By Bimbo Ogunnaike
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has agreed to allow the South-South region to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 presidency, with a proviso that the successor should be a Christian.
The Elders said giving 2023 presidency to the north will tear Nigeria apart, as the expiration of Buhari’s tenure completes North’s two tenures.
Commenting on the developmenty, Ohanaeze in a statement issued on Monday and signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide agreed to support the move by South-South, warning that any move by the government to hand over the presidency to the North will lead to a civil war.
The Igbo group called on Nigerians to unite and produce a Christian President from the South to ensure progress and security, stressing that ‘It is an invitation to anarchy and suicidal for a Muslim North or Muslim South to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari”
“In a multi-facets democracy like us where religion and ethnicity play a major role in our Democracy, OYC advocates in 2023, that Nigeria should produce a Christian President from the South to ensure Progress and Security.
“Its an invitation to anarchy and suicidal for a Muslim North or Muslim South to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari but definitely a Christian southerner is what is ideal.
“We advise Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe to follow up with the footsteps of the leader of Niger Delta, and Elder Statesman, Pa Edwin Clark who had declared support for 2023 Igbo Presidency Project for Peace, Justice, and Fairness, apart from Goodluck Jonathan, every other South/South aspirants are entitled to the Constitutional provision of two terms.so OYC urges Sara-igbe to support Igbo Presidency Project as he observed that Igbos had never been in the saddle 50 Years after the Biafra War.
“OYC wishes to correct an erroneous but false impressions, that North doubts Igbo’s sincerity of Igbo Presidency project over Biafra, as a myth of falsehood created by proponents of instability and undemocratic anarchists fanning the embers of disintegration and unity of our beloved country through promotion of hate and Malice, with evil intent aimed at halting a Nigerian President of Igbo stock 2023 through spread of lies against Igbos, who are more Nigerians than tribe with investments worth over 221 trillion Naira in the North.
“We wish to remind Sara-igbe that it was resource control agitation been championed by Niger Delta that led to the compensation for Jonathan’s 6 years presidency. It was the activities of Boko Haram and Insecurity in the North that motivated Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, it was NADECO and OPC militia activities that led to Obasanjo’s Presidency in 1999, so definitely Igbos are looking for Igbo Presidency 2023, and Biafra agitation which includes South-South region is now championed by their prominent son, Alhaji Mujihad Asari Dokubo, who is the Supreme Leader of the Biafra National Council, definitely, it’s the turn of South-South region to support a Nigerian President of Igbo stock 2023 for posterity sake.”
