The Ohanaeze Ndigo may have given up on the pursuit of Igbo Presidency in the next general elections billed to be conducted in 2019. A former President of the group, Dr. Dozie Ikedife while speaking to newsmen on Sunday advised all politicians from the South East region intending to contest the Presidential election in 2019 to shelve their ambition.
His comment is coming few days after the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, said APGA was considering the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, as its presidential flag bearer in the 2019 general elections.
Ikedife in a chat with Punch noted that the odds favor the North to produce the next president of the country. I won’t advise any Igbo to pick a form for the presidential race. It’s a waste to do so.
“APGA can go ahead and field any candidate from Igbo to vie for it. It has such an inalienable right to field anybody as its candidate in the election but I don’t know what makes them think that Obiano would win.
“The North has produced a president who has just done one term. But it is becoming a convention that any zone that produces a president does two terms. I don’t see why the APC should not want to go for two terms. When the North has had two terms following the
He called on the people of the region to support candidates from the North who will recognize the economic and infrastructure deficits in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones.
