The Igbo Elders Consultative Forum (IECF) has stated that the next president of Nigeria must come from their geopolitical zone.
They also warned to punish any Igbo politician who takes the position of presidential running partner for someone from outside the South-East zone.
Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the forum’s chairman and former governor of Anambra State, revealed this on Wednesday.
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Ezeife stated categorically that the South-East must either be permitted to produce Nigeria’s next president in 2023 or the area would leave the country.
He said, “Emboldened by the increasing demand and support by credible and patriotic Nigerians for power to shift to the South in 2023, the Igbo Elders Forum hereby encourages visionary, credible and creative presidential materials of South-East zone to declare their intension for Presidency and pursue it with every sense of seriousness, vigour and commitment.
“We are very serious about this directive. Do not mind those unserious bootlickers who are angling to be running mates to candidates from other parts of the country, as the Igbos will not take it lightly with any of our sons or daughters who accept to be running mates to any person outside the South-East zone in 2023.
“It is either we are allowed to produce the president of this country in 2023 to change the appalling narrative of continued decay, poverty, insecurity, poor governance, corruption and maladministration in Nigeria or out of it. No half measure, as serious sanctions will be visited on any Igbo man or woman that sabotages this noble and patriotic decision of our people to provide for Nigeria a credible, visionary and creative president.
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“Legally, morally, and strategically, it is the turn of the South-East to produce the next president of the country as the other zones have been given the opportunity to serve this country in that capacity.”
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