{"id":2275,"date":"2019-01-12T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2019-01-12T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:42:09","slug":"yoruba-deserves-2023-presidency-igbo-are-not-serious-amaechi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yoruba-deserves-2023-presidency-igbo-are-not-serious-amaechi","title":{"rendered":"Yoruba deserves 2023 presidency, Igbo are not serious \u2013 Amaechi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazurike Amaechi, has noted that Igbo people were indifferent over the prospects of producing the next President in 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CPfWk7rU6N8CFX5lFQgdWYQMHg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_Adsense_1_0__container__\">Amaechi told New Telegraph in Awka, Anambra State yesterday that power is not given on a platter of gold.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The elder statesman noted that the South West has shown stronger interest in the position.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CPjWk7rU6N8CFX5lFQgdWYQMHg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_Adsense_2_0__container__\">According to him, \u201cPower is not given on a platter of gold and the idea that Igbos will produce the next President of Nigeria in 2023 is not sacrosanct because there is no section in Nigerian construction that talked about rotation of power.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Yorubas are serious about this and they are working hard to get it and I expect our people in Igbo land to work hard and show seriousness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur politicians in the South-East should wake up and show that we are interested but the Yoruba are more serious than us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf tomorrow the position goes to the South West we do not have anybody to blame because they deserve it going by the way they are fighting the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazurike Amaechi, has noted that Igbo people were indifferent over the prospects of producing the next President in 2023. 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The elder statesman noted that the South West has shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[250,173],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-amaechi","tag-parties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yoruba deserves 2023 presidency, Igbo are not serious \u2013 Amaechi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yoruba-deserves-2023-presidency-igbo-are-not-serious-amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yoruba deserves 2023 presidency, Igbo are not serious \u2013 Amaechi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazurike Amaechi, has noted that Igbo people were indifferent over the prospects of producing the next President in 2023. 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