Group urges southeast to support Buhari’s re-election
- The BSO commends President Buhari for giving a befitting burial to Alex Ekwueme who served the country meritoriously as vice-president and in other capacities
- The group thanks the president for renaming the Federal University in Ebonyi state after the late elder statesman
- APC chieftain, Orji Uzor Kalu, urges people of the southeast to support President Buhari and his re-election bid in 2019
The Buhari Support Organisation, Enugu state chapter, has urged people of the southeast to show appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari for the befitting burial he gave second republic vice-president, Alex Ekwueme, by supporting his re-election bid.
The group in a statement on Sunday, February 4, by its publicity secretary, Chibueze Eze, maintained that voting Buhari for a second term in 2019 will guarantee a president of Igbo extraction in 2023, the Punch reports.
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The BSO commended the president for giving a befitting burial to Alex Ekwueme who served the country meritoriously as vice-president and in other capacities.
It thanked Buhari for renaming the Federal University in Ebonyi state after the late elder statesman, to immortalise him.
“We thank President Muhammadu Buhari for not only giving Ekwueme a befitting burial, but for also flying him to London for medical attention and capping it with renaming the Federal University in Ebonyi State after him,” the BSO said.
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Meanwhile, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Orji Uzor Kalu, has expressed optimism that someone of Igbo descent would be president in 2023 after President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term.
Kalu also stated that it is possible for him to be in Aso Rock if he is alive and in good health as he understands Nigeria’s macro and micro economics.
The former governor of Abia state made the statement when speaking at the burial of former vice president, Alex Ekwueme.
Kalu who urged the Igbo to support Buhari and his re-election to achieve the dream, said an Igbo president will emerge in 2023, and not 2019 when many Igbo would have loved it to happen.
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