The Igbo Unity Group, World Igbo Youth Council and Nigerian Presidency of South-East Extraction Movement on Thursday said Ndigbo “must produce the next president of Nigeria whenever Dr. Goodluck Jonathan quits.” They argued that the “other zones of the country have had their fair share in the power distribution except the South-East.”
The groups spoke at an annual lecture in Enugu.
The lecture on Igbo unity, was delivered by former Anambra State governor, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife.
In a communique by Mr. Chuks Ibegbu and Chief Charles Okereke, IUF Secretary General and NPIEM Oversea Coordinator respectively, they called for a complete restructuring of Nigeria and creation of more states and councils in the South-East.
The communique read in part, “The Federal Government should address the infrastructural challenges in the South-East. There is no single federal job creation industry in the zone. This needs to be anxiously addressed to bring succour to our teeming jobless youths.
“The federal roads in the South-East, especially Enugu/Port-Harcourt and Enugu-Onitsha roads that are death traps, should be reconstructed without further delay. The dualisation of Lokoja-Abuja federal highway should be extended to Enugu since major users of the road are from the South-East and South-South.”
The groups in a communique also called on the Federal Government to take steps to address the Boko Haram and security challenges in the country of which the people “of the South-East are gretest victims.”
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Joke of the century. My summation is that the Igbos have badly miscalculated by consigning their support to Mr. Goodluck EBELE AZIKWE Jonathan. I find it hard to believe that after 8 years of GEJ, the other parts of the country will agree for power to now go the Igbos for another eight years, making an absence of a total of 16 years from other geo zones. Hard to fathom. We are either in a minority century, or power reverts back to the other major ethnic group.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely the joke of the century.The presidency of this country is not turn by turn. The Igbos have not proved to other ethnic groups that they are politically mature to handle the affairs of this country. I am from the Ibo speaking area of Delta state and I don't think that the Igbos have played the vital role of reaching out to other geo-political zones. Even if you zone the presidency to South-East, every family in the East will run for the slot because of their greed and maybe republican nature, unlike the Yorubas who will rally around one person. There's a saying in my place " Igbo enwe eze" meaning Igbos don't have a leader or king. My dear Igbos do your homework well and others will respect you. shekina!
ReplyDeleteThough am a yoruba man but i will totally support igbo presidency as no other tribe in Nigeria as contributed positively to the economic growth of the nation like the igbos, what i can never bear is the thought having another northerner as a president, those people are mentally lazy, they see government establishments as their birthright and above all, they are selfish.
ReplyDeleteThere is no day i read post like this and not fear for the future of Nigeria. My question is, why on earth will someone be thinking presidency should be zoned. I am a Yoruba man and i do not care who rules the country. Be you Hausa or Fulani or Tiv or Delatan, Urhobo, Isoko, South South, or whatever and wherever the leader might emerge from.
ReplyDeleteGuys, we need to grow up and stop thinking Presidency should be zoned. Let those that are interested come out, tell us what you have brought to the table, your experiences and competencies, values and leadership experience. My People, this is what we should be after and come 2015, this is what i expect youths to be talking about. And not bringing sentiments into determining your president bearing in mind that the same sentiments alot of people allowed yester-year is what is haunting us all today.