2023: Abaribe Says Igbo Succeeding Buhari Is Non-Negotiable |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

Senate Minority Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, says come 2023, an Igbo must succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in office.

The Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District stressed that for an Igbo person to become Nigeria President in 2023 is non-negotiable.

Abaribe made this statement when he was Conferred with a Legacy Merit Award by the Imo State Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ

Abaribe who was represented at the event by his aide, Chijioke Ukoh, added that he would continue to advocate for fairness for the south-east.

He said not continuing with such advocacy would subject the Igbo to “second class citizens.”

The Senator advised the Igbo to remain firm and resolute” notwithstanding the challenges facing the region.

Abaribe’s comment has been in the front burner, with South-East leaders forming a coalition for this dream to come to reality.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex socio-cultural organisation in the south-east, had recently made a similar case, saying that Nigeria will be transformed if the next President  comes from the south-east.

“The exploits of Igbo sons and daughters both within and outside the country are indices of the cerebral capability and ingenuity of the people which Nigeria could exploit to advance its development,” Nnia Nwodo, the group’s president-general, had said.

“The Federal Government should stop marginalising and victimising the Igbo in the country so that the latent creative potentials could be”.