A former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said that the South-East was ready to kneel down, even prostrate and beg in order to get the opportunity to become Nigeria’s President come 2023.
Ezeife said this at the United for Better Nigeria Initiative National Convention in Abuja on Saturday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the elder statesman said it was the right time for Ndigbo to produce the next President of the country.
He, however, pointed out that Presidency is not given to anyone but people have to work and show that they really merit the position.
Ezeife noted that one of the ways to put a South Easterner in power come 2023 was for the region to swallow its pride and start begging every other region for the presidential seat.
“So I found Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and other groups in this place talking about the need for federal character. If you do it that way, there will be unity, if there is fairness, equity, justice, you will have unity and progress,” he said.
“In the absence of those, you see where we are now. It is not a matter of to give us president, we don’t give, you have to work for it, the Igbo does not prostrate.
“The Igbo man does not kneel down but this time, we are prepared to kneel down to every part of Nigeria, every group, every ethnic group in Nigeria, we are prepared to even prostrate because we believe in this country.”
By John Owen Nwachukwu
Source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/12/05/2023-presidency-igbos-will-kneel-prostrate-beg-ezeife/
The Presiding Bishop, House of God Int’l Church, Athan Azubuike has claimed the Igbos will always play second fiddle and may never produce the president of Nigeria even when they have all it takes to lead the country in 2023.
The cleric said this at an event for young clergy in Owerri.
He insisted that the average Igbo man is a trader and not a politician as they do not have the skills to mobilise people at the grassroots
He said,” One thing about an Igbo man is that an average Igbo person is a trader only interested in profit-making, we are not interested in working. We are not interested in the grassroots. Once it’s a few months to elections, Igbo politicians will start visiting churches in remote villages, that is the sense of a trader, not a politician.”
”Let me be very frank with all on why Igbos may never produce a president but play second fiddle by asking who is coming out in Igbo land? You’ll tell me it’s Rochas Okorocha, Anyim Pius Anyim, Sam Ohuabunwa among others but since Pius became the Senate President, how many times have you seen him and others in Imo State. The presidency is not a local government election .”
He said,” Today, people are talking about the 2023 presidency and I ask those Igbo politicians claiming to be interested in the race what have they been doing to galvanize the grassroots.”
He further queried,” Why is it that an Igbo man is only interested in meeting people only when it’s a few months to any election. It’s arrant nonsense. If the program organized by Mezie Imo Clergy Forum today was held in Yoruba land or the North, this place will be filled with great personalities but here the reverse is the case”
” A good politician works before he shows his ambition. A good politician works before galvanizing for election, that is why I said an Igbo man is a trader, not a politician.”
“As a presidential aspirant, you need to move around, increase your horizon and coordinate with other zones even before now.”
By Tunji Adedeji
Sourcehttps://dailypost.ng/2021/12/05/2023-why-igbos-may-never-produce-president-of-nigeria-bishop-azubuike/
The Osun State Police Command has revealed the identity of its personnel who fatally shot Kabiru Babai, a rig operator with the Shekeenah Zelter global concept at Ota-Efun.
The Police also confirmed the arrest of the culprit, Sergeant, Moses Samuel.
Sergeant Moses Samuel, it was reported, fatally shot the rig operator at Ota-Efun area of Osogbo, on Friday, December 3, 2021.
The arrest was disclosed in a statement made available to DAILY POST by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Command, Yemisi Opalola on Sunday.
By Francis Ezediuno
Source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/12/05/osun-police-reveal-identity-of-kabiru-babais-killer/
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has admitted that President Muhammadu Buhari appointed more northerners into critical national positions than the Southern part of the country.
Its spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, while baring his mind on some National issues admitted that President Muhammadu Buhari is a creation of Southern political forces in 2015.
He said President was presented by Southern politicians as an alternative to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The CNG spokesman claimed that to everyone knowledge, President Buhari was not the candidate for the North in 2015, but that he was packaged by southern political forces right from the APC contraption to his victory at the primaries.
He explained that when Buhari) was presented by the South as the only alternative to Jonathan, the North, which was groaning under the burden of Boko Haram bombs and bullets at that time, was left with no option.
Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said the South had benefitted more from the Buhari presidency than the North.
The CNG said, “We all can testify that the North has been the major casualty of the policies of the Buhari administration while the South is the major beneficiary. As far as the North is concerned, Buhari was not the candidate for the North but an arrangement made by the South to suit certain interests.”
He is of the view that appointing more northerners in positions should not be used to measure the prosperity of the people.
“This (appointment of northerners into critical positions) cannot be a yardstick for judging a people’s development or prosperity.”
Suleiman explained that with all the propaganda about the lopsidedness in Buhari’s appointments into key security positions, the North continues to face the severest security situation than all the other regions?
He said being a northerner in the office does not translate to preference in terms of service delivery, claiming that the positions could be occupied by any other region or tribe.
By Amos Tauna
Source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/12/05/coalition-of-northern-groups-admit-lopsided-appointments-by-president-buhari/
