By Michael Chukwuebuka, Reporting
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, more socio-cultural organizations have intensified advocacy in support of South East (Ndịgbo) to produce the next president of NigeNigeeb
The groups restated their stance during the launch of the Power Shift Movement and 40 million Ballot in Awka, on Wenesday, hosted by the president, Youths Off the Street Initiative, YOTSI, Comrade Kennedy Iyere.
Stonix News was informed that the President of Igbo World Assembly, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, said other geo-political zones in the country should give Ndịgbo total support to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in the spirit of fairness and equity.
Anakwenze noted that Ndịgbo are builders and could bring out the best in Nigerians with respect for constituted authorities.
He added that Igbo presidency would entrench strategic vision and more efficient national economic policy that would elevate the country to greater heights.
He maintained that an Igbo president would use his sense of industry and enterprising disposition to evolve creative planning and innovative programmes that would accelerate the overall development of the country as well as give all Nigerians a sense of belonging.
Also speaking, the Secretary General of apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Sola Ebiseni, who represented the Yoruba leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said the group was in support of the southeast producing the next president, but stressed the need for restructuring.
The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, who was represented by the group’s national publicity secretary, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, said the Niger Delta was in support of the southeast producing the successor to President Buhari, but asked that Ndịgbo should champion the course.
For the leader of the Tiv Nation, Chief Iorbee Ihagh, his people have agreed that the presidency should go to south and the southeast in particular.
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