The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), a youth organization in the South East geopolitical zone, has rejected a bid by the Biafran Independent Movement (BIM) to back Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello’s presidential ambitions.
According to a statement released on Monday by the coalition’s President-General, Goodluck Ibem, the group’s founder, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has previously said that the group will back Bello for President of Nigeria in 2023.
The coalition questioned why Uwazuruike, who is campaigning for Biafra’s independence, would support a candidate from another geopolitical zone.
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COSEYL insisted that the South East must produce the successor of President Muhammadu Buhari to allow for equity and fairness, stressing that the region had suffered marginalization enough.
“2023 is the turn of the people of South East geo-political zone to produce the next president of Nigeria and it is not negotiable”, the statement added.
COSEYL advised Uwazuruike to “continue with his Biafran movement struggle and leave the business and politics of the Nigerian state alone. Uwazuruike should know that he cannot serve two Masters at the same time.
“There is no correlation between his group, the Nigerian state and the institution of the youths. He lacks the authority to speak on behalf of the youths and so what he said to Governor Yahaya Bello is purely his personal opinion on the presidency”.
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