anakwenze noted that Ndịgbo are builders and could bring out the best in Nigerians with respect for constituted authorities, adding that Igbo presidency would entrench strategic vision and more efficient national economic policy that would elevate the country to greater height.

He maintained that an Igbo president would use his sense of industry and enterprising disposition to evolve creative planning and innovative programmes that would accelerate overall development of the country as well as give all Nigerians a sense of belonging.

Also speaking, the Secretary General eneral of apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Sola Ebiseni, who represented the leader of the Yoruba Nation, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said the group is in support of the southeast producing the next president and stressed the need for restructuring.

Contributing, the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, represented by the group’s national publicity secretary, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, said the Niger Delta was in support of the southeast producing the successor to President Buhari, but asked that Ndịgbo should champion the course.

For the leader of the Tiv Nation, Chief Iorbee Ihagh, his people have agreed that the presidency should go to south and the southeast in particular.

Earlier, Mr. Iyere, said theforty million ballot is a revolutionary platform driven by the youths to address the issue of the next president of the country.