A second look at Igbo presidency - Punch Newspapers

Despite not being fully persuaded about the argument for an ethnic nominee for the President of Nigeria, one can understand and sympathise with the Igbo insistent outcry to provide Nigeria’s President in 2023.

Despite the North’s 47-year hold onto power that has not provided material comfort to their people in 65 years, the Northern political establishment still wants to cling to power.There is no guarantee that the Igbo, who are already economically well-off, will profit more if one of their own was president. Some Igbo, like Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe, give the impression that all they want is a restructured Nigeria and not quite an Igbo presidency.

He adds, “Any Southern candidate is playing the games of Fulani hegemony… Any Fulani in support of a South-West candidate is deceiving him.” Another argument, derived from the former, is that they feel as if the civil war that ended in 1970 is still ongoing and that the “No Victor, No Vanquished” pronouncement by Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, is hollow.

Observers say that the violence in the South-East is providing a good excuse for those who do not want a president of Igbo extraction. They think that an Igbo presidency could encourage breakaway tendencies, the same way cattle herders became more violent after Buhari became Nigeria’s president.

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I know believe everything is staged.. nothern Nigeria has been the headquarter of killing in Africa, yet there’s nothing like a second look before leadership was handed over to them.. laslas y’all will destroy this country and everyone will be on there own peaceful

If you like make it a hundred look, they will fail

Ojukwu contested for Nigerian president and lost in the east to a hausa fulani yar'adua.Some explanation required

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