The Presiding Bishop, House of God Int’l Church, Athan
Azubuike has claimed the Igbos will always play second fiddle and may never
produce the president of Nigeria even when they have all it takes to lead the country
in 2023.
The cleric said this at an event for young clergy in Owerri.
He insisted that the average Igbo man is a trader and not a
politician as they do not have the skills to mobilise people at the grassroots
He said,” One thing about an Igbo man is that an average
Igbo person is a trader only interested in profit-making, we are not interested
in working. We are not interested in the grassroots. Once it’s a few months to
elections, Igbo politicians will start visiting churches in remote villages,
that is the sense of a trader, not a politician.”
”Let me be very frank with all on why Igbos may never
produce a president but play second fiddle by asking who is coming out in Igbo
land? You’ll tell me it’s Rochas Okorocha, Anyim Pius Anyim, Sam Ohuabunwa
among others but since Pius became the Senate President, how many times have
you seen him and others in Imo State. The presidency is not a local government
election .”
He said,” Today, people are talking about the 2023
presidency and I ask those Igbo politicians claiming to be interested in the
race what have they been doing to galvanize the grassroots.”
He further queried,” Why is it that an Igbo man is only
interested in meeting people only when it’s a few months to any election. It’s
arrant nonsense. If the program organized by Mezie Imo Clergy Forum today was
held in Yoruba land or the North, this place will be filled with great
personalities but here the reverse is the case”
” A good politician works before he shows his ambition. A
good politician works before galvanizing for election, that is why I said an
Igbo man is a trader, not a politician.”
“As a presidential aspirant, you need to move around,
increase your horizon and coordinate with other zones even before now.”
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