Scramble For VP, Suspicion Rock South East Over 2023 Election

 

• If We Are Not Careful, We May End Up With VP Slot – Okonkwo 

• We Are Thankful To Kalu For Premiering Bi-sectarian Meeting – SEFORP 

• Movement For Actualising President Of South East Extraction In 2023 Has Begun – Okorie 

• It's South East's Turn To Produce President – Osita Okechukwu 

Disloyalties, disunity, shared doubt, and double-crossing seem to have begun diffusing the uproar for a leader of Igbo extraction come 2023 passing by signals exuding from the zone. 

In particular, personal stakes, just as the absence of cooperative energy/solidarity of direction among political first class from the district, many demand, would be Ndigbo's most prominent fixing the extent that South East getting the plum work is concerned. 

Inside the most recent fourteen days, three partners' gatherings have occurred with every one of them overlooking basic issues identifying with making the goal plausible. 

After All Progressives Congress (APC) partners from the zone met in Owerri, Imo State on December 30, 2020, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held its zonal assembly meeting in Awka, Anambra State, trailed by a bi-sectarian pioneers' gathering at Camp Neya, Kalu's nation home in Igbere, Abia State. 

The different gatherings united various camps adjusted for unique purposes, to such an extent that each gathering was viewed as working across purposes with the other in regards to the Igbo administration project. 

Annoyed by the endeavor to railroad them into the bi-hardliner gathering assembled by the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the southeast Governors Forum (SEGF) drove by APC clan leader and legislative head of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, declined participation. 

While the lead representatives boycotted the zonal bi-sectarian gathering, they held a zoom gathering where they separated themselves from the Igbere conference, yet in addition censured the consideration of their names as conveners when they were not welcome to the gathering. 

The lead representatives' stalemate empowered theories that the bi-sectarian gathering was a plan by National Assembly individuals from the zone to graph an alternate way to the Igbo Presidency, even as sources claimed that the gathering was Kalu's plan to advance a potential Ahmed Lawan Presidency that would have him as bad habit official competitor. 

In the notification of the gathering, Kalu, previous Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and legislative leaders of the five South East states were recorded as conveners. 

As indicated by the coordinators, who revealed that the gathering was to commence by noontime, the occasion was to give a stage to individuals from the APC, PDP, APGA, and other ideological groups to put their thoughts on the table. 

In any case, Umahi, who addressed writers soon after the virtual gathering, clarified that the lead representatives were not piece of those that arranged, or met the bi-hardliner gathering, and lamented that their names were incorporated as conveners without their authorization. 

"The Governors of South East grimace at such demeanor and would need to disassociate themselves from such a gathering. In the event that there ought to be such a gathering, which they feel is extremely vital, the lead representatives should be believed to be educated and be a vital part of assembling such a conference. They firmly feel that Ohanaeze is in a situation to talk on such issues. 

"Along these lines, they need to state that the lead representatives are not included and they urged every one of their kin to blacklist such a gathering," he expressed. 

Other than the South East lead representatives' grouse, a few partners in the zone are dubious that the gathering was a long way from actualising the fantasy of the South East, yet restricted to the individual political interests of the conveners. 

The wronged partners similarly question the intelligence behind holding a particularly significant gathering at Kalu's home, and not in one of the public authority offices dispersed across the zone. Moreover, they additionally question the inability to convey along a few different pioneers in the zone. 

"I am not a messenger of destruction, but rather I have my true questions about the goals of the individuals who gathered the Igbere meeting. In the event that they were not keen on what they would actually acquire, I question what might have provoked them to assemble the conference," Chief Ikechukwu Okonkwo, a social pundit stated, adding: "truly none of them is keen on turning out to be president. They will like to play behind another up-and-comer and that is the compassion they are attempting to work in the appearance of requesting an Igbo president. It is with the end goal that, in the event that we are not cautious, we may wind up accomplishing the bad habit official opening in 2023 because of the exercises of our chiefs." 

Okonkwo forewarned the individuals to be aware of what he portrayed as "distraught surge" into the decision party by southeast government officials, focusing on that, "every one of them that hosts moved starting with one gathering then onto the next has done so on the grounds that there is a guarantee of what to get in 2023." 

Advocating his position that those at the Igbere meeting had just an individual plan to push in 2023, he stated: "Why none of them has shown interest to strive for the administration? Why they are holding up until ideological groups surrender their passes toward the South East? Has Tinubu shrouded his aims to run in 2023? Has he not been participating in counsels the nation over? It might even intrigue you to realize that the gathering may have individuals working for him." 

He proceeded: "Opportunity has arrived for Ndigbo to choose what they need from the nation. It is these pioneers that we are admiring lead the way and position Igbo properly in the plan of things. The previous they understand that they can't assume a supporting role always, the better for the individuals of the southeast zone." 

In any case, for the National Coordinator of the southeast for Presidency 2023 Movement (SEFORP2023), Rev. Okechukwu Obioha, a greater amount of such gatherings ought to be supported as "it has made the missions of our gathering lighter. 

"We are expressing gratitude toward Kalu for debuting this magnificent gathering and expressing gratitude toward the pioneers for tolerating the message that SEFORP has been spreading over the most recent two years. That gathering has set a limit for endeavors that we have made up until now and has given us certainty that our work has not been to no end, and in the event that our kin have acknowledged us, at that point we would now be able to jump start out completely." 

Obioha added that SEFORP remained to profit by the gathering as participants "embraced our message that the two ideological groups ought to surrender their official openings toward the South East. Thus, this is one of the examples of overcoming adversity of our missions, and it makes it lighter for us, and the heads of our international zone to meet up regardless of their belief systems and pursuits. It is a hint of something to look forward to. We are likewise asking them that since SEFORP has huge followership in Nigeria, and in the Diaspora, the opportunity has arrived for the gathering to be welcome to such gatherings." 

THE National Chairman of the dead United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, while responding to the claim that Ndigbo has never conceded to any issue, and that the journey for the administration in 2023 was at that point making separation points, said such stance was generally uncharitable. 

He stated: "There has never been a period in our new history that the individuals of the southeast international zone have shown the solidarity of direction on a typical reason, as being done on the 2023 South East's offered for the administration. 

"The gathering that held at Igbere, in Abia State on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, across partisan divisions was remarkable and a significant achievement in the archives of the southeast political excursion in Nigeria. Some basic partners, in clear eruption, took out an ad in a public paper to remove themselves from the gathering because they didn't have the foggiest idea about the plan of the gathering. It is conceivable that the conveners missed the mark in specific parts of discussions that they made. This in any case, the gathering was a great achievement. The dispatch delivered toward the finish of the gathering set up the way that the goal of the gathering was honorable, charitable, and not intended to advance the political yearning of any one individual. I am persuaded that ensuing gatherings will even be more fruitful as seen slips, particularly regarding discussion, satisfactory notification, and exposure will be dealt with. We need everyone ready. Interestingly, a development to actualise the Nigerian President of southeast extraction in 2023 has started. I am significantly glad to be essential for it." 

THE President, International Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights Initiative (ISPHRI), Comrade Osmond Ugwu, in his comments stated: "If there is any implication such that the South East isn't talking with one voice, such hint might be exuding from naughty legislators from the other separation to dishonor certifiable yearning of the Igbo public. In the other option, such hint may be coming from some Igbo siblings from the South-South, who are situating themselves to assume control over the position if the significant gatherings ultimately zone the workplace to the Igbo ethnicity in Nigeria." 

THE Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, who said he was not contradicted to the solidarity of Igbo individuals, notwithstanding, focused on that it was something troublesome for the individuals of the zone to be joined on an issue, focusing on that no ethnic gathering in Nigeria had truly being joined on issues concerning them. 

"For example, I am one of the devotees of President Buhari. From commencement, to be true, he never had the help of a huge fragment of the northern tip top in the four races traversing 2003 to 2015. His base was for the most part the Talakawas or the majority. I am additionally mindful that when His Excellency, Alhaji Shehu Shagari of favored memory was running for the administration, he didn't appreciate the help, all things considered. Boss Olusegun Obasanjo's affection misfortune with the Yoruba is amazing. Subsequently no reference to hold tight, as Chief M.K.O. Abiola of the favored memory defea