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Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday scoffed at comments credited to the National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon Emma Ibediro, and his party that Ndigbo cannot produce the next president in 2023. Ohanaeze is insisting that the south east should not be seen as a minority tribe in the country, this is as the Anambra State chairman of the APC, Mr. Basil Ejidike, explained that the quest by the South-East for the presidency of the country cannot be handed down to the zone freely.
Reacting to the comment, Special Assistant on Media to Chief John Nnia Nwodo, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emeka Attamah, said the statement was self-indicting. “I think it’s a very huge indictment within the APC if they think that they cannot mobilize Ndigbo between now and 2023 sufficiently for them to vie for the presidency.
“Yes, because if their policies are Igbo-friendly, it will attract the attention of Ndigbo, and naturally they will vote for APC and whoever they present as an Igbo presidential candidate then. So, let them first of all make their programmes policies conducive and amenable to Ndigbo,” he said. Meanwhile, Ejidike, who spoke to Saturday Telegraph in Awka yesterday, in reaction to the position of Ibediro, noted that the Igbos cannot achieve this ambition without dialogue with other zones.
He said: “We are aware of the clamour from this part of the country on the presidency of Nigeria and I can tell you that the demand is fair and proper but like the National Organizing Secretary said, it is not given freely like that. “We also need to get other parts of the country to sit down with us so that we can discuss it and take a stand on how to go about it. Our party, the APC, has a way of getting around the issue without any problems but we have to discuss.
“Our great party has internal arrangements on how to produce our presidential candidate and that is in line with the construction of the party and when we follow the process we shall arrive at who becomes the presidential candidate.”
Reacting to the comment, Special Assistant on Media to Chief John Nnia Nwodo, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emeka Attamah, said the statement was self-indicting. “I think it’s a very huge indictment within the APC if they think that they cannot mobilize Ndigbo between now and 2023 sufficiently for them to vie for the presidency.
“Yes, because if their policies are Igbo-friendly, it will attract the attention of Ndigbo, and naturally they will vote for APC and whoever they present as an Igbo presidential candidate then. So, let them first of all make their programmes policies conducive and amenable to Ndigbo,” he said. Meanwhile, Ejidike, who spoke to Saturday Telegraph in Awka yesterday, in reaction to the position of Ibediro, noted that the Igbos cannot achieve this ambition without dialogue with other zones.
He said: “We are aware of the clamour from this part of the country on the presidency of Nigeria and I can tell you that the demand is fair and proper but like the National Organizing Secretary said, it is not given freely like that. “We also need to get other parts of the country to sit down with us so that we can discuss it and take a stand on how to go about it. Our party, the APC, has a way of getting around the issue without any problems but we have to discuss.
“Our great party has internal arrangements on how to produce our presidential candidate and that is in line with the construction of the party and when we follow the process we shall arrive at who becomes the presidential candidate.”
