The visit of a former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, to the All Progressives Congress(APC) Vice-Presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima has caused rift among members of the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum. Although the official statement had claimed that it was a courtesy visit, sources said it had thrown the IECF into controversies as members
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Doyin Okupe is the number one on the Twitter trend table after he shared a controversial statement on Twitter. The former presidential aide tweeted: “A national consensus for Igbo Presidency cannot evolve until the core north forgives the Igbos for the killing of Sardauna of Sokoto by nigerian soldiers of igbo extraction in the 1966
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Former Group Managing Director, Diamond Bank Plc and two-time governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, has opined that handing the Igbo Nigeria’s presidency would not solve the problem of Nigeria, as some fundamental structural problems must be handled for an egalitarian society to be institutionalised. The
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Convener of the New Nigeria Group (NNG), Sam Ohuabunwa, has said that a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction will transform the country. Ohuabunwa said this yesterday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on some current political developments in the country. The industrialist and former chairman, Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), said that there would have no
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By: Isaac Ojo & Ifeoma Ejiofor The Managing Director (MD) and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Inland Water Ways (NIWA) Chief George Moghalu says Ndigbo must work hard to get the presidency. Chief Moghalu during an interaction with journalists in Nnewi on Saturday said that the need to work hard has become imperative
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Following the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Northern elders for Peace and Development have thrown their weights behind Igbo presidency, insisting that Nigeria’s 2023 presidency should rotate to the South East zone and not to any other. The group, which noted, its support was borne out of the need for every zone to have a taste
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Former Minister of Aviation under President Goodluck Jonathan, Femi Fani-Kayode, has taken a swipe at Northern politician, Buba Galadima, following his comments that the North will support a southerner for the 2023 presidency but against what he termed “Igbo Presidency”. Galadima had made the statement on Monday, November 16, in an interview on Arise Television,
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An international group, Igbos for A Progressive Nigeria (IPAN) has emphasized the need for Igbos to work harmoniously and utilize every available opportunities in achieving 2023 Igbo presidency. IPAN observed that only unity and consistency of purpose can pave way for Igbo in the forthcoming general elections. The IPAN National Chairman, Comrade Lawrence Onuzulike disclosed
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Dr Chukwuemeke Ezeife, a former Governor of old Anambra, has said that the people of the eastern region were already projecting some persons for the actualisation of an Igbo president in 2023. He said this at a news conference on Sunday in Abuja while speaking on the need to have an Igbo president in 2023
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A South East group yesterday hit Makurdi to engage in talks with a North Central group focusing on the South East’s agitation to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023. The meeting was held under the auspices of South-East and North-Central Forum. Chairman of the forum, Afam Ezenwafor, who doubles as Chairman, Conference of 2019
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC) has said that Igbos will join forces with other Nigerians to make the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a permanent opposition party in the country except they reverse the 2023 presidential ticket zoning formula. OYC said that the PDP’s game plan of an open presidential contest was cleverly designed and
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A former Imo State governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, says since other zones of Nigeria have produced presidents, the South-East zone too should be allowed to produce a president in 2023. He, however, said irrespective of the ethnicity of the country’s next president, what was more important was to have someone who could solve the problem
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The Cross -River State Hausa community has promised the Ohanaeze Ndigbo that it would support the South -East in its quest for the emergence of an Igbo President in 2023 . Paramount leader of the Hausa and Fulani communities in the state , Alhaji Salisu Abba Lawan said while playing host to a delegation of
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Prominent personalities of the Igbo extraction on Monday made strong case for negotiation between the people of the South East and other regions in the country for the actualisation of the Igbo Presidency. They said for the clamour for Igbo President in 2023 to be a reality, other zones in the country must be lobbied
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A British Trained lawyer, Prince Uche Darlington Okeke has advised Ndigbo to employ dialogue and woo other geopolitical zones in Nigeria rather than use of threats to secede. The legal practitioner gave the advice in Nkpor, Idemili North Local government Area of Anambra state while reacting to secession threat made by Elder Chris Eluomuno, Deputy
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