How Buhari can help Ndigbo produce president in 2023

– VON DG, Okechukwu has urged pro-Biafra agitators to support President Buhari and forget about Biafra

– According to him, supporting Buhari is a ticket to the presidency in 2023 for Ndigbo

– He says the Biafra agitation was not in the interest of Ndigbo

Osita Okechukwu, the director general of Voice of Nigeria (VON) has advised those agitating for Biafra to sheathe their swords, because their agitation was not in the interest of Ndigbo.

According to him, the Igbos have a big chance to produce Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023, should they support the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, This Day reports.

Speaking at his hometown, Eke in Udi local government area of Enugu state during the Egwu Abia Festival said the Buhari administration will soon commence work on the 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressways, which were captured among others in the 2016 budget.

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Osita Okechukwu, VON DG has advised those agitating for Biafra to sheathe their swords, because the agitation isn’t in the interest of Ndigbo

The immediate past spokesman of Southeast the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership caucus urged all pro-Biafra agitators especially the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to stop their agitation for sovereign state of Biafra and support President Buhari in the overall interest of the people of the zone.

Although, Okechukwu agreed that the constitution of APC has no provision for rotation or zoning, but convention gives Ndigbo a good chance if they support President Muhammadu Buhari till 2023.

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He said: “In the public domain, there is the law, with its legal teeth and the convention with its moral weight.

“If Ndigbo collectively support the Buhari administration, we stand to gain as most of the dilapidated roads, 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu Coal will be fixed. I therefore plead with the boys agitating for Biafra to consider the overall interest of Ndigbo who are doing relatively well in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria.

“Therefore, if we support Buhari, nothing will stop us from harvesting the moral weight of zoning convention, since equity and justice is on our side. For our brothers of the Southwest and South South have had their turns since our return to democracy in 1999.”

Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has addressed the issue of Igbo presidency.

Emma Powerful, the spokesperson for the group has defined as political of compensation, the kite being flown by some Northern elders to the effect that Ndigbo would be allowed to clinch the presidential seat.

He stated that they are not interested in Nigeria’s affairs anymore, continuing that those flying the kite of Igbo presidency is just a distraction.

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