The apex Igbo socio-political
organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Wednesday rubbished remarks by Arewa
Consultative Forum, ACF, on Igbo Presidency.
In a chat with Dailypost,
Ohanaeze’s Deputy spokesperson, Chuks Ibegbu insisted that those agitating for
Biafra like the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, can’t stop the push for Igbo
presidency in 2023.
ACF Secretary-General, Anthony
Sani, had warned that Nigerians would be scared to elect a President from the
Southeast if they are seen to be agitating for secession from Nigeria.
Sani had stressed that Igbo
people are suffering from what he termed “superiority and inferiority
complexes.”
According to the ACF scribe, the
Southeast was playing both victim and entitled, while cautioning them that
“democracy is a contest of ideas and reason and is never a bullfight.”
Sani had said: “Igbos suffer from
both superiority and inferiority complexes.
“At one point, they tout their superiority
by claiming to be over and above any other nationality in Nigeria because they
are better at the use of their superior commercial acumen for trade.
“At another, they play the victim
by crying of marginalization the most. Power in a multi-party democracy is
never secured through threats and intimidation, nor is it obtained by jeremiads
out of pity.
“This is because democracy is a
contest of ideas and reason and is never a bullfight.
“Igbos cannot agitate for
separation and hanker for president by still expecting the country would not be
scared of voting them for the presidency.
“Igbos may wish to recall that
Senator McCain lost the elections because he had [Mrs Palin] who was governor
of the state of Alaska. This was also because her husband was accused of
attending a meeting of separatists who wish the state of Alaska to leave [the]
USA and join Russia.
“I do not see how somebody from
Scotland, Catalan, Quebec, Aceh or Xinjiang could dream of being voted
president of their countries. Reason: Such a person would most likely play
Gorbachev.”
However, Ibegbu said: “What Sani
said is rubbish because what Boko Haram is talking about, is it not secession?
Boko Haram is talking about Islamic
Caliphate, but it did not stop Buhari from becoming a President.
“What Sani said has no meaning,
its complete ‘brabadash.’ Boko Haram did not stop Buhari so those agitating for
Biafra like IPOB can’t stop us from becoming President in 2023. I insist, 2023
is our turn to become president.”
On the issue of cabal in the
presidency as admitted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba
Shehu, Ibegbu said: “You can’t stop cabal anywhere. Cabal can be found even in
our houses.”
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