Ohanaeze Group Rejects PDP’s No-Zoning Formula, Insists On Igbo President Over 2023

 

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has rejected the Bala Mohammed-led committee report of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which recommended that the 2023 presidential ticket of the party should be thrown open to all sections of the country.

Ohanaeze said that the Mohammed-led committee report was capable of impugning the unity of the country and asked for the withdrawal of the report that it described as unconscionable.
The Igbo parent body noted that it was committed to Nigeria producing a President of Igbo extraction in 2023, adding that it will willingly identify with any group that is ready for the bargain.

In a declaration, on Thursday, National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Alex Ogbonnia said: “Ohanaeze views the report by means of the Bala Mohammed led committee as maximum despicable, un-reflective and unconscionable. It could be very worrisome that a few extraordinarily positioned Nigerians who have benefited a lot from the team spirit of the united states would be willing to decisions and actions so one can in addition inflame the passions of the patient but aggrieved part of the united states.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Nigerians agreed at the rotation of the presidency between the North and the South; in which case it's far the turn of the South after the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari. For clarity functions, both the South West and the South-South had both taken their turns within the folks of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan respectively. It is rather very unpatriotic and a trifle on the sensibilities of the Igbo for the committee to even advocate the rotation of the presidency to the North East in the first example and open to each part of Nigeria as a chief slight.

“It is worrying that all the indignities, perceived and real, that the South East suffer within the present day dispensation are the final results of the Igbo guide to the PDP on account that 1999. It is on record that in 1999, the Igbo have been in hock with the PDP through which Chief Olusegun Obasanjo emerged the President of Nigeria; equal in 2003 and the following elections in Nigeria.
“On the opposite hand, the Igbo had invested a good deal political capital within the PDP best to be betrayed by way of its apparent loss of principles. The leadership of the PDP is recommended to retract the comment made through Alh Bala Mohammed and countermand the content of the obnoxious committee record in the interest of the birthday celebration.

“Let it's recognised that Ndigbo does no longer wax so eloquent on political events. The Igbo is certain to advertise the birthday party that caters to the interest of our humans. It is instructive that Senator Ali Ndume, a chieftain of the All Peoples Congress (APC) is the various distinguished Northerners that canvass for zoning the Nigerian presidency to the South East for the 2023 presidential election. Other outstanding APC chieftains are surprisingly devoted to the realisation of this mission and we are able to be very overjoyed to paintings with them inside the universal hobby of Ndigbo.

“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by using Ambassador Professor George Obiozor is devoted to a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction and there's no going returned on it. It need to be mentioned that the Igbo network transcends geographical space and the large Igbo goodwill and assets internationally may be mobilized to acquire this fairness-stimulated mission. In the phrases of Obiozor, the Igbo are a assured set of people who do not disguise their emotions without difficulty irrespective of the results.

“He added that in case you deny the Igbo justice, be equipped for righteous indignation, diminishing authority, denial of the legitimacy of governance and loyalty. The Igbo religion and self assurance is based totally on what you deny the Igbo inside the morning, they are able to supply to themselves within the evening through difficult paintings and perseverance. We are undaunted.”