Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation says it is only interested in Igbo 2023 presidency and not the pursuit of sovereign State by any group in the Southeast in what appears as a spite on Nnamdi Kanu.
Anaedoonline.ng reports that Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a secessionist group seeking to break away from Nigeria to get a secure a sovereign State identified as “Biafra Republic.”
This online news platform understands that Ohanaeze clarified its position on Biafra and Igbo 2023 Presidency through its President in Anambra State, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene while briefing reporters after the group’s meeting on Tuesday in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
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The Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation maintained that it is a right to the Southeast zone, not a privilege to get the presidency in 2023, adding that the leadership of Ohaneze has not mandated anyone or group to pursue actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra but Presidency of Igbo extraction.
Okeke-Ogene said that some youths within the territory that make up the defunct Biafra Republic were restive and had made case for Biafra’s restoration because of the gross marginalisation of the zone.
His words: “We are pursuing Igbo president because the executive of Ohanaeze led by Nnia Nwodo has the mandate of Ndigbo to negotiate the Igbo position in Nigeria.
“He wasn’t given a mandate for the Sovereign State of Biafra. That’s why we are saying, give us what is due for us and Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction is what we are looking for.
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“The other aspect of IPOB is because our children seem to find out that Nigerians are not ready to give us what we want; we the elders.
“They are now saying that if you’re not going to answer my father, I am going to tell my father that I am going to be myself.
“They are two different things. Let me tell you, it is coming to a point that Igbo presidency is becoming a right; no more privilege because it is only the South East that has never tasted the presidency and we have been voting for everybody.
“So, the younger ones are agitating that Nigerians are not ready to answer us.
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“If they are sure that Nigerians are going to answer us, I believe that they will calm down. Nigeria is for all of us.”
The Anambra President of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo vowed that Ndigbo would not relent until 2023 presidency is achieved.
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