The President of Ohaneze Igbo Women Organization Worldwide, Chief Hon. Mrs. Calista Nkiru Adimachukwu, has weighed in on the heated conversation the zoning arrangement for 2023 is brewing. Recall that early in the week, Southern Governors came out of their meeting and affirmed their resolve for a Southern president for 2023.
She went further to make a case for the Southeast. She also blasted the Northern Elders forum who said the South cannot for the north to relinquish the presidency. Here is the report in full.
Press Statement by The President of Ohaneze Igbo Women Organization Worldwide
The communique issued at the meeting of the governors of Southern Nigeria on the 5th of July, 2021 regarding the rotation of the presidency of Nigeria to the South in 2023 is a wonderful development regardless of the statement by Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed that the Southern governors forum cannot force the North to concede the 2023 presidency to the south.
For the past few years, I have made a case for a southern president of southeast extraction in 2023 and the restructuring of the Nigerian federation for an equitable Nigeria. Nigeria has different ethnic nationalities with diverse cultures and traditions, and it is impractical for one section of the country to dream of asserting dominance or become Lord over the other sections. Democracy demands equity and fair play.
Therefore I want to state categorically clear that the era of arrogant disposition on Nigerian political affairs by the self-acclaimed Northern Nigerian political gladiators is now over. The southern Nigerian governors’ forum’s decision on the Nigerian presidency in 2023 is a settled matter.
The current President, Mohamadu Buhari got the support of the south to become the president of Nigeria for his two terms in office. The North cannot produce Nigerian president without the support of the south based 33.on the Nigerian constitution.
But if the North finds the decision of the Southern governors not acceptable, they can go ahead and produce the president of Northern Nigeria.
The era of arrogant disposition by the Northern political class is now a defunct story. On behalf of the Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organization Worldwide, I commend the southern governors for their bold step and their stance.
Their recent decision would be remembered in history as an act of patriotism towards the sustainability of democracy in Nigeria.
Signed:
Chief Hon. Mrs. Calista Nkiru Adimachukwu, President General Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organization Worldwide.
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