A Chieftain of the All progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, and Director-General of the Buhari South-East Youth Movement, BUSEYM, Engr. Nwabueze Onwuneme, has called on Igbo elites not to see President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, as stumbling blocks to the realisation of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction come 2023, but rather as Catalysts, who if well consulted, can play a major role for the emergence of an Igbo man as the President of Nigeria, come 2023.
Speaking during a Radio programme, the African Youths Leadership series programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, in London, Onwuneme when asked about the seeming attacks on both Leaders by some Igbo Politicians, and the dangers it portends to the 2023 quest to have an Igbo President, said that “it is unfortunate”.
He added that it is not the majority of Ndigbo that are making these allegations, but rather some very few elites; so, their actions and utterances should not be perceived as an attack on the two respected Leaders, by the generality of Ndigbo.
He stated that both Buhari and Tinubu have never paid lip service towards their love for Igbos, but have matched their expressions of love with verifiable actions, adding that, Buhari is building the Second Niger Bridge, which has gone more than 60 percent completion, among other projects.
On Tinubu’s love for the Ndigbo, Onwuneme pointed at his appointment of Igbos to his cabinet as the then Governor of Lagos State.
According to him, the two Leaders should not be disparaged by any well-meaning Igbo son. Onwuneme therefore, advised Igbo Politicians in opposition political parties, to stop projecting their partisan criticism as the position of the Ndigbo.
According to him, what Igbos need now is to engage, by means of dialogue, persuasion and strategic political planning, other tribes, and be ready to fight rationally and democratically to get it, because power they say is not given, but fought or worked for.
He also called on prominent Igbo sons, like former Governors Ogbonnaya Onu, Orji Uzor-Kalu, and genuine Igbo Leaders who, over the years, have built bridges of friendship and good network of political alliances, to use it to persuade and appeal on other zones to support this genuine cause of the 2023 Igbo Presidency.
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