The pan Igbo socio-political
organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday said the Southeast needs Bola Tinubu,
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, if they are to stand a
chance to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023.
Dim Uche Okwukwu, Deputy
President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, said Tinubu controls the votes in
Yoruba land; hence the Igbos need him to produce Nigeria’s president.
Speaking with Dailypost, Okwukwu urged the people of the Southeast to show solidarity to the APC
National Leader over his ill-health.
Okwukwu pointed out that the
former governor of Lagos State was the most benevolent Nigerian politician
after Ahmadu Bello.
According to Okwukwu: “Most of my
people don’t understand why it’s important to express solidarity with Asiwaju
at this moment, the truth is that even if we are to produce an Igbo President
we cannot do it without Yoruba votes and that vote is in the hands of one man
and i know he has firm control of Yoruba land.
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“I studied in Ife, and I
understand Nigeria perfectly. In 1959, the progressives lost government in this
country to the conservatives because Zik and Awolowo disagreed. In 1979, they
lost again because Zik and Awolowo disagreed.
“The Northern progressives always
lost on to the Southern progressives to come together; Asiwaju is one of the
few remaining progressives from the UPN, AG, ACN and today to APC; he is one of
the few remaining alive. People don’t understand his role, which is to lead the
old to the new. This is why he has a lot of influence in Yoruba land.
“I have said this severally, that
Tinubu is the only Nigerian that is politically benevolent, no Nigerian today
can nominate his boy to become Speaker of the House of Representatives who is
bigger than him. The highest Tinubu has ever attained was the governor of
Lagos. The Vice President was his Attorney General in Lagos. This is what they
call a large heart; the only person who exhibited these qualities in Nigeria
was Ahmadu Bello, who allowed Tafawa Balewa to become Prime Minister while he
was still in Kaduna.
“What is causing the problem of
the South is political greed, and we are cultivating a crab culture. If you put
crabs in a basket for three years, they will be there with no one escaping. We
need to copy from Asiwaju a lot; what I can not do, another person should do
it. On the vice president’s issue, Tinubu, who is a Muslim, asked Osinbajo to
go because he is a Christian who is far younger than him. The only political
position Osinbajo had before becoming the Vice President was the Attorney
General of Lagos State; nobody has moved from that position to the Vice
President in Nigeria’s history apart from Osinbajo and Asiwaju allowed it.
“If we follow the lessons of
Asiwaju, we would not complain. The bane of Southern politics is that we don’t
want another person to be stronger than us, and we are not getting it right. We
need him to be alive; his death is not going to be a loss to Yorubas alone but
to Nigeria.”
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