The Apex Igbo socio-political reiterated its resolve to ensure that a Southeasterner becomes Nigeria’s President next year.
Those thinking the Southeast has a plan to exit Nigeria should perish the thought. Ndigbo are not secessionists, nor separatists,” Ohanaeze President, Prof George Obiozor, said at a news conference yesterday.
At the briefing in Enugu, the Enugu State capital, the group unveiled Political Action Committee to ensure work to actualise the dream of an Igbo man becoming President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023.
Reiterating the Igbo’s preparedness to contest and win the coveted seat, Prof Obiozor said the Political Action Committee under his chairmanship, will Ohanaeze’s Secretary-General, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, will serve as the Secretary.
The committee, he added, would be more persuasive in approaching non-Igbo politicians while playing advisory role to Igbo aspirants.
Obiozor said: “Once more may I repeat…, Ndigbo are not secessionists or separatists; the Igbo are prepared and deserve the Presidency. It is politically defensible and morally justifiable.
“To realise this, the National Executive council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has established the Political Action Committee to be chaired by the President General, Ambassador Professor George Obiozor, while the Secretary General, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, MFR will serve as the Secretary. Full composition will be done soon”.
He described Igbo presidency in 2033 as a right decision and an idea, whose time has come.
On the issue of the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and incarceration of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, Obiozor said the apex Igbo body remained consistent in asking for political solution to the problem, including prerogative of mercy for Kanu’s freedom and amnesty.
The Ohanaeze leader said: “It is said in the Bible Ecclesiastes 3,’ that to everything there is season and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
“The essence of the above quotation is to remind Nigerians and Nigeria that at the present age of our country today (about 62 years), we need introspective and retrospective thinking in order to reassess our journey so far as a nation or as a country. In doing so includes serious re-examination of our history as one nation.
