Under the auspices of the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum (IECF), elders in Igbo land have warned to censure any Igbo politician who accepts to be a running mate to someone from outside the region in the 2023 general elections.
They claimed this amid mounting calls for Nigeria’s next president to come from the country’s south-east. Since the fourth dispensation began in 1999, no southeasterner has served as President of Nigeria.
Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the forum’s chairman and former governor of Anambra State, said in a statement that the region will not accept anything less than producing the country’s next president.
“Emboldened by the increasing demand and support by credible and patriotic Nigerians for power to shift to the South in 2023, the Igbo Elders Forum hereby encourages visionary, credible and creative presidential materials of South-East zone to declare their intension for Presidency and pursue it with every sense of seriousness, vigour and commitment.
We are very serious about this directive.
Do not mind those unserious bootlickers who are angling to be running mates to candidates from other parts of the country, as the Igbos will not take it lightly with any of our sons or daughters who accept to be running mates to any person outside the South-East zone in 2023.
It is either we are allowed to produce the president of this country in 2023 to change the appalling narrative of continued decay, poverty, insecurity, poor governance, corruption and maladministration in Nigeria or out of it.
No half measure, as serious sanctions will be visited on any Igbo man or woman that sabotages this noble and patriotic decision of our people to provide for Nigeria a credible, visionary and creative president.
Legally, morally, and strategically, it is the turn of the South-East to produce the next president of the country as the other zones have been given the opportunity to serve this country in that capacity.
” he said According to Ezeife, apart from the need for equity, justice and fairness, it is also to change the narrative of Nigeria.
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