{"id":63168,"date":"2022-04-15T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-tinubu-osinbajo-told-to-give-up-presidential-ambition-for-southeast"},"modified":"2022-04-15T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:17:55","slug":"2023-tinubu-osinbajo-told-to-give-up-presidential-ambition-for-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-tinubu-osinbajo-told-to-give-up-presidential-ambition-for-southeast","title":{"rendered":"2023: Tinubu, Osinbajo told to give up presidential ambition for Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An Anambra lawmaker, Dr Timothy Ifedioranma (APC-Njikoka \u2013 I) on Friday charged Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Tinubu to give up their presidential ambitions for the Southeast.<\/p>\n

Ifedioranma told newsmen in Awka that giving up their ambition was the way to the path of justice, equity and fairness.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cBoth Tinubu and Vice-President Osinbajo are citizens of this country and they are qualified to contest and occupy that position in this election.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I urge them as elder statesmen to toe the path of justice, equity and fairness by giving up that position for a South easterner to emerge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it was the turn of the Southwest after the annulment of the 1993 election and the death of Chief MKO Abiola, we supported them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had their fair share of being the president for eight years and vice-president for another eight years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Southeast has not had its turn of being the president of this country and it has sacrificed by supporting the North, the Southwest and the South-South.\u2019\u2019 He said and queried: `Why is it a problem for them to support the Southeast?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The lawmaker urged political parties to give their tickets to the Southeast and allow the electorate decide the best candidate to occupy the position of the president.<\/p>\n

Ifedioranma said that electing an Igbo as president in 2023 would quell the agitations for separation in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur people are angry that they are being marginalised and treated as second class citizens in a nation to which we belong and are part.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there were agitations in the South-South, Dr Goodluck Jonathan was thrown up as vice-president and the agitations stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the military annulled Chief MKO Abiola\u2019s election in 1993 and he died in incarceration, it became clear that there was the need to make amends and pacify the Southwest, and we all supported it by electing Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor fairness, equity and justice, we need to deal with the structural problem by throwing up an Igbo man and all these agitations, demand for separation and insecurity will stop, and peace will be restored to Nigeria,\u2019\u2019 Ifedioranma stressed.<\/p>\n

Tinubu and Osinbajo, who are both of Southwest extraction, already declared their interests to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the APC.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. An Anambra lawmaker, Dr Timothy Ifedioranma (APC-Njikoka \u2013 I) on Friday charged Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Tinubu to give up their presidential ambitions for the Southeast. Ifedioranma told newsmen in Awka that giving up their ambition was the way to the path of justice, equity and fairness. 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