2023: South-East APC Restates Interest In Presidency, Berates Tinubu

The convener of The Southeast Integrity Group, Dr. Chinedu Ogbuagu has described as ridiculous and absurd the claim by the National Cordinator of the Tinubu-Not-Negotiable 2023, TNN, Muri Okunola that APC will lose if Igbos get 2023 Presidential ticket.

The APC chieftain said that such a claim is not consistent with the party’s belief in national unity.

Recall that Mutiu Okunola had said in an interview published on January 12 2020 admitted that “the only reason why the country is still together is because of the way power is being rotated, describing it as sacrosanct.

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Wondering if anyone contemplated that power must rotate to Tinubu, he noted that the national coordinator of the party is from the same Southern geo-political zone that produced president(Obasanjo) 1999 to 2007 and vice president(Osinbajo)2015 to 2023.

Ogbuagu noted that each time the South produced the President, it was with the massive support of the Southeast, despite the fact it is the only zone that has neither produced the president nor vice-president.

He said that by personalizing Nigeria’s presidency to the ambition of one man, Okunola’s is only being greedy and selfish.

“Every selfless and patriotic Nigerian knows that presidential power must not only rotate to the South in 2023, but should also be zoned to the Southeast geopolitical zone that has not produced a president, not even vice president since 1999. As APC members, we of the Southeast Intergrity Group obviously want a Southeast APC member to become that president.” He said.

Ogbuagu dismissed the self-serving and distorted political and electoral calculations of groups like TNN 2023 and asserted that to the contrary, Southeast voters remains the largest, though with latent voting block spread across all states of the federation.