The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Chief Osita Okechukwu, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is in good position of allowing Ndigbo ( igbos) to become President in 2023 than the Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Paty (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
Okechukwu, who spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu today, Monday said: “Buhari I know will not embark on third Term like Obasanjo. The truism is that Buhari’s remaining four years post-2019 is cast in constitutional stone.
“This is unlike Atiku’s own which is at best a pledge, hence creates fluid eight years for Obi and by extension Ndigbo.”
The VON chieftain, who was reacting to the statement by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo at Nenwi during the weekend that “it is dangerous for Ndigbo to take All Progressives Congress (APC) government serious over the promise of 2023 Nigeria president of Igbo extraction,” called on the former President to give Ndigbo a break.
“He should give us a break; 2023 is our turn to produce a president, for equity, natural justice and good conscience hinted by Obasanjo is to our advantage.
“The only reinforcement Ndigbo needs to compliment this immeasurable equity, natural justice and good conscience is to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari. Voting massively for Buhari will elicit support from his followership of over 12 million voting Nigerians.
“How come he (Obasanjo) didn’t handpick Obi to be Vice President in 2007, after embarking on the third term wild goose chase, when he hurriedly settled for former President Goodluck Jonathan? He should give us a break and not distract us.”
Source: NAN.
