Chuks Ibegbu, the Deputy National
Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze
Ndigbo, has asked the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Bola Tinubu, to shelve any ambition he is nursing for 2023 presidential
election.
Ibegbu, who made the group’s
position known, in an interview with reporters on Friday, in Umuahia, the Abia
State capital, urged the ex-Lagos State governor to rather form a Non
Governmental Organization (NGO), to assist poor Nigerians and democratise the
wealth some of them accrued from the country.
Former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, had declared that a
national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu was the best
person to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
The former Minister, who recently
dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said he was going to support the
former Lagos Governor to emerge President in 2023.
“I have been reading and watching
a lot of comments about it. I believe 2023 should be thrown open. Nobody should
be shut out. There is nothing wrong about Southwest showing interest. We are
talking about democracy”.
But, according to Ibegbu, “This
is the tie for him and other Nigerians that made their wealth solely from
Nigeria politics, to pay back to the society they milked directly and
indirectly. I wonder why and how Tinubu could nurse such ambition, if its true,
when the South East and the third leg of Nigeria is yet to occupy the position.
“I laud Tinubu’s courage and
efforts to deepen the democratic space from the June 12 days, but it appears
diminishing return is now setting in. I think it’s high time for him to help
build an equitable and just Nigeria.
“He should be less controversial
and less ambitious, so that, those who cherish his doggedness will not abandon
him in the years ahead. Let him listen to the voices of wisdom from Yoruba land
. You know our Yoruba brothers are known as arbiters of fairness and justice.”
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