Report has emerged that Imeobi Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an Igbo socio-cultural group, will be meeting today, Thursday, to review and take a final position on the 2023 presidency as it concerns Ndigbo.
The meeting which will hold at Ohanaeze Ndigbo National Secretariat, 7 Park Avenue, GRA, Enugu from 12pm will also discuss how to field a single aspirant for the presidential primaries of the two major political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party.
The National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, who confirmed the meeting of the highest decision-making organ of Ohanaeze, in an interview with journalists said the meeting would examine all the intricacies surrounding the 2023 presidency and the future of Nigeria
On the agenda of the meeting, he said, “It will focus mainly on the 2023 Presidency. At the end of the meeting, they (Imeobi Ohanaeze) will make a final resolution on the zoning of the presidency. The meeting will also talk about how to harmonise the various interests so that one aspirant will be presented in each of the two major political parties at the forthcoming presidential primaries.”
The threat to disown any indigene of the region came from the Igbo Elders Forum led by a former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, who said, on Wednesday, that any Igbo aspirant that supports an aspirant from a different zone would be disowned.
“The Igbo Elders want Nigerians and the whole world to note that the existence of Nigeria as a corporate entity may be seriously threatened by any attempt to deny the South, especially the South-East the opportunity to produce the next President in 2023,” he said.
Speaking on the Vice Presidency, Ezeife said, “It has come to our notice that some of our sons and daughters are colluding shamelessly with some unreasonable and dishonest Nigerians to sabotage our collective efforts to produce the next President of Nigeria of the South-East extraction.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum will not only pursue to a logical conclusion the sanctions of these shameless renegades and bootlickers, who plan to accept to be running mates to any presidential candidate not from the South as well as those who are working hard to sabotage our efforts masquerading as coordinators and promoters of presidential aspirants outside the South-East zone, but also curse them and their families publicly; we will visit them accordingly.”
