Igbo socio-political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Saturday
said that there was no reason to deny the Igbo the opportunity to produce the
successor of the present president, Muhammadu Buhari.
Ohanaeze said that the current security challenges in the
region was not an alibi to deny Ndigbo the opportunity to succeed Buhari in
2023.
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, George Obiozor, in
his Christmas and New Year message to Ndigbo which he delivered in Owerri, Imo
state on Friday, said that though the region expressed insecurities and
economic downturn in 2021, 2022 provides good things for south easterners.
The Igbo leader said, “Insecurity is a poisoned arrow
deliberately fired on the south east. We in Ohanaeze say categorically that the
architects of this mischievous scheme have failed woefully.
“Insecurity will not be an excuse to deny the Presidency of
Nigeria to the south east in 2023.”
“Consequently Ndigbo were confronted with anger or envy
,hostility and violence at any given crisis in Nigeria and even outside
Nigeria.
“Ndigbo seek Nigeria unity but not unity of slaves and
masters, we seek peace but not peace of the grave yard. We seek justice because
we know that throughout history those denied justice have had no interest in
peace.
“Today Nigeria
President of Igbo extraction is imperative and an idea whose time has come.”
Speaking on the abandoned proposal of floating the Ebubeagu
security outfit for the zone, Obiozor said that Ohanaeze after a meeting with
the governors of the south east recently has gotten their assurance to launch
the security outfit to enhance security in the zone even as he charged the
governors to keep their promise and make the project a reality before the end
of the year.
Meanwhile,elder statesman and chairman of the Ohanaeze
Council of Elders,Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has insisted that there is no
faction in the organisation, affirming that the only recognised President is
Obiozor.
“We would only be making ourselves a laughing stock if we
continue to believe that there is faction in Ohanaeze,Obiozor was duely elected
and it was seen by all,” Iwuanyanwu said.
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