Igbos in the Southeast of Nigeria have been asked to vote for a Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, who will work for the emergence of an Igbo Presidency in 2023 when the next general elections will be held.
The leader of the Ohanaeze, an umbrella body for the Igbos at home and in Diaspora, Chief John Nwodo, said that it doesn’t matter which political party the candidate for the 2019 is coming from so long as he will agree to do a term that should terminate in 2023.
Chief Nwodo, as President General of the Igbo group was responding to questions from news men on contemporary developments in the nation’s body polity at a reception organized in his honour by the Enugu State Chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,
Saying that Ohanaeze is not partisan but meant to project and promote Igbo values, Chief Nwodo said that the yet-to-be-identified 2019 presidential candidate with Igbo interest would reach a truce with the Igbo nation that he or she will only serve for one tenure so as to avail the nation the opportunity of producing a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.
The Igbo leader, who just returned from the United States of America (USA) where he inaugurated the North Carolina chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said the pan-Igbo group would take deep look into manifestos and programmes of candidates in 2019 presidential poll.
“Whoever wants to be president will assure us that he will not stay in office more than one tenure. Igbo will get presidency in 2023. This neglect will be worked out. We will look at who will protect the interest of Ndigbo.”[myad]
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