Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated it is only interested in the 2023 presidency and pursuit of sovereign State by any group in the zone.<\/p>\n
The group maintained that it is a right to the Southeast zone, not a privilege to get the presidency in 2023.<\/p>\n
Ohaneze spoke Tuesday in Awka, Anambra State through its President in Anambra State, Chief Damian Okeke -Ogene, while briefing reporters after the group\u2019s meeting<\/p>\n
He said the leadership of Ohaneze has not mandated anyone or group to pursue actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra but Presidency of Igbo extraction.<\/p>\n
He said that some youths within the territory that make up the defunct Biafra Republic were restive and had made case for Biafra\u2019s restoration because of the gross marginalisation of the zone.<\/p>\n
According to Okeke \u2013Ogene: \u201cWe are pursuing Igbo president because the executive of Ohanaeze led by Nnia Nwodo has the mandate of Ndigbo to negotiate the Igbo position in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn\u2019t given a mandate for the Sovereign State of Biafra. That\u2019s why we are saying, give us what is due for us and Nigeria\u2019s president of Igbo extraction is what we are looking for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other aspect of IPOB is because our children seem to find out that Nigerians are not ready to give us what we want; we the elders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are now saying that if you\u2019re not going to answer my father, I am going to tell my father that I am going to be myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are two different things. Let me tell you, it is coming to a point that Igbo presidency is becoming a right; no more privilege because it is only the South East that has never tasted the presidency and we have been voting for everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated it is only interested in the 2023 presidency and pursuit of sovereign State by any group in the zone. The group maintained that it is a right to the Southeast zone, not a privilege to get the presidency in 2023. Ohaneze spoke Tuesday in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":28599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[604,609],"class_list":["post-28598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-igbo","tag-ndigbo"],"yoast_head":"\n